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15 Aug 2021
@nixinator:nixos.devnixinatorsigh...you are absolutel correct.21:53:15
@nixinator:nixos.devnixinator * sigh...you are absolutely correct.21:53:29
@nixinator:nixos.devnixinatorso whats the solution @mic9221:56:07
@nixinator:nixos.devnixinatoralso, i'd be interested to see what fixes you made to autotools? i strongly believe perfect design is not how many features you can add, but when you can't take anything more away, same goes for dependencies and code reuse. In a perfect world a single application is self contained, and doesn't rely on anything. But it's far from a perfect world, hence DLL hell, dependency nightmares... and it 'work's on my machine syndrome'. That's why i picked up nix, because it really is trying to solve these problems, without containers like docker to build complex software projects . 22:07:32
16 Aug 2021
@Las:matrix.orgLas
In reply to @nixinator:nixos.dev
so whats the solution @mic92
You could make an ad-hoc build system
07:35:29
@Las:matrix.orgLasIt doesn't have to do caching, since it's for bootstrapping07:35:40
@gytis-ivaskevicius:matrix.orgGytis Ivaskevicius Latest nixpkgs fails to build nix due to , withAWS ? !enableStatic && (stdenv.isLinux || stdenv.isDarwin), aws-sdk-cpp 12:21:29
@gytis-ivaskevicius:matrix.orgGytis Ivaskevicius👀12:21:35
@gytis-ivaskevicius:matrix.orgGytis Ivaskevicius and its release-21.05 12:21:46
@gytis-ivaskevicius:matrix.orgGytis Ivaskeviciusi swear i must be high or something super unprofessional happend12:22:07
@toonn:matrix.orgtoonn The branch or the channel? Because I assume the channel has checks to prevent propagation when nix fails to build. 12:24:11
@gytis-ivaskevicius:matrix.orgGytis IvaskeviciusI guess the branch. Im on flakes12:24:34
@manveru:matrix.orgmanveru Eelco Dolstra: anything left to do for https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/4922 ? 15:52:31
@fzakaria:matrix.orgfzakariawhat's the best approach to build Nix incrementally?16:44:27
@fzakaria:matrix.orgfzakariaIs it through nix-shell steps?16:44:47
@tomberek:matrix.orgtomberek fzakaria: https://hydra.nixos.org/build/149934349/download/1/manual/contributing/hacking.html 16:47:19
@mic92:nixos.devMic92 fzakaria: use nix develop instead of nix-shell so 16:53:25
@mic92:nixos.devMic92 nix-shell technically works but nix develop should be faster 16:53:39
@mic92:nixos.devMic92ah. it mentiones that16:53:47
@fzakaria:matrix.orgfzakariayea i guess i could upstream a note mentioning that is preferred if you want incremental since nix-build throws it away in /tmp16:54:17
@fzakaria:matrix.orgfzakaria(would be cool if nix-build could make use of a ccache so you get nix-build simple invocation but also incremental)16:54:37
@fzakaria:matrix.orgfzakariaalso if there are attributes to build individual binaries nix-build -A nix16:54:53
@mic92:nixos.devMic92I think there was some impure thing in nixpkgs that did that.16:55:10
@mic92:nixos.devMic92I rather prefer not a sandbox so if I want to debug stuff.16:55:24
@fzakaria:matrix.orgfzakariaoh i see ccacheStdenv; i'll have to read up on that.16:58:09
@fzakaria:matrix.orgfzakaria(I haven't enabled nix develop yet.. i'm one of those people... lol)16:58:19
18 Aug 2021
@siraben:matrix.orgsiraben changed their display name from siraben to siraben (he/him).19:38:02
@abathur:matrix.orgabathur Someone in https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/5143 is trying to build/install nix on ChromeOS, just in case anyone can spare them the trouble or give them advice? 22:37:04
20 Aug 2021
@gytis-ivaskevicius:matrix.orgGytis IvaskeviciusI was wondering what is the reason for builtins.fetchGit / builtins.fetchTarball not returning a derivation?10:04:57
@Las:matrix.orgLas Gytis Ivaskevicius: you can builtins.readFile or import from them then 10:27:41

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