What about using some kind of JSON notation for this? There are some mismatches between JSON and Nix primitives; but on the other hand JSON is easy to parse and generate from every language, and many people are familiar with it.
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016, 9:54 AM deCube.net | Danny Wilson <da...@decube.net> wrote: > How about NEON > > Nix Expression Object Notation > > On 28 feb. 2016, at 15:49, stewart mackenzie <setor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Excellent idea, this removes quite a lot of manual steps. > > Recently wrote some dirty python scripts to automate the checking and > replacing of sha256s, this approach would make it trivial, reducing check > times from about an hour and growing to mere seconds. > > Though, I do have a reservation about the name. An unbubbled search for > NixOS almost always returns a 'did you mean Nixon?' It's infuriating. > Clojure's equivalent is Edn. > > Might I encourage a wilder more adventures ... unambiguous name? > > /sjm > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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