[Nix-dev] NixON initiative

[Tim Cuthbertson]

Hah, well that has to be one of my shortest-lived changes ever. But as
long as I can `fetchgit (importSomehow ./src.json)` I'll be happy, and
it seems pretty useful to have nix understand JSON quite well anyway,
since it's so pervasive. Thanks for publicising this, zimbatm :)

Cheers,
 - Tim.

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 5:55 AM, zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com> wrote:
> Interesting how much traffic this thread has. If we have importJSON I
> suppose that we could then output JSON from all of our tooling. It should
> also make it easier to get the output from any modern language.
>
> In that case I will make some changes so that nix-prefetch-git outputs JSON
> by default and propose importJSON to be added to the stdlib.
>
> On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 at 17:48 Moritz Ulrich <moritz at tarn-vedra.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>> zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com> writes:
>> > ```
>> > $ nix-prefetch-git git://github.com/direnv/direnv.git 2>/dev/null | tee
>> > repo.nix
>> > {
>> >   url = "git://github.com/direnv/direnv.git";
>> >   rev = "9283a67646349bfef002a7242db47a6b8ef75305";
>> >   sha256 = "15kbzxwl03f0awnf5n6mw7hcz2dr7p6rpvhfyq3kxn1nk8jxcipx";
>> > }
>> > ```
>>
>> Any reason why we can't use JSON here? That would make everything *much*
>> easier to generate from tools.
>>
>> I totally agree with other people in this thread: as much as I like Nix
>> the language, I don't think we should create another JSON-like data
>> format.
>>
>> Also, The only thange would be putting the attrs in "" and replacing the
>> ; with ,. I don't think that would make it less readable.
>
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