[Nix-dev] NixOS next stable release

[Roger Qiu]

That feature would be really cool.

I'm a bit confused, what's the status of the "Recursive Nix" feature?

Is it really on hold? Or waiting for a better implementation?

On 28/03/2015 9:50 PM, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
> On 26 March 2015 at 12:37, Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si> wrote:
>> [...]
>> I'd really like to see "private store files" implemented for this release,
>> since it's the major drawback in our current package manager (after I've
>> talked to quite some people from community in the last year). See
>> https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/8
> One of my biggest wishes for Nix/NixOS, is the ability to build
> packages from upstream tarballs which contain a default.nix file.
>
> I think that would make a great argument for winning people over to
> the Nix-side:
>
>    With this small default.nix file in your source tree you'll be able
> to reproduce your development setup on any machine.
>    And further, users can install your package simply by adding this to
> their config:
>    environment.systemPackages = [ ... ] ++ (remotePackages [
> "http://project/source.tar.gz" ])
>
> I don't know if this is a pipe dream :-)
>
> I guess this is the issue to discuss: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/13
>
> - Bjørn
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