[Nix-dev] Feature request: replace the Darwin stdenv with the pure Darwin stdenv

zimbatm zimbatm at zimbatm.com
Fri Oct 2 18:10:03 CEST 2015


Looking forward to see the merge happening. Right now Darwin is totally
unusable for me because of the OSX upgrade.

On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 at 16:52 Eric Seidel <eric at seidel.io> wrote:

> I'm tentatively in favor of making the switch too. I'm going to test my
> environment against pure-darwin this weekend.
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015, at 08:03, Anthony Cowley wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On Oct 2, 2015, at 10:26 AM, Daniel Peebles <pumpkingod at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > If nobody objects, I think we should just switch over. The only people
> interested in maintaining the darwin ecosystem on Nix don't really want to
> have to maintain two parallel stdenvs, and unless someone stands up to
> fight for the old impure stdenv, I think everyone will be long-term better
> off with the pure one. Yes, there will be some short- and medium-term pain
> during the switch, but there already is with the El Capitan upgrade.
> >
> > I vote to go ahead with this, too. Getting just a little help from hydra
> > in terms of binaries will make it a lot easier to contribute to
> > pure-Darwin.
> >
> > Anthony
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > >> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 3:01 AM, Michael Sperber <
> sperber at deinprogramm.de> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Daniel Peebles <pumpkingod at gmail.com> writes:
> > >>
> > >> > Probably obvious, but I'm in favor of switching/merging :)
> > >>
> > >> +1
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Regards,
> > >> Mike
> > >>
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