[Nix-dev] Build a default.nix for a project with node.js and python dependencies

Sergiu Ivanov sivanov at colimite.fr
Wed Sep 7 13:31:07 CEST 2016


Thus quoth  zimbatm  at 11:32 on Mi, Sep 07 2016:
>
> And I think there are some for Perl/CPAN, Ocaml/??? and .NET/Nuget too.

OCaml's package manager is OPAM [0].

> It would be nice if we could come up with a universal XXX2nix that has a
> unified interface, but then it's probably a lot of work to find the lowest
> common denominator. All of those tools also generate different nix outputs,
> some just generate the repository metadata, some also generate an
> accompanying default.nix.

Well I suppose having all these tools generate the same Nix output will
be good enough.

Universal solutions tend to be difficult to write and maintain.

-- 
Sergiu

[0] https://opam.ocaml.org/
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