Hello,
I'm using nix-shell to setup a Haskell environment for development. On a
project I ran into a problem recently, and I'm curious if there is a
common/preferred way of solving it.
The problem I ran into is that the project depends on the mongoDB 1.5
package. The API changed drastically in 2.0 and we're not ready to
undertake the upgrade yet. I think I can handle this by creating a nixpkgs
directory in the project, putting a mongoDB/default.nix file in there that
is setup for the version we need, then override it in our shell.nix file
like this:
let
pkgs = import <nixpkgs> {};
haskellPackages = pkgs.haskellPackages.override {
extension = self: super: {
mongoDB = self.callPackage nixpkgs/mongoDB {};
ourkidsclass = self.callPackage ./. {};
};
};
Is this a reasonable approach? Is there a better way?
Thanks,
Rich
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