[Nix-dev] RFC: three dying pull requests (let's keep them alive)

2014-08-27 Thread Daniel Peebles
I've noticed a bit of a pattern recently on the nix github and wanted to try to stop it before Shea Levy decided this sort of work wasn't worth his time anymore. I'm not proposing that we insta-merge all his changes, but can anyone interested at least chime in with feedback so that these pull

Re: [Nix-dev] RFC: three dying pull requests (let's keep them alive)

2014-08-27 Thread John Wiegley
Daniel Peebles pumpkin...@gmail.com writes: I've noticed a bit of a pattern recently on the nix github and wanted to try to stop it before Shea Levy decided this sort of work wasn't worth his time anymore. I'm not proposing that we insta-merge all his changes, but can anyone interested at

Re: [Nix-dev] RFC: three dying pull requests (let's keep them alive)

2014-08-27 Thread Shea Levy
We've been using the fully-modular branch + modular nixops at zalora for months: github.com/zalora/nixpkgs github.com/zalora/nixops. Recursive nix is unused because it was unfinished and it was too much potential work to keep going without some sign it would be merged. On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at

Re: [Nix-dev] RFC: three dying pull requests (let's keep them alive)

2014-08-27 Thread John Wiegley
Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com writes: Recursive nix is unused because it was unfinished and it was too much potential work to keep going without some sign it would be merged. Then I vote for a review of recursive nix, and to merge in the other two as they stand. Can you help me understand

Re: [Nix-dev] RFC: three dying pull requests (let's keep them alive)

2014-08-27 Thread Raahul Kumar
One note: * edolstra https://github.com/edolstra * commented on Feb 28 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/213#issuecomment-36334864 Probably best to do it after 1.7. So Eelco is okay with a merge of recursive nix. https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/213 I'm impressed by the volume of work Shea