[Nix-dev] NixON initiative

[zimbatm]

So something like that ? https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/13552
And then we would convert all of our tooling to output JSON ?

On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 at 16:43 Anand Patil <anand.prabhakar.patil at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You could interpret {path: "/a/b/c"} as a path literal.
>
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016, 11:06 AM zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com> wrote:
>
>> But we wouldn’t have the path type in JSON anymore ! Hmm maybe that’s a
>> good thing actually :p
>>
>> importJSON = path: builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile path);
>>
>> ​
>>
>> On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 at 15:37 jeaye <contact at jeaye.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 03:11:15PM +0000, Anand Patil wrote:
>>> > What about using some kind of JSON notation for this? There are some
>>> > mismatches between JSON and Nix primitives; but on the other hand JSON
>>> is
>>> > easy to parse and generate from every language, and many people are
>>> > familiar with it.
>>>
>>> I wholeheartedly concur; please don't make another JSON-like format.
>>> JSON is so well supported in so many languages and, I believe, it does
>>> everything we'd need.
>>>
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