I think npm is using that as well (https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json
).
+1 for the idea.
2016-03-29 12:33 GMT+00:00 Arseniy Seroka :
> Hi guys. I saw post about guix release and there was introduced a '@'
> delimiter in pkg's name to separate version from name.
I would say it maybe doesn't matter for main nix repo and nixpkgs. But when
you have your development platform with private packages this can be an
issue.
I have the situation now where I have one repo with private packages but
for different projects I use different versions of the same package.
> On Mar 30, 2016, at 1:55 AM, Jakob Gillich wrote:
>
> FYI npm also uses @ for this purpose (e.g. npm install foo@1.0). I don't
> think I ever had to escape it (?).
I don’t know about Guix, but with NPM, version names are much more important
than they are with nix. NPM uses
2016-03-30 17:31 GMT+00:00 Vladimír Čunát :
> On 03/30/2016 04:42 PM, Tomasz Czyż wrote:
> > There is any rule for transforming app name + version to attribute name?
>
> None AFAIK. And there's a related rule to strive to avoid using multiple
> versions and avoid specifying the
On 03/30/2016 04:42 PM, Tomasz Czyż wrote:
> There is any rule for transforming app name + version to attribute name?
None AFAIK. And there's a related rule to strive to avoid using multiple
versions and avoid specifying the version in attribute name at all.
--Vladimir
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On 03/30/2016 12:02 PM, Peter Simons wrote:
> Besides, I thought the universally agreed best way forward was to drop
> the notion of installing packages "by name" from the CLI anyway?
True, we push towards using attribute names instead. There can be
version embedded in attribute names, e.g. we
On 03/30/2016 11:35 AM, Peter Simons wrote:
> I thought the universally agreed best way forward was to keep the
> version number in a separate $version attribute anyway?
That doesn't seem to address disambiguation on the command-line.
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I thought the universally agreed best way forward was to keep the
version number in a separate $version attribute anyway?
Best regards,
Peter
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On 03/30/2016 10:55 AM, Jakob Gillich wrote:
> FYI npm also uses @ for this purpose (e.g. npm install foo@1.0). I don't
> think I ever had to escape it (?).
Oh, thanks! I'm sorry, I confused it with something else.
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FYI npm also uses @ for this purpose (e.g. npm install foo@1.0). I don't
think I ever had to escape it (?).
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016, at 10:32 AM, Vladimír Čunát wrote:
> On 03/29/2016 02:33 PM, Arseniy Seroka wrote:
> > I saw post about guix release and there was introduced a '@'
> > delimiter in
On 03/29/2016 02:33 PM, Arseniy Seroka wrote:
> I saw post about guix release and there was introduced a '@'
> delimiter in pkg's name to separate version from name. Maybe we can use it
> in nix too?
It seems rather unconventional and currently I can't see enough
advantages to convince me
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