urweb requires C/C++ libraries (eventually).
AFAIK C/C++ package managers don't exist (dependency information) - they
are "encoded in configure scripts and whatnot" - for some universes
(gnome) there are dependency informations available eventually.
Thus for that use case nix is a good fit,
Hi, List. I've just noticed a long topic regarding using NIx as a
package manager for a language. Сoincidentally, I use Nix for the same
purpose: I am working on packaging UrWeb libraries using Nix.
Here is the combinators library I wrote
[1] -
If you don't mind I'll use this thread as the umbrella "nix as yet
another language package manager" issue thread.
I want to do this:
create a derivation that creates a shell file.
This shell file does one thing and one thing only: it creates a custom
virtual machine depending on the inputs of
