I think people should write more stuff. Then it will disappear from the
frontpage really quickly.
From: nix-dev-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl [nix-dev-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl]
on behalf of Vladimír Čunát [vcu...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2014
Hello Nixers,
Recently I had to do couple of development tasks on *cough cough* MS Windows.
Unfortunately, Nix did not seem to work on it anymore, so I have decided revive
the Cygwin support. I had to make a few subtle modifications to the Nix package
manager, such as including cstdlib at
, 2014 3:15 PM
To: Sander van der Burg - EWI
Cc: nix-...@cs.uu.nl
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] Nix/Nixpkgs on Cygwin
Did you run into https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/19?
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Sander van der Burg - EWI
s.vanderb...@tudelft.nlmailto:s.vanderb...@tudelft.nl wrote:
Hello
Hi,
Interesting blog post that reminds me of some stuff I was working on years ago.
In one of my research case studies, I actually had to build a Maven project in
Nix to also make it deployable with Disnix. Since Maven and Nix don't really
work well with each other (because Maven does
Hi,
I'm still using Node.js at the moment, mostly for internal projects of the
company I'm currently working for. If nobody else is planning to take
maintainership, then I'm probably the best person to do it, since I'm still
regularly using npm2nix and it's actually quite useful for us.
And
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on behalf of Colin Putney [co...@wiresong.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 6:55 PM
To: nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] NiJS package manager
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Sander van der Burg - EWI
s.vanderb...@tudelft.nlmailto:s.vanderb
Oh really?
Too bad I missed it! haha
From: nix-dev-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl [nix-dev-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl]
on behalf of Vladimír Čunát [vcu...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 8:57 PM
To: nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl
Subject: Re:
Hello Nixers,
After a year of hard work, I proudly want to present you NiJS: the asynchronous
package manager.
In NiJS, you can use the more popular, innovating and future proof JavaScript
language to specify package build specifications while still having most of the
useful goodies that Nix
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on behalf of Ludovic Courtès [l...@gnu.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 1:58 PM
To: nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] NiJS package manager
Hi Sander!
Sander van der Burg - EWI s.vanderb...@tudelft.nl skribis:
After a year of hard work, I proudly want
Hello everbody,
It seems that my blog post caused quite a bit of discussion, which I really
appreciate!
I have decided to update my blog post with some additional notes based on the
discussion:
http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2014/04/asynchronous-package-management-with.html
I'll be there as well tomorrow. Hope to see you guys there!
best,
Sander
From: nix-dev-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl [nix-dev-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl]
on behalf of Joachim Schiele [j...@lastlog.de]
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 7:06 PM
To:
Hi,
When trying to evaluate any package (such as GNU Hello):
$ nix-build 'nixpkgs' -A hello
I get the following error:
user-thrown exception: the package ‘gcc-4.8.2’ in «unknown-file» is not
supported on ‘x86_64-darwin’
Conferences-iMac:examples sander$ mcedit
you were also involved in the earlier package attempts ;)
From: Aristid Breitkreuz [arist...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 2:49 AM
To: Sander van der Burg - EWI
Cc: nix-...@cs.uu.nl
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] Deploying Steam in NixOS
Hi Sander
Hello Nixers seeking some entertainment!
I also did an attempt to make Steam working in NixOS. I have used a chroot
approach and for me it seems to work fine. I was capable of deploying and
running Half-Life, Half Life 2, Portal and Counter Strike and they all seem to
work fine on both on my
Hi everybody,
I'd like to inform you that I have printed my PhD dissertation and that I have
put it online. It involves distributed software deployment and various tools
part of the Nix project.
My dissertation can be obtained from my homepage:
Hello everybody,
Today I was (again) struggling a bit with getting nodejs to work on Darwin. One
of the things that make it so hard/annoying is the fact that V8 (the JavaScript
engine) uses some kind of weird/stupid meta-build system called gyp
(http://code.google.com/p/gyp) developed by
Hi everyone,
Lately, I'm using Node.js and I wanted to create a package that requires some
of the NodeJS modules that we have defined in node-packages.nix. However, when
I add them to buildInputs, they cannot be found.
