>I agree with your concerns about the separate implementation. >The reason for this is related to your third paragraph. The inference >algorithm that is going to be used is no trivial at all to implement, >and my advisor already has done a lot of work on this that could be >reused, but written in OCaml, and we agreed that writing and >maintaining a parser it was far easier than reimplementing what he >already had done, and that it would be too hard to ship a usable >product in a few month without using it.
Have you considered making nix-instantiate --parse-only work with --xml like --eval-only does? May reduce the total effort needed (if it turns out to be reasonably simple) _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
