Hey Gleb,
Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense, although I'm thinking of
scalability, in terms of when other languages come around to Nix. Having
all that in nixpkgs might make it quite bloated.
However the problem with cross channel dependencies is an interesting
one, I suppose this problem needs to be fixed first.
Thanks,
Roger
On 15/02/2016 5:10 PM, Gleb Peregud wrote:
Hey Roger
Adding Eric, since he did a lot of work here too.
Few things. I'd like Erlang packages to be integrated into nixpkgs, so
that they can have native dependencies. There's no package manager out
there for Erlang which both has good coverage for Erlang packages and
supports specifying native dependencies. Won't putting them into
separate channel make it harder to do the latter? This is my first Nix
project, so I'm not yet fully familiar with it.
For now it was not a problem to get things merged into nixpkgs, so I
have nothing to complain here. There are indeed few Erlang users in
Nix community, so I was getting some help. Existing infrastructure did
help finding some falling builds, so it's also useful.
As you can see, currently all Erlang but one packages in nixpkgs are
taken from hex.pm <http://hex.pm> as this seem to be the most mature
centralized package repo for Erlang. It also provides APIs which are
handy to use in hex2nix conversion tool.
Cheers,
Gleb
On Feb 15, 2016 6:58 AM, "Roger Qiu" <roger....@matrix.ai
<mailto:roger....@matrix.ai>> wrote:
Hey Gleb,
Was curious about this, why put erlang packages into the main
nixpkgs repo, and in a separate channel?
The advantages could be that you don't have to wait on nixpkgs to
accept changes to erlang packages.
On the otherhand, maybe it's to take advantage of the CI and hydra
and a concentrated community?
Thanks,
Roger
On 15/02/2016 3:37 AM, Gleb Peregud wrote:
Ah, missed this email before. Just wanted to point out that large
chunk of this support was implemented by Eric B. Merritt, so at
least half of kudos goes to him.
Cheers
Gleb
On Feb 13, 2016 18:20, "stewart mackenzie" <setor...@gmail.com
<mailto:setor...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Tristan, Gleb Peregud has implemented first class support for
Erlang
in Nix, pleas read the docs:
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/31821726/download/1/nixpkgs/manual.html#users-guide-to-the-erlang-infrastructure
/sjm
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