[Nix-dev] NixON initiative

[Ryan Trinkle]

It seems like it might be a good idea to ensure that the output of
nix-prefetch-git can always be fed into fetchgit via builtins.fromJSON.  To
move things a bit closer to that, I submitted
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/14111 .  It would be great if zimbatm
and anyone else who's interested could take a look at that and let me know
what they think.


Ryan

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Ryan Trinkle <ryan.trinkle at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> These are great changes, but I would like to note that having a stable
> machine-readable output format for nix-prefetch-git would be very helpful.
> I frequently use that command in scripts, and the recent changes have
> caused some breakage.  Of course, Nix makes that breakage pretty easy to
> deal with, which is very nice!
>
>
> Regards,
> Ryan
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
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