python-cryptography: FIX missing pytz dependency

.editorconfig

@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-# EditorConfig configuration for nixpkgs
-# http://EditorConfig.org
-
-# Top-most EditorConfig file
-root = true
-
-# Unix-style newlines with a newline ending every file, utf-8 charset
-[*]
-end_of_line = lf
-insert_final_newline = true
-trim_trailing_whitespace = true
-charset = utf-8
-
-# see https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#chap-conventions
-
-# Match nix/ruby files, set indent to spaces with width of two
-[*.{nix,rb}]
-indent_style = space
-indent_size = 2
-
-# Match shell/python/perl scripts, set indent to spaces with width of four
-[*.{sh,py,pl}]
-indent_style = space
-indent_size = 4
-
-# Match diffs, avoid to trim trailing whitespace
-[*.{diff,patch}]
-trim_trailing_whitespace = false

.github/CODEOWNERS

@@ -1,93 +0,0 @@
-# CODEOWNERS file
-#
-# This file is used to describe who owns what in this repository. This file does not
-# replace `meta.maintainers` but is instead used for other things than derivations
-# and modules, like documentation, package sets, and other assets.
-#
-# For documentation on this file, see https://help.github.com/articles/about-codeowners/
-# Mentioned users will get code review requests.
-
-# This file
-/.github/CODEOWNERS @edolstra
-
-# Libraries
-/lib                        @edolstra @nbp
-/lib/systems                @nbp @ericson2314
-
-# Nixpkgs Internals
-/default.nix                          @nbp
-/pkgs/top-level/default.nix           @nbp @Ericson2314
-/pkgs/top-level/impure.nix            @nbp @Ericson2314
-/pkgs/top-level/stage.nix             @nbp @Ericson2314
-/pkgs/stdenv
-/pkgs/build-support/cc-wrapper        @Ericson2314 @orivej
-/pkgs/build-support/bintools-wrapper  @Ericson2314 @orivej
-/pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks       @Ericson2314
-
-# NixOS Internals
-/nixos/default.nix          @nbp
-/nixos/lib/from-env.nix     @nbp
-/nixos/lib/eval-config.nix  @nbp
-/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/abstractions.xml      @nbp
-/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/config-file.xml       @nbp
-/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/config-syntax.xml     @nbp
-/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/modularity.xml        @nbp
-/nixos/doc/manual/development/assertions.xml          @nbp
-/nixos/doc/manual/development/meta-attributes.xml     @nbp
-/nixos/doc/manual/development/option-declarations.xml @nbp
-/nixos/doc/manual/development/option-def.xml          @nbp
-/nixos/doc/manual/development/option-types.xml        @nbp
-/nixos/doc/manual/development/replace-modules.xml     @nbp
-/nixos/doc/manual/development/writing-modules.xml     @nbp
-/nixos/doc/manual/man-nixos-option.xml                @nbp
-/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-option.sh        @nbp
-
-# Python-related code and docs
-/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix     @FRidh
-/pkgs/development/interpreters/python   @FRidh
-/pkgs/development/python-modules        @FRidh
-/doc/languages-frameworks/python.md     @FRidh
-
-# Haskell
-/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc                       @peti
-/pkgs/development/haskell-modules                     @peti
-/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/default.nix         @peti
-/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/generic-builder.nix @peti
-/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hoogle.nix          @peti
-
-# R
-/pkgs/applications/science/math/R   @peti
-/pkgs/development/r-modules         @peti
-
-# Ruby
-/pkgs/development/interpreters/ruby @zimbatm
-/pkgs/development/ruby-modules      @zimbatm
-
-# Darwin-related
-/pkgs/stdenv/darwin         @NixOS/darwin-maintainers
-/pkgs/os-specific/darwin    @NixOS/darwin-maintainers
-
-# Beam-related (Erlang, Elixir, LFE, etc)
-/pkgs/development/beam-modules                  @gleber
-/pkgs/development/interpreters/erlang           @gleber
-/pkgs/development/interpreters/lfe              @gleber
-/pkgs/development/interpreters/elixir           @gleber
-/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/rebar    @gleber
-/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/rebar3   @gleber
-/pkgs/development/tools/erlang                  @gleber
-
-# Jetbrains
-/pkgs/applications/editors/jetbrains @edwtjo
-
-# Eclipse
-/pkgs/applications/editors/eclipse @rycee
-
-# https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/31401
-/lib/maintainers.nix @ghost
-/lib/licenses.nix @ghost
-
-# Qt / KDE
-/pkgs/applications/kde @ttuegel
-/pkgs/desktops/plasma-5 @ttuegel
-/pkgs/development/libraries/kde-frameworks @ttuegel
-/pkgs/development/libraries/qt-5 @ttuegel

.github/CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -12,41 +12,21 @@ under the terms of [COPYING](../COPYING), which is an MIT-like license.
 
