Re: [Nix-dev] Improving the Developer Experience in the NixCommunity

2012-06-27 Thread Michael Raskin
Continuing with a Java theme: the Java Advanced Imaging interfaces have a (default) pure java implementation as well as a native (accelerated) implementation. How should this be solved? Try find answers yourself. Its the same problem M.R. talked about if buildfarm uses optimiziations your

Re: [Nix-dev] Improving the Developer Experience in the NixCommunity

2012-06-27 Thread Michael Raskin
Excerpts from Shea Levy's message of Thu Jun 28 00:38:16 +0200 2012: Ok. Why was builderDefs rejected? What problems do you see with it, and what do others see? What does reject mean? I'd say it was not adopted (by me yet) because the existing monolitic setup.sh works good enough - I have my

Re: [Nix-dev] Improving the Developer Experience in the NixCommunity

2012-06-26 Thread Michael Raskin
Let's not forget that in the end we all compete with ubuntu, apple, Microsoft etc - because we all depend on a working system (to run our servers or write private mail) Actually, the core that is complex enough to need collaboration is quite small. I tried to share everything - with medium-easy

Re: [Nix-dev] Improving the Developer Experience in the NixCommunity

2012-06-26 Thread Marc Weber
free-nix as a chance: See happening to Mandriva / Mageia: http://www.linuxplanet.com/news/mandriva-rejoining-mageia-fork-as-mint-freshens-up-linux.html This post (German) says that 30 previous employees started this fork: