On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Mateusz Kowalczyk <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On 09/08/2014 04:56 PM, Richard Wallace wrote:
> > 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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>
> This looks as good of a solution as any other one could come up with. Is
> there something you're dissatisfied with that you would like to have in
> a ‘better’ solution?
>
>
Well, the mongoDB package isn't the only one that I want to get a specific
version of. We originally built it with a sandbox and used `cabal freeze`
to make sure everyone is using the same versions. So there are a number of
such packages and I was hoping for something a bit more automated. Perhaps
I can script something to make it a bit easier to maintain.
Rich
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