[Nix-dev] What is the end game?

[Daniel Peebles]

I linked to one of those in my email and was the submitter of the other, so
I've seen them :)

TBC: this is not intended as a discussion of the Hydra package/service. I
was just using Hydra as an example of a project that already fit my
description. I want to know what the plan is for other projects that fit
that description, since so far it appears that usablity (or discoverability
and unified documentation, at least) currently suffers a little in the case
where we have "nix-enabled" projects upstream.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 5:40 AM, Joachim Schiele <js at lastlog.de> wrote:

> please see this discussions:
>
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/7504
> https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/issues/197
>
> i also would like the service in nixpkgs but eelco certainly knows what
> he is doing! on the other hand installing hydra is a real pain and many
> many will simply give up quite soonish.
>
> On 25.08.2015 17:42, Daniel Peebles wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Let's say for a moment that Nix has taken over the world, and every open
> > source project now includes a default.nix or release.nix in its repo
> root.
> >
> > What does nixpkgs look like in this world? Does it duplicate the
> > individual package .nix files in their respective repositories? Does it
> > only duplicate minimal information (dependencies and meta) from the
> > remote repositories?
> >
> > We're already running into (a small amount of) pain because Hydra
> > already fits the description
> > above:
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/7504#issuecomment-95547176.
> > Based on expectations set by most packages in nixpkgs/nixos, we expect
> > to find services and packages in nixpkgs, and Hydra breaks that
> > expectation. I'm not necessarily saying we should move its expressions
> > into nixpkgs, but I am looking for someone to paint a picture of what
> > Nix(OS) life will look like when we achieve world domination :)
> >
> > Thanks
> > Dan
> >
> >
> >
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