[Nix-dev] Re: GNUpdate, an automatic update tool for GNU packages

[Michael Raskin]

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On 04/13/2010 05:18 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> In theory, yes.  ‘src-info-for-default.nix’ does seem to provide all the
> necessary info so that’s probably a good starting point.  Apparently
> it’s quite flexible but also slightly more verbose than necessary, at
> least for GNU projects.
> 
> BTW, where’s Michael script to process these?

build-support/update-upstream-info

> Ideally we’d have functions to:
>   - Check whether a Nix object is evaluated or not.
>   - Force the evaluation of a Nix object.
>   - Deal with evaluation errors.
>   - Inspect the type and value of that object.
>   - Get source location information for objects.

Also, ideally that interface would be an "Extern C" interface to avoid
mangling...
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