[Nix-dev] Handling nix-shell shebangs with the new nix command

Eelco Dolstra eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com
Mon Aug 1 11:26:39 CEST 2016


Hi Shea,

On 07/29/2016 10:48 PM, Shea Levy wrote:

> For the perl->c++ work, how should we handle nix-shell shebangs given
> that the command is now "nix shell"? Should the nix command itself
> contain shebang-checking logic, or should we have a separate nix-shell
> C++ program just for shebangs, or something else?

Well, there is no "nix shell" command yet. Given that the "nix" command is
experimental at the moment, it's probably best to keep nix-shell a separate
program for now.

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