Re: [Nix-dev] symbola font expression

2015-02-09 Thread Kirill Elagin
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/3504#issuecomment-54260503 I asked the author to provide stable URLs and I thought that he agreed to do this, but then he disappeared and didn’t respond to my last email. I’m not sure what was going on. You might try to ask him too, I hope you’ll be able to

Re: [Nix-dev] staging -- master merge imminent

2015-02-09 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Georges, There's a curl update PR (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/6171). Can it board that train, or should it wait for the next? IMHO, it looks innocent enough to be included: 7fc94dd3. Best regards, Peter ___ nix-dev mailing list

Re: [Nix-dev] Use Haskell for Shell Scripting

2015-02-09 Thread Ertugrul Söylemez
Also the Nix model allows us to compile all our scripts easily (just apply a function), which might hold some benefit in terms of startup and switch times. There is little reason to use interpreted scripts when you have a fast compiler. So would you say that this is preferable to the

Re: [Nix-dev] A few questions about ARM support and NixOS on a Chromebook

2015-02-09 Thread Harald van Dijk
On 09/02/2015 15:57, James Haigh wrote: On 09/02/15 14:16, Harald van Dijk wrote: On 09/02/2015 14:55, James Haigh wrote: On 28/01/15 07:42, Luke Clifton wrote: Hi Bjørn, I have read that thread. I agree with you 100% that native builds (on real or virtual hardware) is the only way this can

Re: [Nix-dev] Unstable Nixpkgs on stable NixOS (was: Automatically locking the screen with xautolock)

2015-02-09 Thread Michael Alyn Miller
The 02/08/2015 12:21, Jeffrey David Johnson wrote: Nice! I'm currently binding gksu 'i3lock -c00 pm-suspend' to a hotkey using i3, but this is better. Is there a standard way to get it in my fork of nixpkgs, which is tracking the release-14.12 branch? (I could just copy and paste but

Re: [Nix-dev] staging -- master merge imminent

2015-02-09 Thread Georges Dubus
There's a curl update PR (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/6171). Can it board that train, or should it wait for the next? Georges Dubus 2015-02-09 17:08 GMT+01:00 Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to: Hi guys, I would like to merge the staging branch back into master as soon as

Re: [Nix-dev] Use Haskell for Shell Scripting

2015-02-09 Thread Ertugrul Söylemez
To be fair, there is also the GNU OS, which uses Guix, although the underlying ideas and build system (nix-daemon) are the same. [...] As such, it's probably best for me to not talk about GNU OS, Guix, and Guile until I get the time/willpower to explain why my viewpoint against that project

Re: [Nix-dev] Use Haskell for Shell Scripting

2015-02-09 Thread James Haigh
On 09/02/15 15:22, Ertugrul Söylemez wrote: Also the Nix model allows us to compile all our scripts easily (just apply a function), which might hold some benefit in terms of startup and switch times. There is little reason to use interpreted scripts when you have a fast compiler. So would

Re: [Nix-dev] A few questions about ARM support and NixOS on a Chromebook

2015-02-09 Thread Luke Clifton
On 10 February 2015 at 03:58, James Haigh james.r.ha...@gmail.com wrote: Even for bootstrapping, it should still be possible to do without package support for cross-compilation. Compiling entirely within Qemu is one, perhaps crude, way of ‘fixing’ the build platform isolation problem in

Re: [Nix-dev] Proposed package for x2goclient

2015-02-09 Thread Bjørn Forsman
On 9 February 2015 at 22:13, Christoph-Simon Senjak christoph.sen...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello. I am new to NixOS, and I am currently trying to build a package for the x2goclient. Cool! Somewhere on my TODO list is writing an x2go service module :-) I brought it to a state where I can use

Re: [Nix-dev] Use Haskell for Shell Scripting

2015-02-09 Thread Ertugrul Söylemez
Maybe you need to script it properly? Maybe StumpWM is less rigid from the beginning, though (I use it and extended it for my needs, so I can probably answer your questions if you wonder about it; it is in Common Lisp, by default all the splits are manual, and there are many hooks to perform

[Nix-dev] Proposed package for x2goclient

2015-02-09 Thread Christoph-Simon Senjak
Hello. I am new to NixOS, and I am currently trying to build a package for the x2goclient. I brought it to a state where I can use it, but it would be nice if you could give me some comments about them.

Re: [Nix-dev] A few questions about ARM support and NixOS on a Chromebook

2015-02-09 Thread James Haigh
On 28/01/15 07:42, Luke Clifton wrote: Hi Bjørn, I have read that thread. I agree with you 100% that native builds (on real or virtual hardware) is the only way this can work. Upstream doesn't usually care if their software can cross compile, and they can't maintain it themselves even if

Re: [Nix-dev] Can we please have text-only on this ML?

