[Nix-dev] 'nixos-stable' channel?

[Linus Heckemann]

On 06/03/17 15:03, Domen Kožar wrote:
> It's something like 15min of work to parse http://nixos.org/channels/
> and point to the latest channel if someone needs this.
> 
> Officially this is a very bad idea, since people will want us to 
> support it.

Isn't the point to just have it refer to the version of NixOS that *is*
being supported? I don't see how parsing http://nixos.org/channels will
convey that information — 17.03 has existed for longer than it's been
supported, no? I.e. stable rather than latest.