 ## Submitting changes
 
-* Format the commit messages in the following way:
+* Format the commits in the following way:
 
-  ```
-  (pkg-name | nixos/<module>): (from -> to | init at version | refactor | etc)
-
-  (Motivation for change. Additional information.)
-  ```
+  `(pkg-name | service-name): (from -> to | init at version | refactor | etc)`
 
   Examples:
 
   * nginx: init at 2.0.1
-  * firefox: 54.0.1 -> 55.0
-  * nixos/hydra: add bazBaz option
-
-    Dual baz behavior is needed to do foo.
-  * nixos/nginx: refactor config generation
-
-    The old config generation system used impure shell scripts and could break in specific circumstances (see #1234).
+  * firefox: 3.0 -> 3.1.1
+  * hydra service: add bazBaz option
+  * nginx service: refactor config generation
 
 * `meta.description` should:
-  * Be capitalized.
-  * Not start with the package name.
-  * Not have a period at the end.
-* `meta.license` must be set and fit the upstream license.
-  * If there is no upstream license, `meta.license` should default to `stdenv.lib.licenses.unfree`.
-* `meta.maintainers` must be set.
+  * Be capitalized
+  * Not start with the package name
+  * Not have a dot at the end
 
-See the nixpkgs manual for more details on [standard meta-attributes](https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-standard-meta-attributes) and on how to [submit changes to nixpkgs](https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#chap-submitting-changes).
+See the nixpkgs manual for more details on how to [Submit changes to nixpkgs](http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/trunk/manual/latest/download-by-type/doc/manual#chap-submitting-changes).
 
-## Writing good commit messages
-
-In addition to writing properly formatted commit messages, it's important to include relevant information so other developers can later understand *why* a change was made. While this information usually can be found by digging code, mailing list archives, pull request discussions or upstream changes, it may require a lot of work.
-
-For package version upgrades and such a one-line commit message is usually sufficient.
-
-## Reviewing contributions
-
-See the nixpkgs manual for more details on how to [Review contributions](https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-reviewing-contributions).

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md

@@ -8,5 +8,6 @@
 
 ## Technical details
 
-Please run `nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"` and paste the
-results.
+* System: (NixOS: `nixos-version`, Ubuntu/Fedora: `lsb_release -a`, ...)
+* Nix version: (run `nix-env --version`)
+* Nixpkgs version: (run `nix-instantiate --eval '<nixpkgs>' -A lib.nixpkgsVersion`)

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@
 
 ###### Things done
 
-<!-- Please check what applies. Note that these are not hard requirements but merely serve as information for reviewers. -->
-
-- [ ] Tested using sandboxing ([nix.useSandbox](http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/options.html#opt-nix.useSandbox) on NixOS, or option `build-use-sandbox` in [`nix.conf`](http://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sec-conf-file) on non-NixOS)
+- [ ] Tested using sandboxing
+  ([nix.useChroot](http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/options.html#opt-nix.useChroot) on NixOS,
+    or option `build-use-chroot` in [`nix.conf`](http://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sec-conf-file)
+    on non-NixOS)
 - Built on platform(s)
    - [ ] NixOS
-   - [ ] macOS
-   - [ ] other Linux distributions
-- [ ] Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside [nixos/tests](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/tests))
+   - [ ] OS X
+   - [ ] Linux
 - [ ] Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using `nix-shell -p nox --run "nox-review wip"`
 - [ ] Tested execution of all binary files (usually in `./result/bin/`)
 - [ ] Fits [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md).