Of course, I could set the NODE_PATH environment variable in every package
I've just managed to renew my passport, so it seems that I can also be there.
Who else is going?
-- Sander
From: nix-dev-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl [nix-dev-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl]
on behalf of Mathijs Kwik [math...@bluescreen303.nl]
Sent:
Yes,
It's possible to use the Nix package manager on Mac OS X. I'm using it quite
frequently these days at work (although I don't own any Apple devices myself
:-) ). However, Mac support is less mature and the packages collection is not
fully bootstrapped (meaning that it has some dependencies
Hi everybody,
A few days ago I've published the following blog post:
http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.nl/2012/12/deploying-ios-applications-with-nix.html
in which I describe how to build iOS apps with Nix. What I've done is quite
hacky, experimental and not entirely pure. For me personally,
I'm using Nix on an ordinary Linux distro (not NixOS) and I want to use
chroot builds, to make package builds more pure. I've successfully performed a
multi-user installation and I've enabled chroot builds in nix.conf. However,
the default build-chroot-dirs option value does not include the
PM
To: nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] chroot builds on other Linux platforms
Hi,
On 28/12/12 18:41, Sander van der Burg - EWI wrote:
A possible solution is to bind mount a different directory from my host system
(only containing the shell) into the the chroot environment
Awesome stuff!
From: nix-commits-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl
[nix-commits-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl] on behalf of Eelco Dolstra
[eelco.dols...@logicblox.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 4:04 PM
To: nix-comm...@lists.science.uu.nl
Subject:
Hey,
I just wanted to remove it myself, so that I could update my blog with the
instructions.
You have also removed the example Nix expressions, along with the example
source code. Should the example Nix expressions also be included elsewhere?
From:
...@logicblox.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 1:13 PM
To: nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] [Nix-commits] [NixOS/nixpkgs] a034c4: androidenv: Remove
examplesdirectory
Hi,
On 20/11/12 12:51, Sander van der Burg - EWI wrote:
I just wanted to remove it myself, so that I could update
]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 10:29 AM
To: Sander van der Burg - EWI
Cc: Nix-dev
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] [Nix-commits] [NixOS/nixpkgs] 3afa95: Added androidenv -
the Android SDK, their addition...
Hi Sander,
On 07/11/12 21:29, Sander van der Burg - EWI wrote:
Normally, I wouldn't include any
Hi everybody,
I have been quiet for some time. At my new employer I have spent some time in
developing an infrastructure as well as 2 functions capable of building and
emulating Android Apps (http:/www.android.com).
I have a detailed blog post about this here:
Hello everyone,
Currently, I'm trying to deploy node.js on Mac OS X through the Nix package
manager. Unfortunately, it fails because cyrus-sasl is broken on Mac OS X.
For me, it looked a bit weird that cyrus-sasl was in the closure anyway, but
apparently fetchsvn is used to download the V8
Freemind seems to run fine, but for some reason netbeans still does not start.
Perhaps there is another library missing.
From: Shea Levy [s...@shealevy.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 5:17 PM
To: Sander van der Burg - EWI
Cc: nix-...@cs.uu.nl
Subject: Re
I know that almost nobody uses Java GUI applications nowadays, but I have
noticed that I cannot run AWT/Swing applications with OpenJDK (although the
Oracle JDK works fine). For example, I cannot run netbeans with OpenJDK.
I have circumvented the issue by utilising Oracle's JDK in the netbeans
.
