[Nix-dev] Hackage -> Nix

[Marc Weber]

Excerpts from Marc Weber's message of Sun Nov 22 22:30:03 +0100 2009:
> You can get my work here:
> 
> http://github.com/MarcWeber/haskell-nix-overlay
> http://github.com/MarcWeber/hack-nix
> 
> To play with it clone haskell-nix-overlay only and try the example given
> in the README file.
> 
> Nicolas Pierron already told me that I may have a chance replacing the
> code comparing version lists by the primop compareVersions hopefully
> improving performance.
> 
> You have to use latest nixpkgs (rev 18540).

I added some patches. HAppS can be built this way now.

I also added a 

  hack-nix --patch-workflow package-version

command which makes patching cabal files and source easier.


Marc Weber