Re: GNUstep on NixOS

[Fred Kiefer]

Hi, would you mind to tell us about the hacks you needed to apply to get
GNUstep and a few applications running on NixOS? Maybe some of these
changes are of general interest.

Cheers
Fred


Am 02.12.2014 um 05:23 schrieb Artyom Shalkhakov:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've been doing some work to make GNUstep available on NixOS. [1]
> 
> NixOS [2] is a Linux distro based on Nix, the package manager which borrows 
> some concepts of purely functional programming to make builds reproducible. 
> Most importantly, it makes it easy for end-users to maintain separate 
> "enviroments" for different tasks.
> 
> Currently, I managed to build and run ProjectCenter and Gorm with a few hacks.
> 
> I plan to create an environment for building and running GNUstep 
> applications. It will allow developers to get started with up-to-date GNUstep 
> system with few command-line invocations.
> 
> Cheers,
> Artyom Shalkhakov
> 
> [1] https://github.com/ashalkhakov/nixpkgs/tree/gnustep
> [2] http://nixos.org/