2015-02-09 Thread Ertugrul Söylemez
My issue with text-only is that I don't know how to turn off hard-wrapping in my client. By ‘hard-wrapping’ I mean: That's always something that bothered me about e-mail (among other things). There are only two formats that are widely supported, and none of them get it right. The text/plain

Re: [Nix-dev] A few questions about ARM support and NixOS on a Chromebook

2015-02-09 Thread Harald van Dijk
On 09/02/2015 14:55, James Haigh wrote: On 28/01/15 07:42, Luke Clifton wrote: Hi Bjørn, I have read that thread. I agree with you 100% that native builds (on real or virtual hardware) is the only way this can work. Upstream doesn't usually care if their software can cross compile, and they

[Nix-dev] ARM NixOS chroot'ing for Android and ChromiumOS

2015-02-09 Thread James Haigh
Hello, How many NixOS users have an ARM-based Android smartphone and prefer NixOS to Android? Being able to chroot NixOS to Android in the same manner as the Lil' Debi chroot installer application to have a decent GNU+Linux distribution running alongside the default Linux-based system would be

Re: [Nix-dev] Use Haskell for Shell Scripting

2015-02-09 Thread James Haigh
On 09/02/15 19:56, Ertugrul Söylemez wrote: [...] In short: Better stop arguing against them, regardless of what your reasons are. [...] I'm not; I'm avoiding argument. Please don't make assumptions as to what my reasons are! Otherwise your mind is arguing ‘for me’, but not necessarily with

Re: [Nix-dev] A few questions about ARM support and NixOS on a Chromebook

2015-02-09 Thread James Haigh
On 03/02/15 13:59, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 04:16:07PM +0100, Bjørn Forsman wrote: On 2 February 2015 at 01:17, Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.name wrote: I have the bootstrap-tools for armv5tel, they build and the test passes.

Re: [Nix-dev] Use Haskell for Shell Scripting

2015-02-09 Thread James Haigh
On 30/01/15 16:02, Joe Hillenbrand wrote: http://www.haskellforall.com/2015/01/use-haskell-for-shell-scripting.html Time to replace all shell scripts in Nix with Haskell? No, certainly _now_ is way too early to replace _all_, but possibly _some_, and starting with just the functional

Re: [Nix-dev] Can we please have text-only on this ML?

2015-02-09 Thread Marc Weber
benefits text: - minimal bandwidth - user can configure his/her client how to view - looks always the same - no js Thus why are discussing HTML at all - for making some texts *bold*? HTML also runs the risk to not be displayed the same everywhere - eg google mail rewrites inline styles

Re: [Nix-dev] A few questions about ARM support and NixOS on a Chromebook

2015-02-09 Thread James Haigh
On 09/02/15 16:01, Harald van Dijk wrote: On 09/02/2015 15:57, James Haigh wrote: [...] But what I'm saying is that if the package succeeds in compiling natively but fails to cross-compile, then this is an issue with the compiler/toolchain. Yes it can be solved by writing configure scripts

Re: [Nix-dev] Use Haskell for Shell Scripting

2015-02-09 Thread Ertugrul Söylemez
In short: Better stop arguing against them, [...] I'm not; [...] Alright. =) In the ideal graphical environment I wouldn't see any reason to close or move a single window -- ever. Xmonad gets closer, but is still far away. What?!! That sounds very abstract and cool! Maybe esoteric.

Re: [Nix-dev] Can we please have text-only on this ML?

2015-02-09 Thread James Haigh
On 06/02/15 12:41, Matthias Beyer wrote: Hi, can we please have text-only on this ML? Maybe even through a mailman setting, so it rejects non-text-only-mail? My issue with text-only is that I don't know how to turn off hard-wrapping in my client. By ‘hard-wrapping’ I mean: this is hard-

Re: [Nix-dev] Use Haskell for Shell Scripting

2015-02-09 Thread Ertugrul Söylemez
Thanks! However, I'd better not switch to a WM that I wouldn't enjoy configuring. Also I think that I've bent xmonad pretty much to its limits and hit the abstraction wall. Nowadays my configuration is a whole cabalised package that I install via Nix. If you're interested, it's online

Re: [Nix-dev] A few questions about ARM support and NixOS on a Chromebook

2015-02-09 Thread James Haigh
On 09/02/15 14:16, Harald van Dijk wrote: On 09/02/2015 14:55, James Haigh wrote: On 28/01/15 07:42, Luke Clifton wrote: Hi Bjørn, I have read that thread. I agree with you 100% that native builds (on real or virtual hardware) is the only way this can work. Upstream doesn't usually care if