.mention-bot

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{
+  "userBlacklist": [
+    "civodul",
+    "jhasse"
+  ]
+}

.travis.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+language: nix
+matrix:
+    include:
+        - os: linux
+          sudo: false
+          script:
+              - ./maintainers/scripts/travis-nox-review-pr.sh nixpkgs-verify nixpkgs-manual nixpkgs-tarball
+              - ./maintainers/scripts/travis-nox-review-pr.sh nixos-options nixos-manual
+        - os: linux
+          sudo: required
+          dist: trusty
+          before_script:
+              - sudo mount -o remount,exec,size=2G,mode=755 /run/user
+          script: ./maintainers/scripts/travis-nox-review-pr.sh nox pr
+        - os: osx
+          osx_image: xcode7.3
+          script: ./maintainers/scripts/travis-nox-review-pr.sh nox pr
+git:
+    depth: 1
+env:
+    global:
+        - GITHUB_TOKEN=5edaaf1017f691ed34e7f80878f8f5fbd071603f

.version

@@ -1 +1 @@
-18.03
+16.09

COPYING

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (c) 2003-2018 Eelco Dolstra and the Nixpkgs/NixOS contributors
+Copyright (c) 2003-2016 Eelco Dolstra and the Nixpkgs/NixOS contributors
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
 a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
 Note: the license above does not apply to the packages built by the
 Nix Packages collection, merely to the package descriptions (i.e., Nix
-expressions, build scripts, etc.).  It also might not apply to patches
+expressions, build scripts, etc.).  Also, the license does not apply
+to some of the binaries used for bootstrapping Nixpkgs (e.g.,
+pkgs/stdenv/linux/tools/bash).  It also might not apply to patches
 included in Nixpkgs, which may be derivative works of the packages to
 which they apply.  The aforementioned artifacts are all covered by the
 licenses of the respective packages.

README.md

@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
-[<img src="https://nixos.org/logo/nixos-hires.png" width="500px" alt="logo" />](https://nixos.org/nixos)
+[<img src="http://nixos.org/logo/nixos-hires.png" width="500px" alt="logo" />](https://nixos.org/nixos)
 
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/NixOS/nixpkgs.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/NixOS/nixpkgs)
 [![Code Triagers Badge](https://www.codetriage.com/nixos/nixpkgs/badges/users.svg)](https://www.codetriage.com/nixos/nixpkgs)
+[![Issue Stats](http://www.issuestats.com/github/nixos/nixpkgs/badge/pr?style=flat)](http://www.issuestats.com/github/nixos/nixpkgs)
+[![Issue Stats](http://www.issuestats.com/github/nixos/nixpkgs/badge/issue?style=flat)](http://www.issuestats.com/github/nixos/nixpkgs)
 
 Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the [Nix](https://nixos.org/nix/) package
-manager. It is periodically built and tested by the [Hydra](https://hydra.nixos.org/)
+manager. It is periodically built and tested by the [hydra](http://hydra.nixos.org/)
 build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add
 [nixpkgs-channels](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git) as a remote:
 
@@ -12,30 +15,30 @@ build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add
 ```
 
 For stability and maximum binary package support, it is recommended to maintain
-custom changes on top of one of the channels, e.g. `nixos-18.03` for the latest
+custom changes on top of one of the channels, e.g. `nixos-16.03` for the latest
 release and `nixos-unstable` for the latest successful build of master:
 
