[Nix-dev] monitor.nixos.org

Profpatsch mail at profpatsch.de
Mon Nov 28 21:42:13 CET 2016


On 16-11-28 03:11pm, Rok Garbas wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com> wrote:
> To start this we _only_ need to agree how we call this passthru
> attribute :) ... update, updateSrc, refresh, refreshSrc, nextVersion,
> ...

Exactly.
And of course the interface of what the script at this point should do.

I’m not sure how to apply the changes to the source files in a sane way.
No, regex replacement is definitely *not* a sane way.
To be fair, the lisp guys have an advantage of about half a century
with source code modification.

> Anyway I'm currently managing many projects like this which would be
> impossible to do if i wouldn't automate this.

Exactly.

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