Thu 12 Jan 17 − 18:30, Michael Raskin(7c6f4...@mail.ru) a écrit: > >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)
I haven't, but it is worth considerating, indeed (but I fear that it would require some modifications to the nix parser in order to be useful for me). If nothing more, this could be a good way to test my parser against the official one. -- Théophane Hufschmitt _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
