[Nix-dev] New website

[Pjotr Prins]

Maybe nixpkgs deserves its own website. 

I for one am not interested in NixOS at this point, but I can see it
have a much larger impact and user base than nixpkgs (think mobile
platform).

Nixpkg consumers are probably less sensitive to the look&feel of
a website, so that site could be pretty simple and even hosted on
github, for example. 

Pj.


On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 06:39:56PM +0200, Wout Mertens wrote:
> Hi Eelco!
> 
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com>
> wrote:
> 
>     On 01/06/14 09:58, Wout Mertens wrote:
> 
>     > Â  * Nixpkgs should be more visible
> 
>     Actually, a major goal in the redesign was to *get rid* of all the
>     non-NixOS
>     stuff. It's the NixOS homepage, after all, not the Nixpkgs homepage.
>     Confronting
>     visitors with a lot of other projects is just confusing.
> 
> 
> Ok, I get that... but on the other hand Nixpkgs is a *major* thing. I can see
> it supplanting Homebrew on the Mac once it has more packages, and it allows
> deploying newer versions of services on older distributions, safely. I agree
> that Nix is not that interesting to end-users.
> 
> Likewise, NixOps is very interesting but probably only to a small subset of
> potential NixOS users.
> 
> So how about making the discover/download section of the homepage more visually
> separate from the news section, and splitting it vertically: