Re: [Nix-dev] nix configuration language

2012-04-23 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from Ben Franksen's message of Mon Apr 23 10:53:26 +0200 2012: Would it be sensible or even possible to factor out the configuration language from the nix package and distribute it separately? Such things are always possible. I think you should talk about your use case first.

Re: [Nix-dev] nix configuration language

2012-04-23 Thread Ben Franksen
Marc Weber wrote: Excerpts from Ben Franksen's message of Mon Apr 23 10:53:26 +0200 2012: Would it be sensible or even possible to factor out the configuration language from the nix package and distribute it separately? Such things are always possible. I think you should talk about your use

Re: [Nix-dev] nix configuration language

2012-04-23 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from Ben Franksen's message of Mon Apr 23 12:42:14 +0200 2012: I don't know how I can execute a 'nix-language script'. Is there a tool in the nix package that I could use for that? the nix suite ships with test cases. If you look at those you'll find that its nix-instantiate

Re: [Nix-dev] nix configuration language

2012-04-23 Thread Ben Franksen
Marc Weber wrote: Excerpts from Ben Franksen's message of Mon Apr 23 12:42:14 +0200 2012: I don't know how I can execute a 'nix-language script'. Is there a tool in the nix package that I could use for that? the nix suite ships with test cases. If you look at those you'll find that its

Re: [Nix-dev] nix configuration language

2012-04-23 Thread Ben Franksen
Ben Franksen wrote: Checking out the nix sources via git, I can't even build it: ben@sarun[1]: .../tmp/nix git status # On branch master nothing to commit (working directory clean) ben@sarun[1]: .../tmp/nix ./bootstrap.sh autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not