[Nix-dev] What is the end game?

[Domen Kožar]

Or we could, as any software, tag and release hydra so that users can fetch
working versions for easier learning curve.

On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 15:38 Nicolas Pierron <nicolas.b.pierron at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Daniel Peebles <pumpkingod at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> If we were in such world, then the module would probably be best
> handled by upstream maintainers.
>
> The way NixOS modules are working, we need all of them before
> evaluating any configuration, thus we would need to have a copy of the
> configuration file, even if we have to download it.  In such case, it
> makes sense that NixOS list of modules would be built out-of an
> aggregate of fetched resources.
>
> Thus, if we ever do a copy, we should do it with an url and a hash,
> and have one of the multiple output of packages be the NixOS module
> that we will aggregate, as-if it was a generic post-install script.
>
> Then, the problem with Hydra, is slightly different.  Currently hydra
> does not provide any stable ("tagged") version.  I guess we could
> experiment the previous suggestion, but I would prefer to have
> multiple instances of this problem before attempting any generic
> solution as described above.  In the mean time, I think having your
> own copy of hydra, and using it to aggregate the module which is
> inside might be the best solution.
>
> --
> Nicolas Pierron
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