[Nix-dev] Separate repository for autogenerated lists of urls and hashes

[Freddy Rietdijk]

Autogenerating packages is one step further. But it would be nice if there
was one source where you could get more of such data from. Maybe
https://libraries.io/ some day?

To come back to the main topic, autogenerated lists in Nixpkgs. I could
imagine it would be nice if we would have also, next to `pkgs` and `lib`, a
`srcs`. This you could use to select the source archive of a package for a
certain version. For example, `src = fetchurl
srcs.github.${name}.${version}` or `src = fetchurl
srcs.pypi.${name}.${version} but also `meta = srcs.pypi.${name}.meta`.

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Kosyrev Serge <_deepfire at feelingofgreen.ru>
wrote:

> Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> writes:
> > I personally think that "autogenerating" packages is the next huge step
> > to be taken. This requires a database and dependency information for all
> > information.
> >
> > Then all distros can benefit, not just nixos.org
>
> ..and share the maintenance burden..
>
> Which would raise more centralisation-related questions, but those would
> be problems we'd be happy to have, I think.. : -)
>
> --
> с уважениeм / respectfully,
> Косырев Сергей
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