[Nix-dev] Packaging Torch

[William Casarin]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 5:30 AM, Sergey Mironov <grrwlf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, List. I'd like to use Torch (http://torch.ch/) on NixOS and it
> looks like I have to package it first.

I was looking into this awhile back. On the lua side, some pre-reqs
would make this a lot easier:

  * luarocks2nix (https://luarocks.org/manifest.zip)
  * packaging these https://github.com/torch/rocks

This would be useful for things outside Torch as well, but looks like
a lot of work...