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| 18 Jan 2025 | ||
| It gets the tarball with the hash from hackage, and, I assume, gets the rest of the deps from nixpkgs. | 22:48:12 | |
| 22:48:43 | |
| right, but it doesnt know which deps, so it has to do a FOD or IFD | 22:48:58 | |
In reply to @implicit_operative:matrix.orgYeah that uses ifd | 22:57:30 | |
| FYI, using `sha256 = ""` does the same AAAA screaming | 23:04:36 | |
| that i know and it was the highlight of that years nix releases :) | 23:13:21 | |
| hear hear | 23:37:59 | |
| 19 Jan 2025 | ||
| They're fundamentally in conflict. You only avoid conflict precisely by applying them loosely. :) DRY, applied religiously, requires you to define abstractions very early that allow slightly different use cases to share common expressions. But abstractions have a cost. Copy/paste/modify is often cheaper. And most importantly, it requires a lot less careful thought. Wasting brainpower to develop a thoughtful abstraction for something that will never have more than two use cases is a shame. That's really the essence of YAGNI. | 12:22:37 | |
In reply to @b:chreekat.netIt's a very interesting dispute in our company. Our code is very YAGNI but the newer part of the team, mostly juniors, me included, have mostly heard the DRY gospel. | 12:35:47 | |
| Everytime my boss comes with a new requirement and it's a three liner for me because there is exactly one central function for it I am sooo happy. | 12:37:32 | |
| Whereas applying the same API change roughly 15 times to slight variations of the same code drives me mad. | 12:38:17 | |
| Otoh abstracting over those 15 slight variations would (have been) be quite a lot of work. | 12:40:12 | |
In reply to @b:chreekat.net That's hardly the bare minimum needed to avoid repetition. Perhaps DRY fails to explicitly account for the idea that some repetition is needed for defining things that are different even though they seem similar. For me, problems like this tend to go away when I model the problem more carefully. | 13:24:44 | |
| I think when modeling things more carefully always makes the result better. The question is does it make the process more efficient. | 13:28:32 | |
I've updated the hscurses library a little bit; in particular its new version would no longer need the line hscurses = addExtraLibrary pkgs.ncurses super.hscurses; in configuration-nix.nix (but would need to inherit ncurses from pkgs instead in the mkDerivation call in hackage-packages.nix instead in order to not pull in the Haskell lib named ncurses). Is the version update + the latter step something that's automagically made somehow? Or would that need a PR somewhere? | 13:53:33 | |
* I've updated the hscurses library a little bit; in particular its new version would no longer need the line hscurses = addExtraLibrary pkgs.ncurses super.hscurses; in configuration-nix.nix (but would need to inherit ncurses from pkgs instead in the mkDerivation call in hackage-packages.nix instead in order to not pull in the Haskell lib named ncurses). Is the version update + the latter step something that's automagically made somehow? Or would that need a PR somewhere? (My guess would be that changing configuration-nix.nix is a manual step?) | 13:54:12 | |
Changes in configuration-nix.nix and configuration-common.nix are always manual steps. However the version updates are automatic. It happens about once every two weeks on the haskell-updates branch in Nixpkgs. (Although now its more like once a month or so?) Here's an example PR where you can see the version updates happen: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/371032 | 14:03:26 | |
Cool, thanks! If I (or you) would want to make the above changes after the update to hscurses is through (and the package is then presumably marked broken), we'd then have to PR to haskell-updates when a new draft PR is made? | 14:07:08 | |
And if hackage-packages.nix is automatically generated: is that mechanism smart enough to detect that the ncurses argument is not meaning haskellPackages.ncurses, but needs to be overridden with { inherit (pkgs) ncurses: }? | 14:10:08 | |
* And if hackage-packages.nix is automatically generated: is that mechanism smart enough to detect that the ncurses argument is not supposed to need haskellPackages.ncurses, but needs to be overridden with { inherit (pkgs) ncurses: }? | 14:11:39 | |
I'd recommend using haskell.lib.compose.overrideSrc since that deals with hackage revisions and allows further haskell specific overrides. | 19:12:17 | |
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| 20 Jan 2025 | ||
| 10:22:02 | ||
| chreekat linj: Thanks for the hints back then. Does haskell.lib.compose.overrideCabal (as in both pretty-simple and nixfmt-rfc-style) can do the same as
I really need ghc910 (GHC2024). | 17:19:09 | |
| * chreekat linj: Thanks for the hints back then. Does haskell.lib.compose.overrideCabal (as in both given derivation examples pretty-simple and nixfmt-rfc-style) can do the same as
I really need ghc910 (GHC2024). | 17:19:41 | |
In reply to @joaomoreira:matrix.orgfor reference | 17:20:54 | |
| otherwise, how can I do it? | 17:21:59 | |
| you can apply overrideCabal in an overlay for ghc910, just need nested // | 18:31:24 | |
| ``` haskell = nixpkgs.haskell // { packages = nixpkgs.haskell.packages // { "${compiler}" = nixpkgs.haskell.packages.${compiler}.override(old: { overrides = self: super: { mypkg = overrideCabal super.mypkg (drv: ...) } }); }; }; }; ``` | 18:37:05 | |
| This sort of thjng | 18:37:08 | |