Dmitry Kalinkin writes: > On 17 Mar 2017, at 17:44, Vladimír Čunát <vcu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I do believe the intention was for "SW distribution" etc, at least > primarily, and the suitability for development is a by-product due to > some properties, e.g. easy (non-)mixing of development and stable > versions/configs. Marc can surely remember the earlier days of NixOS. > > So nix has “nix copy” functionality to do the distribution part. But the rest > of the nix system allows to describe a > relatively general computation process in Unix-like environment. I use nix > derivations to run a numerical > calculation code and store intermediate steps in outputs. I imagine, there > are some “SW distribution”-oriented > users facing more resistance when using nix than me doing my thing. I also > think that the nix/NixOS community > will have lots of people who appreciate generality of nix as a tool. > > It's even possible to use nix-build instead of make to compile > individual files, but there it just doesn't seem to be very suitable… > > Yes. Like https://github.com/edolstra/nix-make . I wonder what didn’t work > out.
Garbage management becomes complicated from a human perspective, I guess. Perhaps, Nix could adopt a generational GC approach, to avoid mixing long-lived packages-related-files and short-lived build-related files.. -- с уважениeм / respectfully, Косырев Сергей -- “Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.” -- Frank Herbert, Children of Dune _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
