Hi Sander, Sounds good to me, such a patch would definitely be welcome. If the packages you're adding are normally installed via npm, though, you may want to check out npm2nix.
Thanks, Shea On Feb 4, 2013, at 6:21, Sander van der Burg - EWI <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Lately, I'm using Node.js and I wanted to create a package that requires some > of the NodeJS modules that we have defined in node-packages.nix. However, > when I add them to buildInputs, they cannot be found. > > Of course, I could set the NODE_PATH environment variable in every package > expression that I write, but I find it more elegant when we can just add > these to buildInputs. > > Enabling this functionality is not that hard. We just have to provide a setup > hook with Node.js that adds packages with a node_modules subdirectory to > NODE_PATH. I can implement that hook quite easily. > > What do you think? > > -- Sander > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
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