Excerpts from Charles Strahan's message of Sat Jul 26 19:43:29 +0000 2014: > Hi all,
Well - depends on what you're looking for. nixpkgs-ruby-overlay has been in use by me for a long time and often does a resanobly good job https://nixos.org/wiki/nixpkgs-ruby-overlay There are some minor problems such as you having to download a dump of RubyForge (which I don't update regularly right now). It does not support lockfiles yet - but you could turn lockfiles into that such .nix code. The best thing would creating a mirror and fetching package descriptions on the fly via API on demand - but with defined revision so that results can be reproduced. I started this alternative approach after giving up on the "generate .nix files for nixpkgs" for both Haskell/ruby. I also tried this for Python, but that time I failed because dependency information on PyPi was weak or dynamic (determined by setup scripts) often. Thus the way to move forward would be creating a global package database which contained all information for everyone. (And also make C/C++ gnome and whatnot folks use it ..) That's my view - it could be incomplete. Marc Weber _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
