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

Domen Kožar domen at dev.si
Fri Nov 29 11:18:37 CET 2013


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, Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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 <rwobben at hotmail.com> writes:
>
> > If nobody is responding then I have to quit porting cinnamon to Nixos
> and maybe quit Nixos.
> >
> > From: rwobben at hotmail.com
> > To: nix-dev at lists.science.uu.nl
> > Subject: experience packager or coder to help me with cinnamon
> > Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 19:31:29 +0000
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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 of coder who is willing
> to be a sort of mentor
> > so we get the packages working.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Roelof Wobben
> >
> >
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