Stewert,
I did the majority of the Erlang/Beam packaging and I followed the Haskell
model for two main reasons.
1. It worked so well in Haskell - why deviate?
2. Expression generation was much easier.
I think these strongly win out, at at least for the Erlang/Beam world. The
downside is that grepping the
nixpkgs repository (my default way to search for a package) doesn't work nearly
as well.
My suspicion is that, if you wanted to go this route generally, you would need
to improve the tooling
around searching for packages/expressions.
Eric
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] haskell structure for all of nixpkgs
Local Time: April 25, 2016 11:15 AM
UTC Time: April 25, 2016 6:15 PM
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 2:02 AM, Ericson, John <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'd say https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/14000 was the first big step
> in this direction, and hopefully
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/10874 will lead to the second.
Thanks John for the links, fantastic stuff.
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