[Nix-dev] Zero Hydra Failures (ZHF) project

[Michael Raskin]

>@peti: the recent hydraPlatforms change is a hack right? Because that does
>not prevent the user from trying to install the package, which will be
>compiled and will fail.

hydraPlatforms is a reasonable solution for another problem; when the
build takes more space than time and the package is less useful on some
platforms, you can save some Hydra space.

>> That's a good idea for the long-term. However the mechanism for which we
>> decide that a package is buildable with python2 but not python3 is still a
>> work in progress. Same goes for other languages like haskell.
>> So before reaching that automation level it's necessary to step through
>> this rough problem first.