[Nix-dev] Bundling nix-expressions with source code

[Vladimír Čunát]

On 01/24/2013 04:13 PM, Rickard Nilsson wrote:
> OK, I see why that is not feasible. The reason I ask, is that it seems
> reasonable that a Nix-aware upstream package developer should be able
> to define how the package should be built (dependencies, build flags etc),
> in tandem with the package development itself.
>
> I imagine that you in some way could define package names, versions,
> source url, source checksum and other metadata in nixpkgs, and then
> pick buildInputs, configureFlags etc from the source. But that is
> more or less what we do today anyway, with the difference that we
> pick a configure-script and a Makefile from the source instead of
> Nix-expressions.

I see nix is getting quite popular :-)
The maintainer is of course welcome to maintain also the nix expression 
*within* nixpkgs, who else is a better candidate...


Vlada

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