[Nix-dev] Re: overview about hack-nix and how it works

[Marc Weber]

Excerpts from Peter Simons's message of Tue Aug 09 14:14:21 +0200 2011:
> It seems to me that you have needs and interests that hack-nix fulfills
> just fine. My needs seem to be somewhat different, though. That is not a
> bad thing -- diversity is very desirable.

I have to admit that haskell-packages.nix scales better than I expected
it to one year ago.

So what's killing the idea?
- it being written in Nix?
- it being slow (could be improved by using C implementation)
- you think its broken by design?
- me having arrogant communication style ? (Sorry about that. I'll try
  to improve)

I assume that we both enjoy coding more than packaging.

quoting your previous sayings:
> you: Now, if hack-nix would be able to resolve build input dependencies
> automatically, then it would be very useful indeed.

> > > > me: If you have time to rewrite it.. go on and do it.
> > > you: Actually, that effort is well underway.
> > me: How will the design look [..]?
no reply

Makes me think that you're not willing to spend more time on this.
Its obvious that hack-nix has its flaws. 
I'd still call it a working prototype and with some additional love I'm
pretty sure that I can get down evaluation time of leksah server to less
than 3 secs. Currently the same work is done multiple times (preparing
the package list).

Whenever you want to give it a try sending me your pub key will be
enough. The SSH Account is prepared for testing.

Yours
Marc Weber