[Nix-dev] How can we test changes before pushing them to master?

[Shea Levy]

On Jul 24, 2012, at 6:52 PM, Bryce L Nordgren <bnordgren at gmail.com> wrote:

> If I could ask the dumb question...Certainly a particular build has only one derivation (the "deriver" in the manifest), but can a derivation have more than one build? I notice that "References" in the manifest refers to other builds, not to other derivations. I assume there's a reason for the distinction? 
> 

Not more than one build, but more than one output. The feature is not complete, but a single build can create more than one path in the nix store that, after the build succeeds, can be treated almost exactly as if they were built separately (e.g. they can be added separately as build inputs, one can be downloaded via a substitutor without the other, etc.).