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

There's some work on Nix on Windows: * https://nixos.org/wiki/Nix_on_Windows * https://ternaris.com/lab/nix-on-windows.html On 13/02/2016 12:01 AM, Philipp Hausmann wrote: Interestingly enough, we have some of the same questions for the Agda programming language. Currently, Agda doesn't really

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

Interestingly enough, we have some of the same questions for the Agda programming language. Currently, Agda doesn't really have any package manager, so there are no backwards-compatibility problems with using Nix. It would be really nice if we could use Nix as the one-and-only package management

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

If you don't want a new package manager, why a new language? 10 февр. 2016 г. 0:40 пользователь написал: > 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

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

Hi Thomas, (I'm unsure who you were addressing :-) but here's my response) I've been studying Peter and Gleb's work. This function is a thing of beauty: [1] On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Thomas Hunger wrote: > I think the idea is exciting but difficult. Some notes /

[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