[Ur] NixOS package

[Sergey Mironov]

s/NixOS is relatively modern/NixOS changes quickly/

2016-02-05 16:02 GMT+03:00 Sergey Mironov <grrwlf at gmail.com>:
> I think it is fine to add both links.  For Haskell packages, people do
> publish only the binary link (see
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/bzlib for example). But what does
> user expect to see is a non-trivial question. NixOS is relatively
> modern distribution and IMHO site doesn't represent the best way of
> installing packages: experienced user would not go for "one-click
> install" link on the site, but rather type 'nix-env -i <package>' to
> automatically select the binary (or build it from source if there is
> no binary in cache) and install it.
>
> 2016-02-02 17:45 GMT+03:00 Adam Chlipala <adamc at csail.mit.edu>:
>> Thanks!  Would it be idiomatic to link to both of the URLs you gave?  That
>> is, would a seasoned NixOS user expect to see the package
>> advertised/distributed in that way?
>>
>>
>> On 01/28/2016 03:44 PM, Sergey Mironov wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi. I noticed the 'Popular package systems' section on the main page.
>>> Could you please add link to NixOS (www.nixos.org) package?
>>>
>>> The binary url of a package:
>>>
>>> http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/trunk-combined/nixpkgs.urweb.x86_64-linux
>>>
>>>
>>> Build rule (for reference) is on the GitHub
>>>
>>> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/compilers/urweb/default.nix
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Sergey
>>
>>
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