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

[Shea Levy]

Hi Eelco,

Hmm, I already whipped up a generic solution for long shebangs [1] and
there's the start of a nix build command already. With that already done
it seems likely to be easier to just write a nix shell command rather
than porting nix-shell, why do you think it's preferable to do
otherwise?

~Shea

[1]: https://github.com/shlevy/long-shebang

Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com> writes:

> 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.
>
> -- 
> Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/