 ```
 % git remote update channels
-% git rebase channels/nixos-18.03
+% git rebase channels/nixos-16.03
 ```
 
 For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs `master`.
 
-[NixOS](https://nixos.org/nixos/) Linux distribution source code is located inside
+[NixOS](https://nixos.org/nixos/) linux distribution source code is located inside
 `nixos/` folder.
 
 * [NixOS installation instructions](https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#ch-installation)
 * [Documentation (Nix Expression Language chapter)](https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ch-expression-language)
 * [Manual (How to write packages for Nix)](https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/)
 * [Manual (NixOS)](https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/)
-* [Community maintained wiki](https://nixos.wiki/)
+* [Nix Wiki](https://nixos.org/wiki/) (deprecated, see milestone ["Move the Wiki!"](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A%22Move+the+wiki%21%22))
 * [Continuous package builds for unstable/master](https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/trunk-combined)
-* [Continuous package builds for 18.03 release](https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/release-18.03)
+* [Continuous package builds for 16.03 release](https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/release-16.03)
 * [Tests for unstable/master](https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/trunk-combined/tested#tabs-constituents)
-* [Tests for 18.03 release](https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/release-18.03/tested#tabs-constituents)
+* [Tests for 16.03 release](https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/release-16.03/tested#tabs-constituents)
 
 Communication:
 
-* [Mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nix-devel)
+* [Mailing list](http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev)
 * [IRC - #nixos on freenode.net](irc://irc.freenode.net/#nixos)

default.nix

@@ -2,17 +2,7 @@ let requiredVersion = import ./lib/minver.nix; in
 
 if ! builtins ? nixVersion || builtins.compareVersions requiredVersion builtins.nixVersion == 1 then
 
-  abort ''
-
-    This version of Nixpkgs requires Nix >= ${requiredVersion}, please upgrade:
-
-    - If you are running NixOS, use `nixos-rebuild' to upgrade your system.
-
-    - If you installed Nix using the install script (https://nixos.org/nix/install),
-      it is safe to upgrade by running it again:
-
-          curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
-  ''
+  abort "This version of Nixpkgs requires Nix >= ${requiredVersion}, please upgrade! See https://nixos.org/wiki/How_to_update_when_Nix_is_too_old_to_evaluate_Nixpkgs"
 
 else
 

doc/.gitignore

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-*.chapter.xml
-*.section.xml
-.version
-out
-manual-full.xml
-highlightjs

doc/Makefile

@@ -1,100 +0,0 @@
-MD_TARGETS=$(addsuffix .xml, $(basename $(wildcard ./*.md ./**/*.md)))
-
-.PHONY: all
-all: validate format out/html/index.html out/epub/manual.epub
-
-.PHONY: debug
-debug:
-	nix-shell --run "xmloscopy --docbook5 ./manual.xml ./manual-full.xml"
-
-.PHONY: format
-format:
-	find . -iname '*.xml' -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I{} -n1 \
-		xmlformat --config-file "$$XMLFORMAT_CONFIG" -i {}
-
-.PHONY: fix-misc-xml
-fix-misc-xml:
-	find . -iname '*.xml' -type f \
-		-exec ../nixos/doc/varlistentry-fixer.rb {} ';'
-
-.PHONY: clean
-clean:
-	rm -f ${MD_TARGETS} .version manual-full.xml
-	rm -rf ./out/ ./highlightjs
-
-.PHONY: validate
-validate: manual-full.xml
-	jing "$$RNG" manual-full.xml
-
-out/html/index.html: manual-full.xml style.css highlightjs
-	mkdir -p out/html
-	xsltproc ${xsltFlags} \
-		--nonet --xinclude \
-		--output $@ \
-		"$$XSL/docbook/xhtml/docbook.xsl" \
-		./manual-full.xml
-
-	mkdir -p out/html/highlightjs/
-	cp -r highlightjs out/html/
-
-	cp ./overrides.css out/html/
-	cp ./style.css out/html/style.css
-
-	mkdir -p out/html/images/callouts
-	cp "$$XSL/docbook/images/callouts/"*.svg out/html/images/callouts/
-	chmod u+w -R out/html/
-
-out/epub/manual.epub: manual-full.xml
-	mkdir -p out/epub/scratch
-	xsltproc ${xsltFlags} --nonet \
-		--output out/epub/scratch/ \
-		"$$XSL/docbook/epub/docbook.xsl" \
-		./manual-full.xml
-
-	cp ./overrides.css out/epub/scratch/OEBPS
-	cp ./style.css out/epub/scratch/OEBPS
-	mkdir -p out/epub/scratch/OEBPS/images/callouts/
-	cp "$$XSL/docbook/images/callouts/"*.svg out/epub/scratch/OEBPS/images/callouts/
-	echo "application/epub+zip" > mimetype
-	zip -0Xq "out/epub/manual.epub" mimetype
-	rm mimetype
-	cd "out/epub/scratch/" && zip -Xr9D "../manual.epub" *
-	rm -rf "out/epub/scratch/"
-
-highlightjs:
-	mkdir -p highlightjs
-	cp -r "$$HIGHLIGHTJS/highlight.pack.js" highlightjs/
-	cp -r "$$HIGHLIGHTJS/LICENSE" highlightjs/
-	cp -r "$$HIGHLIGHTJS/mono-blue.css" highlightjs/
