[Nix-dev] NixON initiative

[zimbatm]

@Eelco: that looks super cool, once it’s in we should implement all the
nix-prefetch-* scripts in function of that.

One difference is that nix-prefetch-git also resolves the git revision from
a tag or branch name which makes it easy to generate an update script.

@gfxmonk: heh not yet but https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/13584
changes the output to JSON. After(if) that change lands you can do
something like:

$ nix-prefetch-git git://yoururl > repo.json

and in nix:

mkDerivation {
  src = stdenv.lib.importJSON ./repo.json;
}

​

On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 at 21:33 Herwig Hochleitner <hhochleitner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2016-02-28 15:35 GMT+01:00 zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com>:
>
>> No, not the dead president :) JavaScript has JSON and Nix has NixON. A
>> subset of the language that only contains literal values.
>>
>
>
> Cool Idea! Here is some code to translate NixON into edn (clojure's json,
> https://github.com/edn-format/edn):
> https://github.com/webnf/dwn/blob/master/util.nix#L3-L30
> I also have code to generate NixON from clojure, somewhere ..
>
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