[Nix-dev] Auto-generated expressions for applications

[zimbatm]

On Wed, 31 May 2017, 17:23 Benno Fünfstück, <benno.fuenfstueck at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Profpatsch <mail at profpatsch.de> schrieb am Mi., 31. Mai 2017 um 16:01 Uhr:
>
>> On 17-05-31 08:25am, Benno Fünfstück wrote:
>> > A package set
>> > is a consistent set of packages of a given language.
>>
>> exactly that is not possible with e.g. npm or golang packages.
>>
>
> Yes, those should be dealth with differently. Is sharing of deps between
> different applications in these languages common? (sorry, i'm not very
> familar with either)
>

With npm, a single application might contain multiple versions of the same
library. There is no forcing function that nudges developers to deal with
API compatibilities.

With golang, each project dependency is usually pinned to a single commit
ID. There is no notion of semver that can help build a constraint solver.

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