[Nix-dev] Updating emacs-snapshot package

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Phil Hagelberg <technomancy at gmail.com> skribis:

> Is it just discouraged to package prerelease versions of software in
> general? If it's merely a question of stability then it shouldn't be a
> problem; the Emacs 24 pretest is very stable.

For GNU packages, I find it better to simply use whatever’s available
from <http://hydra.nixos.org/project/gnu>.

For other projects, it may make sense to have snapshot packages in
Nixpkgs, depending on how the project evolves, etc.

Thanks,
Ludo’.