[Nix-dev] Re: Boost libraries

[Ludovic Courtès]

Nicolas Pierron
<nicolas.b.pierron at gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:52, Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Nicolas Pierron
>> <nicolas.b.pierron at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> 2) Scoped Monadic Packages
>>
>> What does it mean?  Perhaps you're referring to Cabal or something (I'm
>> not a Haskeller as you can see)?
>
> I am referring to an environment modification when a function is called.
>
> "subversion.override { .. }" will do this operation in the entire
> scope.  Thus every job using this scope will have this modified
> version wherever it has been made inside the scope.

Understood.  I was confused by the phrase "Scoped Monadic Packages".

Thanks,
Ludo'.