-	cp -r "$$HIGHLIGHTJS/loader.js" highlightjs/
-
-
-manual-full.xml: ${MD_TARGETS} .version *.xml
-	xmllint --nonet --xinclude --noxincludenode manual.xml --output manual-full.xml
-
-.version:
-	nix-instantiate --eval \
-		-E '(import ../lib).nixpkgsVersion' > .version
-
-%.section.xml: %.section.md
-	pandoc $^ -w docbook+smart \
-		-f markdown+smart \
-	  | sed -e 's|<ulink url=|<link xlink:href=|' \
-	      -e 's|</ulink>|</link>|' \
-	      -e 's|<sect. id=|<section xml:id=|' \
-	      -e 's|</sect[0-9]>|</section>|' \
-	      -e '1s| id=| xml:id=|' \
-	      -e '1s|\(<[^ ]* \)|\1xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" |' \
-	| cat  > $@
-
-%.chapter.xml: %.chapter.md
-	pandoc $^ -w docbook+smart \
-		--top-level-division=chapter \
-		-f markdown+smart \
-	  | sed -e 's|<ulink url=|<link xlink:href=|' \
-	      -e 's|</ulink>|</link>|' \
-	      -e 's|<sect. id=|<section xml:id=|' \
-	      -e 's|</sect[0-9]>|</section>|' \
-	      -e '1s| id=| xml:id=|' \
-	      -e '1s|\(<[^ ]* \)|\1|' \
-	| cat  > $@

doc/configuration.xml

@@ -1,248 +1,98 @@
 <chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
          xml:id="chap-packageconfig">
- <title>Global configuration</title>
- <para>
-  Nix comes with certain defaults about what packages can and cannot be
-  installed, based on a package's metadata. By default, Nix will prevent
-  installation if any of the following criteria are true:
- </para>
- <itemizedlist>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    The package is thought to be broken, and has had its
-    <literal>meta.broken</literal> set to <literal>true</literal>.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    The package's <literal>meta.license</literal> is set to a license which is
-    considered to be unfree.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
-  <listitem>
-   <para>
-    The package has known security vulnerabilities but has not or can not be
-    updated for some reason, and a list of issues has been entered in to the
-    package's <literal>meta.knownVulnerabilities</literal>.
-   </para>
-  </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <para>
-  Note that all this is checked during evaluation already, and the check
-  includes any package that is evaluated. In particular, all build-time
-  dependencies are checked. <literal>nix-env -qa</literal> will (attempt to)
-  hide any packages that would be refused.
- </para>
- <para>
-  Each of these criteria can be altered in the nixpkgs configuration.
- </para>
- <para>
-  The nixpkgs configuration for a NixOS system is set in the
-  <literal>configuration.nix</literal>, as in the following example:
-<programlisting>
-{
-  nixpkgs.config = {
-    allowUnfree = true;
-  };
-}
-</programlisting>
-  However, this does not allow unfree software for individual users. Their
-  configurations are managed separately.
- </para>
- <para>
-  A user's of nixpkgs configuration is stored in a user-specific configuration
-  file located at <filename>~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix</filename>. For
-  example:
+
+<title><filename>~/.nixpkgs/config.nix</filename>: global configuration</title>
+
+<para>Nix packages can be configured to allow or deny certain options.</para>
+
+<para>To apply the configuration edit
+<filename>~/.nixpkgs/config.nix</filename> and set it like
+
 <programlisting>
 {
   allowUnfree = true;
 }
 </programlisting>
- </para>
- <para>
-  Note that we are not able to test or build unfree software on Hydra due to
-  policy. Most unfree licenses prohibit us from either executing or
-  distributing the software.
- </para>
- <section xml:id="sec-allow-broken">
-  <title>Installing broken packages</title>
 
-  <para>
-   There are two ways to try compiling a package which has been marked as
-   broken.
-  </para>
+and will allow the Nix package manager to install unfree licensed packages.</para>
+
+<para>The configuration as listed also applies to NixOS under
+<option>nixpkgs.config</option> set.</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>Allow installing of packages that are distributed under
+    unfree license by setting <programlisting>allowUnfree =
+    true;</programlisting> or deny them by setting it to
+    <literal>false</literal>.</para>
+
+    <para>Same can be achieved by setting the environment variable:
 
-  <itemizedlist>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     For allowing the build of a broken package once, you can use an
-     environment variable for a single invocation of the nix tools:
-<programlisting>$ export NIXPKGS_ALLOW_BROKEN=1</programlisting>
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     For permanently allowing broken packages to be built, you may add
-     <literal>allowBroken = true;</literal> to your user's configuration file,
-     like this:
 <programlisting>
-{
-  allowBroken = true;
-}
