Re: [Nix-dev] experience packager or coder to help me with cinnamon

2013-11-29 Thread Domen Kožar
I'd also recommend taking it slow - cinnamon is a big beast to package. Nix has a steep learning curve and you should take that seriously. Learning basics of Nix through usage and then pairing up with someone are the steps I would recommend. Good luck, Domen On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Ma

Re: [Nix-dev] experience packager or coder to help me with cinnamon

2013-11-29 Thread Malcolm Matalka
Not to be rude, but I don't think this kind of rhetoric will get you far. I offered a suggestion for trying simpler packages first. Roelof Wobben writes: > If nobody is responding then I have to quit porting cinnamon to Nixos and > maybe quit Nixos. > > From: rwob...@hotmail.com > To: nix-de

Re: [Nix-dev] experience packager or coder to help me with cinnamon

2013-11-29 Thread Bardur Arantsson
On 2013-11-29 09:29, Roelof Wobben wrote: > If nobody is responding then I have to quit porting cinnamon to Nixos and > maybe quit Nixos. > It might help to try posting some of the actual error messages you're seeing. It's hard to help if all that's known is "it doesn't work". You should proba

Re: [Nix-dev] experience packager or coder to help me with cinnamon

2013-11-29 Thread Roelof Wobben
If nobody is responding then I have to quit porting cinnamon to Nixos and maybe quit Nixos. From: rwob...@hotmail.com To: nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl Subject: experience packager or coder to help me with cinnamon Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 19:31:29 + Hello, Im now 3 days at work to make c

Re: [Nix-dev] experience packager or coder to help me with cinnamon

2013-11-28 Thread Malcolm Matalka
Perhaps you could work your way up to Cinnamon by contributing packages for simpler things first. Roelof Wobben writes: > Hello, > > Im now 3 days at work to make cinnamon-desktop working so Nixos can have > Cinnamon 2.x > It looks like to me the configure and make files are really broken.

[Nix-dev] experience packager or coder to help me with cinnamon

2013-11-28 Thread Roelof Wobben
Hello, Im now 3 days at work to make cinnamon-desktop working so Nixos can have Cinnamon 2.x It looks like to me the configure and make files are really broken. On make I see several error messages about missing and not found error messages. Now I wonder if there is a experienced packager o