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

[Dmitry Kalinkin]

> On 17 Mar 2017, at 17:44, Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com <mailto:vcunat at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 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.
So nix has “nix copy” functionality to do the distribution part. But the rest of the nix system allows to describe a relatively general computation process in Unix-like environment. I use nix derivations to run a numerical calculation code and store intermediate steps in outputs. I imagine, there are some “SW distribution”-oriented users facing more resistance when using nix than me doing my thing. I also think that the nix/NixOS community will have lots of people who appreciate generality of nix as a tool.
> 
> 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…
Yes. Like https://github.com/edolstra/nix-make <https://github.com/edolstra/nix-make> . I wonder what didn’t work out.


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