[Nix-dev] Nix 1.8 released

Vladimír Čunát vcunat at gmail.com
Tue Dec 16 21:25:33 CET 2014


Hi,
the features sound really good; thanks all contributors!

On 12/16/2014 08:17 PM, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
> But the first thing I think of when reading this is, why isn't log
> files just one of the outputs of a derivation? We have ".dev" and
> ".lib" outputs, why not a ".log" derivation output? Wouldn't that be
> easier?

There's a difference that logs aren't meant to be deterministic, but 
still that shouldn't be a real problem for this.


Vladimir


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