[Nix-dev] Feature request: replace the Darwin stdenv with the pure Darwin stdenv

[Wout Mertens]

+1000 on just switching, pure-darwin rocks, impure has constant issues and
we need more eyeballs.

In case of severe breakage we can keep a non-building channel on impure so
people can get at the old binaries…

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015, 18:10 zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com> wrote:

> Looking forward to see the merge happening. Right now Darwin is totally
> unusable for me because of the OSX upgrade.
>
> On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 at 16:52 Eric Seidel <eric at seidel.io> wrote:
>
>> I'm tentatively in favor of making the switch too. I'm going to test my
>> environment against pure-darwin this weekend.
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015, at 08:03, Anthony Cowley wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > > On Oct 2, 2015, at 10:26 AM, Daniel Peebles <pumpkingod at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > If nobody objects, I think we should just switch over. The only
>> people interested in maintaining the darwin ecosystem on Nix don't really
>> want to have to maintain two parallel stdenvs, and unless someone stands up
>> to fight for the old impure stdenv, I think everyone will be long-term
>> better off with the pure one. Yes, there will be some short- and
>> medium-term pain during the switch, but there already is with the El
>> Capitan upgrade.
>> >
>> > I vote to go ahead with this, too. Getting just a little help from hydra
>> > in terms of binaries will make it a lot easier to contribute to
>> > pure-Darwin.
>> >
>> > Anthony
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > >
>> > >> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 3:01 AM, Michael Sperber <
>> sperber at deinprogramm.de> wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> Daniel Peebles <pumpkingod at gmail.com> writes:
>> > >>
>> > >> > Probably obvious, but I'm in favor of switching/merging :)
>> > >>
>> > >> +1
>> > >>
>> > >> --
>> > >> Regards,
>> > >> Mike
>> > >>
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Wout.
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