[Nix-dev] [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 20248 - sandervanderburg - nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/lib

[Florian Friesdorf]

On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:37:58 +0100, Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 25/02/10 14:06, Sander van der Burg wrote:
> 
> > Log:
> > Added initial licenses attributeset to specify meta.license attributes more concisely
> 
> > +  asl20 = {
> > +    shortName = "ASL2.0";
> > +    fullName = "Apache Software License 2.0";
> > +    url = http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0;
> > +  };
> ...
> 
> I just noticed that meta.license attributes specified using
> stdenv.lib.licenses.* don't work, because meta attributes are not allowed to be
> attribute sets.  (They can be strings, lists of strings or integers.)

How about attribute sets where all values are strings? It sounds like it
is an requirement to easily generate a string representation of the mata
attribute.

Or would it be possible to use the fullName or ShortName as "string value"
of the attribute set?

>  Thus, for
> instance, licenses specified in this way don't show up in "nix-env -q --meta
> --xml" or in Hydra build pages.
> 
> What to do about this?  For now we should probably change the licenses in
> pkgs/lib/licenses.nix to be strings.

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