[Nix-dev] nix-shell enhancements

2013-07-26 Thread Joachim Schiele
hi eelco, cillian and i have been designing nix-ray, see https://github.com/qknight/nix-ray/blob/master/userstory.org but some important features were not available from the python shell like: - a list of defined phase - functions like genericBuild/configurePhase/... recognized via

Re: [Nix-dev] nix-shell enhancements

2013-07-26 Thread Marc Weber
Well - I have one command nI -A foo which builds foo by attr with -K flag. If the build fails, it cds into the build directory. I then have a second command to start a new terminal window so that I can load nix-env. That's all I need for debugging. If I need more I add a fail to a build phase,