It seems like it might be a good idea to ensure that the output of nix-prefetch-git can always be fed into fetchgit via builtins.fromJSON. To move things a bit closer to that, I submitted https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/14111 . It would be great if zimbatm and anyone else who's interested could take a look at that and let me know what they think.
Ryan On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Ryan Trinkle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > These are great changes, but I would like to note that having a stable > machine-readable output format for nix-prefetch-git would be very helpful. > I frequently use that command in scripts, and the recent changes have > caused some breakage. Of course, Nix makes that breakage pretty easy to > deal with, which is very nice! > > > Regards, > Ryan > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Shea Levy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2016-03-03 19:34, Profpatsch wrote: >> > On 16-02-28 04:44pm, zimbatm wrote: >> >> So something like that ? https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/13552 >> >> And then we would convert all of our tooling to output JSON ? >> > >> > As long as nixexprs embedded in the JSON are *not* evaluated in any >> > way, >> > we are fine. >> > >> > Think of >> > >> > { >> > "hello" = "{ foo = (abort \"ooooops\"); }" >> > } >> > >> > And no, please noone think this is a good idea and we should support >> > that. >> >> Nope, the JSON parsing builtin just treats everything as plain old >> data. >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >> > >
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