[Nix-dev] NixON initiative

[Shea Levy]

On 2016-03-03 19:34, Profpatsch wrote:
> On 16-02-28 04:44pm, zimbatm wrote:
>> So something like that ? https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/13552
>> And then we would convert all of our tooling to output JSON ?
>
> As long as nixexprs embedded in the JSON are *not* evaluated in any 
> way,
> we are fine.
>
> Think of
>
> {
>   "hello" = "{ foo = (abort \"ooooops\"); }"
> }
>
> And no, please noone think this is a good idea and we should support 
> that.

Nope, the JSON parsing builtin just treats everything as plain old 
data.