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0 pointschriswarbo11y ago0 comments

Nix is pretty great.

Something to be aware of for Haskell: Nix's Haskell infrastructure has gone through a big breaking change recently. It's settled down now, and the new system (AKA "haskell NG") is much nicer, but all of the "stable" releases are using the old system, and a lot of blog posts, etc. online are now out of date.

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cr__11y ago· 3 in thread

Do you have any links on how the new system is supposed to work? I'm trying to piece it together and I'm not having much luck.

loevborg11y ago

As I understand it, the corresponding section of the nixpkgs manual is being written as we speak; when this is done, it should reflect the new haskell infrastructure which was merged a few months ago (no longer called haskell-ng any more btw). In the meantime, here are a few links to get you started:

https://twitter.com/garbas/status/601717689225187328 -- a recent presentation w/ accompanying slides introducing Nix's new haskell infrastructure by github.com/peti, the maintainer

https://nixos.org/wiki/Haskell

http://wiki.ocharles.org.uk/Nix

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29033580/how-do-i-use-the...

cr__11y ago

The ocharles link is exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks so much.

rev11y ago

Nix wiki lists some: https://nixos.org/wiki/Haskell#Other_resources.

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