Hello, On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 08:10:53PM +0100, Petr Rockai wrote: > Peter Simons <sim...@cryp.to> writes: > > that patch is rather large (26KB). I don't know much about dictd, so > > please bear with me if this is a stupid question, but why does this > > python script have to be checked into Nixpkgs? Can it not be generated > > or retrieved via HTTP somehow? > > > > It seems to me like this kind of thing ought to be applied upstream, so > > that everyone benefits from it, not just users of NixOS. > > well, there is no upstream for this. Most of the python code comes from > a standalone dict server, but I don't see how my version could be useful > to that standalone server. The modified code uses dictfmt from dictd to > build a dictd-compatible database. The original code builds uncompressed > CDB files that are served using a simple python server. > > I could put it up on my personal homepage, but I don't think that's such > a great idea.
Some projects accept related code to a 'contrib' subdirectory. I prefer those small programs to sit in personal homepages, or on some of those websites that offer free VCS storage. I think I have quite enough of similar code that I could commit to nixpkgs, even for dict. But I think I better publish that apart. Or, if you want that very related to nixos, you could commit in the configurations/trunk/misc subdirectory. Those are my preferences - some may have others. Regards, Lluís. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev