[Nix-dev] Fwd: Installing wireless drivers

2014-04-01 Thread Sergey Mironov
Probably, you have made a mistake in the configuration.nix. Here is my config which enables wicd, please re-check your layout. https://github.com/grwlf/nixpkgs/blob/local/machines/samsung-np900x3c.nix And here is another config, this time containing NetworkManager

[Nix-dev] Installing threadscope doesn't work

2014-04-01 Thread ikrek vagyunk
Hi, I tried installing threadscope and got a nice error message, containing many reports about ambiguous occurrences. The relevant part of my config is (I played with commenting out different permutations): environment = { systemPackages = with pkgs; [ (haskellPackages.ghcWithPackages

[Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

2014-04-01 Thread Sander van der Burg - EWI
Hello Nixers, After a year of hard work, I proudly want to present you NiJS: the asynchronous package manager. In NiJS, you can use the more popular, innovating and future proof JavaScript language to specify package build specifications while still having most of the useful goodies that Nix

Re: [Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

2014-04-01 Thread Marc Weber
http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2014/04/asynchronous-package-management-with.html I have discovered that the Nix expression language is complicated and difficult to learn. Like Haskell, it has a solid theoretical foundation and powerful features (such as laziness), but it's too hard to

Re: [Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

2014-04-01 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 10:52:10AM +, Marc Weber wrote: Thus eventually its time to think about which information could be shared. Who would join a software version documentation project allowing people to upload the most recent version of my software is X, and it requires Z, FOO, BAR ?

Re: [Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

2014-04-01 Thread Shell Turner
http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2014/04/asynchronous-package-management-with.html I have discovered that the Nix expression language is complicated and difficult to learn. Like Haskell, it has a solid theoretical foundation and powerful features (such as laziness), but it's too hard to

Re: [Nix-dev] chromium fails to build

2014-04-01 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Bjørn Forsman bjorn.fors...@gmail.com writes: Hi all, Does anyone know what's up with the failing chromium build? I reverted the upgrade for file locally. This fixes chromium. http://hydra.nixos.org/build/9819641/nixlog/1/tail-reload Build error: building

Re: [Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

2014-04-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Sander! Sander van der Burg - EWI s.vanderb...@tudelft.nl skribis: After a year of hard work, I proudly want to present you NiJS: the asynchronous package manager. In NiJS, you can use the more popular, innovating and future proof JavaScript language to specify package build

Re: [Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

2014-04-01 Thread Max Ivanov
I would certainly be keen to see a switch from a central nixpkgs repo to a system whereby the nix expression comes with the package itself. Yes, lots of details to figure out there, but I think it's preferable for a number of reasons. Then, obviously, there are central servers where this data

Re: [Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

2014-04-01 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 01/04/14 12:11, Sander van der Burg - EWI wrote: After a year of hard work, I proudly want to present you NiJS: the asynchronous package manager. In NiJS, you can use the more popular, innovating and future proof JavaScript language to specify package build specifications while

Re: [Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

2014-04-01 Thread Sander van der Burg - EWI
Awesome! The fact that Guix can generate EMCAScript, also make it robust and future proof. I also think we can reach even a bigger audience if we join efforts, so we should definitely look into it! From: nix-dev-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl

Re: [Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

2014-04-01 Thread Alexander Kjeldaas
I think this is the wrong way to go. The bootstrap size for JavaScript is huge with nodejs depending on the world. Nix is relatively small which is nice. It's far from optimal though. Haskell is also huge, but there are a few languages with tiny footprints. I suggest we look at ash or maybe zsh.

Re: [Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

2014-04-01 Thread Colin Putney
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Shell Turner cam.t...@gmail.com wrote: http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2014/04/asynchronous-package-management-with.html I have discovered that the Nix expression language is complicated and difficult to learn. Like Haskell, it has a solid theoretical

Re: [Nix-dev] chromium fails to build

2014-04-01 Thread aszlig
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 01:21:04PM +0200, Mathijs Kwik wrote: I reverted the upgrade for file locally. This fixes chromium. should be fixed in 1ae4db3a80b7cd35bb9ea17464893b56664b17f9 and 51e449aabbc922faa00dc7b5cbd0f106eba7f928 and chromium now doesn't depend on file anymore. a! -- aszlig

Re: [Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

2014-04-01 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from Matthew Sackman's message of Tue Apr 01 11:12:32 + 2014: I'm guessing that the mechanical let's attempt to translate $language-specific-deps-file into nix has been tried and found wanting? I can see there's the node-packages-generated.nix, and others, but is that approach

Re: [Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

2014-04-01 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 04:42:50PM +, Marc Weber wrote: We should not be against a new option, we should think harder about collaborating so that all targets will work - which one is the best fit for use cases - future might tell. Indeed. One of the things that seems (at least to me) wrong

Re: [Nix-dev] chromium fails to build

2014-04-01 Thread Bjørn Forsman
On 1 April 2014 18:01, aszlig asz...@redmoonstudios.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 01:21:04PM +0200, Mathijs Kwik wrote: I reverted the upgrade for file locally. This fixes chromium. should be fixed in 1ae4db3a80b7cd35bb9ea17464893b56664b17f9 and 51e449aabbc922faa00dc7b5cbd0f106eba7f928

Re: [Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

2014-04-01 Thread Marc Weber
Please think the other way round: - most linux distributions (exceptions LFS I know about) want to install packages Some packages (such as gnome) have dependency information, but only encoded in configure scripts or READMEs. Rubyforge and PyPi (don't know what's current in python

Re: [Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

2014-04-01 Thread Sergey Mironov
Hi! Interesting project, but I mostly agree with Colin: asynchronous programming is hard and in my opinion wouldn't become a 'killer feature'. More, I am sure there are concepts in functional languages which will overcome the callback-passing approach of JavaScript. I think, Haskell's continuation

Re: [Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

2014-04-01 Thread Sergey Mironov
OK, april 1st? 2014-04-01 23:11 GMT+04:00 Sergey Mironov grr...@gmail.com: Hi! Interesting project, but I mostly agree with Colin: asynchronous programming is hard and in my opinion wouldn't become a 'killer feature'. More, I am sure there are concepts in functional languages which will

Re: [Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

2014-04-01 Thread Gergely Risko
Guys, Wasn't this replace Nix with JavaScript in a community of folks who love purity, lazyness and high-level languages post an April's fools? Check the date! Or am I mistaken and is this a serious proposal? Confused, Gergely On Tue, 1 Apr 2014 10:43:15 -0500, Colin Putney co...@wiresong.com

Re: [Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

2014-04-01 Thread Sander van der Burg - EWI
Hello everbody, It seems that my blog post caused quite a bit of discussion, which I really appreciate! I have decided to update my blog post with some additional notes based on the discussion: http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2014/04/asynchronous-package-management-with.html

[Nix-dev] pkg-config: update and avoid patching?

2014-04-01 Thread Thomas Strobel
Hi there, I was just trying to track down problems I have compiling some source under NixOS, and it seems as pkg-config is causing some trouble. That's why I wanted to bring up issue #292 again: Broken pkg-config patch for Requires.private Are there any plans to integrate a newer version of

Re: [Nix-dev] oraclejdk7 dependencies in nixpkgs (commit: 5d6fdd8abbb576357844701b9cbffed033099128)

2014-04-01 Thread 宋文武
Gergely Risko gerg...@risko.hu writes: Benno, can you please clarify how do you know that ffmpeg_0_6 is a dependency and normal ffmpeg (0.10 currently) won't fit? +1, IIRC ffmpeg_0_10 should be fine (see PR #1636) ___ nix-dev mailing list

Re: [Nix-dev] pkg-config: update and avoid patching?

2014-04-01 Thread Vladimír Čunát
Hi. On 04/02/2014 02:43 AM, Thomas Strobel wrote: That's why I wanted to bring up issue #292 again: Broken pkg-config patch for Requires.private I think it's better to discuss it in the issue directly; it's even open. Are there any plans to integrate a newer version of pkg-config and to