Re: [Nix-dev] Depending on Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool

2012-07-09 Thread Shea Levy
On Jul 8, 2012, at 11:46 PM, Eelco Dolstra wrote: > Hi, > > On 07/07/12 09:55, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> Golden Rule: >> >> Never ever add a dependency on Autoconf, Automake, or Libtool, unless >> you’re confident that you cannot do otherwise at all. >> >> The point of these tools is pr

Re: [Nix-dev] [***SPAM***] [ANN] Guix, functional package management from Guile

2012-07-09 Thread Sander van der Burg - EWI
Awesome experiment Ludovic! Actually, I had some "crazy ideas" in the past as well. For example, to develop an "internal DSL" for Nix in Scala (no specific reason why it's useful, but oh well) From: nix-dev-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl [nix-dev-boun...

[Nix-dev] [***SPAM***] Re: Depending on Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool

2012-07-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Eelco Dolstra skribis: > Maybe a better solution, given the track record of the Autotools with respect > to > backwards compatibility, is that packages should depend on a particular > version > of the Autotools (e.g. "automake_1_11"). Agreed. > To encourage that we should remove the "aut

Re: [Nix-dev] [***SPAM***] [ANN] Guix, functional package management from Guile

2012-07-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hey, Sander van der Burg - EWI skribis: > Awesome experiment Ludovic! Thanks. :-) > Actually, I had some "crazy ideas" in the past as well. For example, > to develop an "internal DSL" for Nix in Scala (no specific reason why > it's useful, but oh well) Yeah, I believe embedded DSLs have

Re: [Nix-dev] Nix Hackfest 22-26th August (was Tentative NIx Hackfest in Augsburg (or Munich): July 6th-9th)

2012-07-09 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 00:11:46 +0200, Cillian de Róiste wrote: > Hi, > > I've added a wiki page for this one too: > https://nixos.org/wiki/Nix_Hackfest:_2012-07_20th_to_22nd > > > On 07/03/2012 05:46 PM, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > > (Snip) > > > I'm currently on EuroPython in Florence and could

Re: [Nix-dev] [***SPAM***] [ANN] Guix, functional package management from Guile

2012-07-09 Thread Sander van der Burg - EWI
Hehe, the good ol' internal vs external DSL debate In my opinion, the good thing about an experiment like this, is to show how people can utilise Nix to solve their deployment issues, instead of developing yet-another-specialised-package-manager-for-a-particular-programming-language-or-envir

Re: [Nix-dev] Nix Hackfest 22-26th August (was Tentative NIx Hackfest in Augsburg (or Munich): July 6th-9th)

2012-07-09 Thread mail.lastlog.de
Sounds great - Original message - > On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 00:11:46 +0200, Cillian de Róiste > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've added a wiki page for this one too: > > https://nixos.org/wiki/Nix_Hackfest:_2012-07_20th_to_22nd > > > > > > On 07/03/2012 05:46 PM, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > > > >

Re: [Nix-dev] Nix Hackfest 22-26th August (was Tentative NIx Hackfest in Augsburg (or Munich): July 6th-9th)

2012-07-09 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:47:39 +0200, "mail.lastlog.de" wrote: > Sounds great updated wiki > - Original message - > > On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 00:11:46 +0200, Cillian de Róiste > > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've added a wiki page for this one too: > > > https://nixos.org/wiki/Nix_Hackfest:_

Re: [Nix-dev] Nix Hackfest 22-26th August (was Tentative NIx Hackfest in Augsburg (or Munich): July 6th-9th)

2012-07-09 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:36:50 +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:47:39 +0200, "mail.lastlog.de" wrote: > > Sounds great > > updated wiki this one: https://nixos.org/wiki/Nix_Hackfest:_2012-07_20th_to_22nd Also I announced the hackfest to CCC-Munich. Whenever I was talking

[Nix-dev] NIX at Hacker's On Planet Earth

2012-07-09 Thread Florian Friesdorf
Hi, I'm attending HOPE 9 [1] and will promote NIX there. In case somebody is in the vicinity, I'm in NYC July 9th -> 16th. regards flo [1] http://www.hopenumbernine.net/ -- Florian Friesdorf GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 Jabber/XMPP: f...@chaoflow.net IRC: cha