Re: [Nix-dev] nixpkgs and external package databases

2012-02-06 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Florian, We have hackage, pypi, marmalade, cpan, ctan and probably many more - all databases of packages for some language or tool. How do we want to handle them? I would love to provide helpful insights into that subject, but unfortunately I don't know much about the respective

Re: [Nix-dev] nixpkgs and external package databases

2012-02-06 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:36:22 +0100, Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to wrote: Hi Florian, We have hackage, pypi, marmalade, cpan, ctan and probably many more - all databases of packages for some language or tool. How do we want to handle them? I would love to provide helpful insights into

Re: [Nix-dev] nixpkgs and external package databases

2012-02-06 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from Florian Friesdorf's message of Mon Feb 06 04:10:03 +0100 2012: the topic was brought already but I could not find a conclusive answer to it - if I missed it, I would be glad if you could point me to it. Let me keep the story short: I've posted about it:

[Nix-dev] nixpkgs and external package databases

2012-02-05 Thread Florian Friesdorf
Hi, the topic was brought already but I could not find a conclusive answer to it - if I missed it, I would be glad if you could point me to it. We have hackage, pypi, marmalade, cpan, ctan and probably many more - all databases of packages for some language or tool. How do we want to handle