[Nix-dev] Call for participation at the Augsburger Linux-Infotag 2016 (Germany)

Dear Nix developers, on 2016-04-16, the Linux User Group Augsburg e.V. will host a yearly regional Linux day -- for the 15h time. This is by far not an international event, but we are the biggest such event in Southern Germany, expecting 300 visitors. We'd welcome a talk, workshop, or booth on

[Nix-dev] Using Nix as the preferred package manager for a new language

Hi! I've tried to start this discussion a couple times on IRC, but it hasn't really gotten attention, so: I'm one of the developers of Monte, a new programming language. We don't want to write a package manager, because package managers are hard. (Also we've been watching npm happen for the past

Re: [Nix-dev] Using Nix as the preferred package manager for a new language

Quoting stewart mackenzie (2016-02-09 18:32:01) > We're doing almost exactly this at github.com/fractalide/fractalide. > Fractalide is a Flow-based programming language implemented in Rust > > We're also facing many of the issues you are :-) > > Rust has a slow compilation, so nix's lazy

Re: [Nix-dev] Using Nix as the preferred package manager for a new language

There are so many details to distributing software. Let me quickly take a try to dump my thoughts. Have a static metadata file that is well defined (has a specification with a version number of the format). If you pick JSON, be aware it doesn't allow comments by specification. If you add

Re: [Nix-dev] Using Nix as the preferred package manager for a new language

Hi, While I don't work on any new language I do work with large sets of packages which I have to keep stable and at the same time develop them. What bothers me with in most programming languages and their package managers is that there is no known-good-set of working together packages. Stackage

Re: [Nix-dev] Installing /nix on nfs-mounted volume possible?

I’ve used a shared nix store between VMs in the past, until the sqlite database got corrupted… If I’d do it again, I would configure a single build VM ( nix.buildMachines ) and set nix.maxJobs to 0. That guarantees all builds are executed on this one machine. Any nix store copying after the

Re: [Nix-dev] Installing /nix on nfs-mounted volume possible?

> On Feb 8, 2016, at 10:15 AM, Wout Mertens wrote: > The problem with nfs nix stores is that the metadata is stored in sqlite, > which can't guarantee proper locking on nfs. However, if you only write from > one host, there is no problem. > > As for the python stuff,