[Nix-dev] Building a GNU 0.401 ISO

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 04/01/2011 01:29 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> GNU 0.401 (aka. GNU/Hurd) was just released [0], along with an ISO based
> on Debian GNU/Hurd [1].
>
> I think this new GNU release deserves a NixOS-based distro so I plan to
> adapt the ISO image module in NixOS to GNU/Hurd.  Fortunately GNU/Hurd
> can already be cross-built from Nixpkgs [2] so it should be easy to
> adjust.

Excellent!

> Once NixOS GNU/Hurd is stable, I plan to incrementally replace Nix (the
> implementation, and then the language) by something based on Guile
> Scheme

This is unnecessary.  Just the other day I was talking with Rob about 
bootstrapping Nix in Nix, since any serious language can build itself.  This 
shouldn't be too hard to do, and the performance impact should be relatively 
negligible.

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