[Nix-dev] NixON initiative

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 28/02/16 15:35, zimbatm wrote:

> No, not the dead president :) JavaScript has JSON and Nix has NixON. A subset of
> the language that only contains literal values.
> 
> Thanks to Tim Cuthbertson (@gfxmonk) nix-prefetch-git now outputs valid NixON.
> Would it make sense to convert more of our tooling to using that notation forward ?

I would prefer getting rid of the nix-prefetch-* scripts altogether, which
should be possible soon:

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/d367b8e7875161e655deaa96bf8a5dd0bcf8229e

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