[Haskell-cafe] Listing native package requirements based on cabal information

[Michal Antkiewicz]

This is not an immediate solution but I can imagine listing NIX packages as
dependencies inside a cabal file, then NIX would create a sandbox with
these dependencies and cabal would build in that sandbox. The advantages
are that you're not messing around with the underlying operating system's
packages, NIX handles all dependencies transitively, and everything is
specified declaratively. Sounds like a nice GSoC project :-)  You could
also do cross GHC version's builds as GHC itself can be sandboxed. Quite
intriguing.

Michal


On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Michal Antkiewicz <
mantkiew at gsd.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> Certainly NIX is an interesting approach. It already comes with a large
> base of dependencies, a format for specifying them. NIX can be installed in
> any Linux distro and serve as an environment for building packages. That
> might provide a cross-distribution solution to the native dependency
> problem.
>
> See, a nice post by Oliver Charles
>
> http://ocharles.org.uk/blog/posts/2014-02-04-how-i-develop-with-nixos.html
>
> Michal
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:59 PM, David Thomas <davidleothomas at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Ok, well, if that's the case I'd like to see about remedying that.
>> Anyone have any thoughts as to how to best go about this?  I'm not clear on
>> exactly what info lives where, especially across systems.  Entirely manual
>> population would be a (barely) acceptable fallback.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Dan Burton <danburton.email at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I have wished for this on multiple occasions. I don't believe such a
>>> thing exists as of yet.
>>>
>>> -- Dan Burton
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:26 AM, David Thomas <davidleothomas at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there a way to extract this?  I'm looking to make it easier for
>>>> newcomers to my project to get things building across different linux
>>>> distros.
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