starts by making nixos-container a
bit nicer to live in.
Eric
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Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] how to go about refactoring nixos-container?
Local Time: July 21, 2016 3:16 PM
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my suggestion would be to start completely new project outside
nixos/nixpkgs and then if/when working then we can open an discussion
to replace nixos-container in nixpkgs.
and about the language. does it really matter. if you can do it in c++
that is currently preferred language in nix, but if you
The main criteria for language selection in the nix tooling is platform
availability and it's really hard to beat C++ and Perl on that. That being
said for that specific project you might argue that "language of choice"
only has to support platforms that also support containerisation. If we're
rely
Maintainers,
I have been spending a fair amount of time adding bits to `nixos-container` and
expect to be spending more time there as I have started using it heavily for
standing up and testing groups of systems. It's been tempting to refactor the
command. Before doing that I wanted to ask the
