[Nix-dev] nix as a library

[Vladimír Čunát]

On 07/08/2016 12:53 PM, stewart mackenzie wrote:
> Are there any plans to make nix's functionality into a library so that
> a programmer could include these libraries and affect change to the
> system via a program they made?
> 
> (keeping a C ABI so that it'll work with libffi)

There's been some discussion on that point already, but AFAIK noone has
produced a use case where using C interface would be significantly
superior to using CLI interface (which has to be maintained reasonably
stable anyway).

--Vladimir


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