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use something other than `default.nix` for `work-on`

Open daig opened this issue 8 years ago • 1 comments

default.nix already has special treatment for nix. The way it is now, the default.nix for nix and the default.nix for work-on are incompatible.

The name doesn't really matter, but I propose cabal.nix since it's usually the result of cabal2nix.

The motivating workflow I'd like to support is having a default.nix usable directly by nix to build the project, pulling dependencies from the cabal file via cabal2nixResult, and still be able to use work-on without the (invalid for work-on) default.nix taking precedence over the *.cabal file. This way, the source of truth is the cabal file, which cannot become desynced from the .nix file. In this case I'm not using the cabal.nix at all but it remains available for those who want it - maybe I'm missing some benefit of using nix'd cabal deps rather than the cabal file directly.

daig avatar Feb 25 '17 17:02 daig

The issue here is that we just use callPackage. Nix itself checks default.nix if you run callPackage on a directory.

But, I think we should be able to support this use case! We just want to make the *.cabal file have higher priority than the default.nix file.

Possible fix in https://github.com/reflex-frp/reflex-platform/pull/444.

matthewbauer avatar Jan 17 '19 22:01 matthewbauer