[Nix-dev] How do you work on big packages?

[Volth]

What I meant in the original question is more about troubleshooting
than development.
That development is incorporated in the deployment chain all other
steps are already powered by nix: build a (patched) kernel, then build
system closures with it, then test-driver scripts, then deploy/run
them...


On 3/17/17, Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/17/2017 10:34 PM, Dmitry Kalinkin wrote:
>> Also it is funny how your statement is followed by some good advice
>> on how to turn nix into even better dev platform. I will only add
>> that one could also use ccache to speedup builds:
>
> I do believe the intention was for "SW distribution" etc, at least
> primarily, and the suitability for development is a by-product due to
> some properties, e.g. easy (non-)mixing of development and stable
> versions/configs.  Marc can surely remember the earlier days of NixOS.
>
> It's even possible to use nix-build instead of make to compile
> individual files, but there it just doesn't seem to be very suitable...
>
>