On 2014-09-02 14:06, Luca Bruno wrote: > On 02/09/2014 12:02, Alexei Robyn wrote: >> Unless I'm missing something, Lennart's only response to you was: "we >> actually try to do our homework before we propose something. We looked >> at a variety of systems, and not just on Linux ones, but also what >> MacOS, Android, ChromeOS, and even Windows do..." >> >> Which - given it is completely generic and mentions none of the points >> you raised (or heck, Nix itself at all) - sounds a lot more like he's >> deflecting to buy time to grok Nix. I would think otherwise, but he >> wrote detailed responses to almost every other poster both before and >> after you... >> >> Hopefully if this is the case he comes back with a solid understanding >> of it and not just enough of one to come up with seemingly plausible >> reasons why their plan is the superior option. Past experience of people >> in general tells me the latter is the more likely outcome but then I >> don't know Lennart in specific. Still, here's hoping this instead >> results in Nix getting some larger groups interested in it, as well as >> in this class of problems :). > I believe in no way Lennart will be interested in Nix, since it changes > things way too much and requires nix programming understanding for > system administration. > > Instead I think he will come up with some other solution which is > similar to OSX, OSTree or 0install, together with some system-level changes. > I hope he will take a closer look at Nix, but in no way I think he will > even try it.
Given the history. He will prefer to reimplement Nix, than try it. :) _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev