From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17426 invoked by alias); 8 Sep 2015 14:17:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 17405 invoked by uid 89); 8 Sep 2015 14:17:53 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-la0-f51.google.com Received: from mail-la0-f51.google.com (HELO mail-la0-f51.google.com) (209.85.215.51) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 08 Sep 2015 14:17:46 +0000 Received: by lagj9 with SMTP id j9so70925932lag.2 for ; Tue, 08 Sep 2015 07:17:42 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.72.97 with SMTP id c1mr9007352lbv.86.1441721862451; Tue, 08 Sep 2015 07:17:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.25.158.204 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Sep 2015 07:17:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87si6p5f1n.fsf@eve.fritz.box> References: <87si6p5f1n.fsf@eve.fritz.box> Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2015 14:17:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Nix Package Manager for Cygwin and Reproducible cygwins From: Konstantin Dmitriev To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-09/txt/msg00126.txt.bz2 2015-09-08 17:25 GMT+06:00 Florian Friesdorf : > > Hi, > > we'd like to announce that we ported the nix package manager and a > preliminary set of its package definitions to cgywin. > > Our work is detailed here: > http://ternaris.com/lab/nix-on-windows.html > > As part of it we are describing obstacles we encountered and how we set > up a custom mirror to provide our own packages and gain reproducible > cygwin environments. > > Please let us know if you have any questions/feedback. > > regards Hello, Florian! Thank you for sharing this! I am very interested in the future step - using nix to compile native Windows binaries. Will keep an eye on your work. ^__^ Best Regards, K. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple