[Nix-dev] On npm2nix and the NPM package set in Nixpkgs

[Nikolay Amiantov]

This patch is needed to fix sha256 hashes for the old npm2nix -- maybe
it would help:
https://github.com/NixOS/npm2nix/pull/42

BTW, I have updated node-packages-generated.nix with this patch
successfully some time ago:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/16137

On 07/08/2016 12:11 AM, Sander van der Burg wrote:
> Well, for me personally it does not matter that much.
> 
> So far, I have only seen one +1 vote for making my version the new
> npm2nix. However, not so long ago, I noticed that there was another
> incoming pull request for the vanilla npm2nix. Perhaps the person who
> filed it, did not know about the existence of the reengineering2 branch
> or this discussion thread. :)
> 
> Anyway, the reason why I still haven't integrated anything yet, is this
> issue: https://github.com/svanderburg/npm2nix/issues/7
> 
> When using the master Nixpkgs branch, it seems that npm2nix no longer
> computes the sha256 hashes for the git checkouts correctly. Apparently,
> some change in the fetchgit {} infrastructure (or a dependency thereof)
> causes this, but I don't know why. When using the latest stable branch
> of Nixpkgs (release-16.03) everything seems to work just fine.
> 
> I guess this issue needs to be resolved first. IMO it's a bit useless to
> have NPM packages set in Nixpkgs with broken Git dependencies, even
> though the master Nixpkgs should not be considered stable.
> 
> Besides npm2nix, other generators are affected as well -- bower2nix also
> seems to break in one of my use cases. I haven't checked any other
> lang2nix generators though :( 

-- 
Nikolay.