Hello, Nixers! I was thinking on it some days ago. How about popularize NixOS among FLOSS software developers?
It is very common among FLOSS developers to point out precompiled packages or some similar facilities for the most famous operating systems and distros, like Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora mirrors, Slackware unofficial slackbuilds, AUR Archlinux, Gentoo overlays, the famous *BSD freshports/pkgsrc... Why not to contact some of them we are packaging and ask them to cite us out? It would be a good idea in many sights: - We would become more famous, which would attract more hackers to our projects; - We would suggest bugfixes on various softwares, namely those full of hackings on Nixpkgs. The Nixpkgs approach is a bit different from those of other distros/OSes and it helps to find some obscure bugs, mainly the lack of a serious dependency control and some tacit assumptions (like ldconfig, absolute paths, undocumented features, etc.); - Our suggestions would be a valuable benefit from all other package managers - after all, we are suggesting bugfixes on serious, insidious, hard-to-find packaging bugs. - We can serve as an indirect buildfarm for most of FLOSS world, with our Hydra servers. Well, I don't know if our Hydra server is really prepared for a so hard and huge task, but it would be even improved by donations from great companies (we would be famous now, remember? :D ) What about this, guys? _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
