We (IOHK) are going to use yarn2nix in the future as well. Maybe we could have a call where things stand and how to proceed?
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Maarten Hoogendoorn <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been working with zimbatim and manveru on a yarn2nix as well, see > https://github.com/moretea/yarn2nix > > I'm not actively using it myself though. I would be interested in planning > a few hours to hack on this together ;) > > 2017-04-25 10:37 GMT+02:00 Profpatsch <[email protected]>: > >> On 17-04-25 08:20am, Benno Fünfstück wrote: >> > If we get upstream to support enough for our use case, the solution >> should >> > be much more stable. >> >> Upstream support might be helpful, >> but that’s a wholly different beast. >> >> > Hmm, so perhaps in we can unpack the tarballs already in `phase 1` and >> tell >> > yarn to just look in $DIR for unpacked tarballs? Yarn should already >> have >> > most of the code that is required for correct symlinking, no? >> >> The code for correct symlinking is <4 lines, >> maybe a few more for manpages and binaries. >> >> I’d argue integrating it into yarn is even more frickle: >> 1. With yarn there’s now two implementations of npm packages. >> 2. We have to invest into lobbying so our integration >> isn’t broken by upstream sometimes. Then lobby again. >> 3. You’d definitely have to change yarn to have >> an offline mode where it doesn’t try to download stuff. >> I’m pretty sure upstream doesn’t care about that very much. >> >> These are the problem points I see. >> >> -- >> Proudly written in Mutt with Vim on NixOS. >> Q: Why is this email five sentences or less? >> A: http://five.sentenc.es >> May take up to five days to read your message. If it’s urgent, call me. >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > >
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