On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 16:47 +0200, apfelmus wrote: > Hello, > > http://nix.cs.uu.nl/index.html > > "Nix is a purely functional package manager. This means that it treats > packages like values in purely functional programming languages such as > Haskell - they are built by functions that don't have side-effects, and > they never change after they have been built." > > To me, it sounds like the ideal solution to package/make/build > management in general and Cabal/Hackage/Cabal-install in particular. > After all, compilation is just a _pure_ function > > compile :: Source -> Dependencies -> Object > > So, the suggestion is to use Nix for Hackage/Cabal. This way, we get > package installation/deinstallation for free. I didn't look into it, but > it seems that the package description language can express most content > from .cabal files and I guess that it even eliminates the need for most > of Cabal's functionality like finding compilers and such.
I was under the impression that it didn't work on Windows. From another quick look at the website, it looks like that's right. Does anybody happen to know otherwise? Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
