[Nix-dev] Developing with older packages

[Vladimír Čunát]

On 09/08/2014 08:08 PM, Richard Wallace wrote:
> Well, the mongoDB package isn't the only one that I want to get a
> specific version of.  We originally built it with a sandbox and used
> `cabal freeze` to make sure everyone is using the same versions.  So
> there are a number of such packages and I was hoping for something a bit
> more automated.  Perhaps I can script something to make it a bit easier
> to maintain.

(CC @peti, as the thread concerns versioning of haskell packages in 
nixpkgs.)

You can use cabal2nix to generate the .nix file for a specific package 
version.


Vladimir


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