From: Shea Levy [s...@shealevy.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 2:41 PM
To: Sander van der Burg - EWI
Cc: nix-...@cs.uu.nl
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] openjdk cannot run GUI applications in NixOS
Hi Sander,
On 10/09/2012 08:39 AM, Sander van der Burg - EWI wrote:
I know
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on behalf of Sander van der Burg - EWI [s.vanderb...@tudelft.nl]
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 2:51 PM
To: Shea Levy
Cc: nix-...@cs.uu.nl
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] openjdk cannot run GUI applications in NixOS
Something like this:
[INFO] --- gwt-maven-plugin:2.4.0:run (default-cli
Well, I believe the Nix expression language is Turing complete right (although
I have no proof), so it is as powerful as any other general purpose language.
Haha!
Just kidding
From: nix-dev-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl
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
-or-environment.
From: Ludovic Courtès [l...@gnu.org]
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 11:21 AM
To: Sander van der Burg - EWI
Cc: nix-dev
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] [***SPAM***] [ANN] Guix, functional package management
from Guile
Hey,
Sander van der Burg - EWI s.vanderb
I've just noticed that there is a very big mailing list discussion going on
here. Actually, I'm very busy now with writing my PhD thesis and I didn't
really have the time to respond yet. Nonetheless, I think it's important that I
express my thoughts about this matter, although I haven't read
YEAH!!! Finally we can bootstrap Nix!
From: nix-commits-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl
[nix-commits-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl] on behalf of Eelco Dolstra
[eelco.dols...@logicblox.com]
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 3:43 PM
To: nix-comm...@lists.science.uu.nl
Why didn't you call this file /etc/bikeshed instead?
LOL! http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/os-release.html
From: nix-commits-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl
[nix-commits-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl] on behalf of Eelco Dolstra
[e.dols...@tudelft.nl]
Sent:
Eelco's PhD thesis explains more relevant concepts that you may want to know
about. For example, what a store derivation (.drv file) is and why it is
implemented like that.
You can download his thesis from his homepage:
http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf
Alternatively,
I don't know very much about pgf either, but apparently it's a separate package
which is not included with the regular pgf distribution. I use this package in
conjunction with the pkgs.texFunctions.runLaTeX nix function to automatically
compile my documents by using a nix expression.
peripherals.
From: nix-dev-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl [nix-dev-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl]
on behalf of Sander van der Burg - EWI [s.vanderb...@tudelft.nl]
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 1:38 PM
To: Eelco Dolstra - EWI
Cc: nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl
It turned out yesterday that my Broadcom 4359 wireless network card didn't work
with NixOS, due to missing firmware. After doing some experiments, it looks
like the latest broadcom-sta driver works with this model.
The current Nix expression tries to apply a mutex-sema patch for kernel
Burg - EWI
Cc: nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] broadcom driver
On 26/01/12 13:24, Sander van der Burg - EWI wrote:
This is the updated firmware expression I just created for:
pkgs/os-specific/linux/firmware/bcm43xx/default.nix:
How is this different from the expression
Hi all,
I've just created a NixOS module for MySQL 5.5.
Unfortunately, Oracle decided to use cmake for this MySQL release and the
package structure has changed significantly. Moreover, the replication features
can't be configured the same way as in the old NixOS module.
So I propose to use a
Why is this personal bin directory needed? I don't see the point actually.
I mean users in NixOS have their own private Nix profile to install their
binaries in, right?
From: nix-dev-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl [nix-dev-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl]
on
: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 4:47 PM
To: Sander van der Burg - EWI
Cc: Florian Friesdorf; nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl; sim...@cryp.to
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] ~/bin in PATH if exists
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 03:32:11PM +, Sander van der Burg wrote:
Why is this personal bin directory needed? I don't
Although I'm not sure if I'm going to switch to this as a primary OS, I have to
say:
very nice work! :)
From: nix-dev-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl [nix-dev-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl]
on behalf of Ludovic Courtès [l...@gnu.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November
Probably you have installed Nix as root and you're trying to update the channel
as a non-privileged user.
The simplest solution is probably by changing the permissions of the /nix
directory to your own user account, e.g.:
chown -R myuser:mygroup /nix
Then everything should work fine!
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