Re: [Nix-dev] Displaying package parameters

2016-03-21 Thread Fabian Schmitthenner
No, at least I haven't planned it. Also, IMHO we'd need to patch nixpkgs with [1] to be able to do this (then you can interactively view parameters of packages etc. interactively with nix-repl with a few nice functions). Part of this has been proposed here:

Re: [Nix-dev] Displaying package parameters

2016-03-21 Thread Roger Qiu
The demo works great now. On 22/03/2016 1:14 AM, "Fabian Schmitthenner" wrote: > No, at least I haven't planned it. Also, IMHO we'd need to patch nixpkgs > with [1] to be able to do this (then you can interactively view > parameters of packages etc. interactively with

Re: [Nix-dev] Displaying package parameters

2016-03-21 Thread Fabian Schmitthenner
No, at least I haven't planned it. Also, IMHO we'd need to patch nixpkgs with [1] to be able to do this (then you can interactively view parameters of packages etc. interactively with nix-repl with a few nice functions). Part of this has been proposed here:

Re: [Nix-dev] Displaying package parameters

2016-03-21 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 03/21/2016 02:30 PM, Roger Qiu wrote: > Just wanted to ask, is this package search enhanced with showing package > parameters planned to be added to the standard command line Nix query > tools? Or if it's already available and I haven't found it. I know of no such plans, and I don't think it

Re: [Nix-dev] Displaying package parameters

2016-03-21 Thread Roger Qiu
Just wanted to ask, is this package search enhanced with showing package parameters planned to be added to the standard command line Nix query tools? Or if it's already available and I haven't found it. On 9/03/2016 2:46 AM, Fabian Schmitthenner wrote: > I've added a few features: > > - Search

Re: [Nix-dev] Displaying package parameters

2016-03-11 Thread Fabian Schmitthenner
I've added a few features: - Search in 15.09 as well as 16.03 - Search in parameters - A few more packages with parameters are recognized, e. g. firefox now shows parameters - Better error handling: If a parameter fails while trying to determine what kind it is, it's simply not displayed, but

Re: [Nix-dev] Displaying package parameters

2016-03-08 Thread Fabian Schmitthenner
I've added a few features: - Search in 15.09 as well as 16.03 - Search in parameters - A few more packages with parameters are recognized, e. g. firefox now shows parameters - Better error handling: If a parameter fails while trying to determine what kind it is, it's simply not displayed, but

Re: [Nix-dev] Displaying package parameters

2016-03-05 Thread Matthias Beyer
On 29-02-2016 03:59:58, Fabian Schmitthenner wrote: > Hi! > > I just wanted to share that I tried displaying package parameters on the > nixos homepage and the current result can be seen here: > http://schmitthenner.eu/nixos-homepage/nixos/packages.html. > +1! I love it. It even shows opitonal

Re: [Nix-dev] Displaying package parameters

2016-03-04 Thread Tobias Pflug
Nice, I like that! Sent from my iPhone > On 29 Feb 2016, at 04:59, Fabian Schmitthenner > wrote: > > Hi! > > I just wanted to share that I tried displaying package parameters on the > nixos homepage and the current result can be seen here: >

[Nix-dev] Displaying package parameters

2016-02-28 Thread Fabian Schmitthenner
Hi! I just wanted to share that I tried displaying package parameters on the nixos homepage and the current result can be seen here: http://schmitthenner.eu/nixos-homepage/nixos/packages.html. When you click on a package, you hopefully see its parameter. This uses a heruristic to try to figure