[Nix-dev] GNU Guix 0.1 released (alpha)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Michael Raskin <7c6f434c at mail.ru> skribis:

>>>> Do you mean the opposite–generating Guix expressions from Nix?
>>>
>>> I actually meant guix -> nix, as guix being within a full language, I
>>> had gut feeling this direction might be preferable, see also below.
>>
>>I think conversion has the same problem in both directions: simple
>>meta-data is trivially converted, but anything beyond that, especially
>>builder-side code, can hardly be automatically converted.
>
> Can't Guix launch sh with all needed variables set?

It would still need to have Nixpkgs’s stdenv/setup.sh around, and
probably more of Nixpkgs’s infrastructure (for instance, there’s no GCC
wrapper in the distro, so NIX_CFLAGS & co. won’t have any effect.)

Ludo’.