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From: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
To: "Dom (shymega) Rodriguez" <shymega@shymega.org.uk>
Cc: devel@spectrum-os.org
Subject: Re: Flake support - what are your thoughts?
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2024 14:29:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87plpd2eoi.fsf@alyssa.is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CWLP265MB4157E92C768EACD888CBBC0E9E932@CWLP265MB4157.GBRP265.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>

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"Dom (shymega) Rodriguez" <shymega@shymega.org.uk> writes:

> Do you prefer `nix-shell`/`nix-build` or Flakes? Would you be satisfied if
> we had compatibility shims for these tools?

I think it's much better to have the flake.nix call into generic code
than having a wrapper around flake.nix — flake.nix files are often very
long with a lot of levels of indentation just for the Flakes stuff, so
it's nice to have the actual build stuff elsewhere to keep flake.nix
manageable.  Also, to have a compatibility shim, as I understand it you
end up needing a Nix implementation of Flakes (flake-compat).  In the
other direction, there's no need for anything like this.


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      reply	other threads:[~2024-09-09 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-04  7:00 Flake support - what are your thoughts? Dom (shymega) Rodriguez
2024-09-09 12:29 ` Alyssa Ross [this message]

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