+$ export NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE=1
+</programlisting>
+
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>Whenever unfree packages are not allowed, single packages
+    can still be allowed by a predicate function that accepts package
+    as an argument and should return a boolean:
+
+<programlisting>
+allowUnfreePredicate = (pkg: ...);
+</programlisting>
+
+    Example to allow flash player and visual studio code only:
+
+<programlisting>
+allowUnfreePredicate = with builtins; (pkg: elem (parseDrvName pkg.name).name [ "flashplayer" "vscode" ]);
+</programlisting>
+
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>Whenever unfree packages are not allowed, packages can still
+    be whitelisted by their license:
+
+<programlisting>
+whitelistedLicenses = with stdenv.lib.licenses; [ amd wtfpl ];
 </programlisting>
     </para>
-   </listitem>
-  </itemizedlist>
- </section>
- <section xml:id="sec-allow-unfree">
-  <title>Installing unfree packages</title>
+  </listitem>
 
-  <para>
-   There are several ways to tweak how Nix handles a package which has been
-   marked as unfree.
-  </para>
+  <listitem>
+    <para>In addition to whitelisting licenses which are denied by the
+    <literal>allowUnfree</literal> setting, you can also explicitely
+    deny installation of packages which have a certain license:
 
-  <itemizedlist>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     To temporarily allow all unfree packages, you can use an environment
-     variable for a single invocation of the nix tools:
-<programlisting>$ export NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE=1</programlisting>
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     It is possible to permanently allow individual unfree packages, while
-     still blocking unfree packages by default using the
-     <literal>allowUnfreePredicate</literal> configuration option in the user
-     configuration file.
-    </para>
-    <para>
-     This option is a function which accepts a package as a parameter, and
-     returns a boolean. The following example configuration accepts a package
-     and always returns false:
 <programlisting>
-{
-  allowUnfreePredicate = (pkg: false);
-}
+blacklistedLicenses = with stdenv.lib.licenses; [ agpl3 gpl3 ];
 </programlisting>
     </para>
-    <para>
-     A more useful example, the following configuration allows only allows
-     flash player and visual studio code:
-<programlisting>
-{
-  allowUnfreePredicate = (pkg: elem (builtins.parseDrvName pkg.name).name [ "flashplayer" "vscode" ]);
-}
-</programlisting>
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     It is also possible to whitelist and blacklist licenses that are
-     specifically acceptable or not acceptable, using
-     <literal>whitelistedLicenses</literal> and
-     <literal>blacklistedLicenses</literal>, respectively.
-    </para>
-    <para>
-     The following example configuration whitelists the licenses
-     <literal>amd</literal> and <literal>wtfpl</literal>:
-<programlisting>
-{
-  whitelistedLicenses = with stdenv.lib.licenses; [ amd wtfpl ];
-}
-</programlisting>
-    </para>
-    <para>
-     The following example configuration blacklists the <literal>gpl3</literal>
-     and <literal>agpl3</literal> licenses:
-<programlisting>
-{
-  blacklistedLicenses = with stdenv.lib.licenses; [ agpl3 gpl3 ];
-}
-</programlisting>
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-  </itemizedlist>
+  </listitem>
 
-  <para>
-   A complete list of licenses can be found in the file
-   <filename>lib/licenses.nix</filename> of the nixpkgs tree.
-  </para>
- </section>
- <section xml:id="sec-allow-insecure">
-  <title>Installing insecure packages</title>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<para>A complete list of licenses can be found in the file
+<filename>lib/licenses.nix</filename> of the nix package tree.</para>
 
-  <para>
-   There are several ways to tweak how Nix handles a package which has been
-   marked as insecure.
-  </para>
 
-  <itemizedlist>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     To temporarily allow all insecure packages, you can use an environment
-     variable for a single invocation of the nix tools:
-<programlisting>$ export NIXPKGS_ALLOW_INSECURE=1</programlisting>
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     It is possible to permanently allow individual insecure packages, while
-     still blocking other insecure packages by default using the
-     <literal>permittedInsecurePackages</literal> configuration option in the
-     user configuration file.
-    </para>
-    <para>
-     The following example configuration permits the installation of the
-     hypothetically insecure package <literal>hello</literal>, version
-     <literal>1.2.3</literal>:
-<programlisting>
-{
-  permittedInsecurePackages = [
-    "hello-1.2.3"
-  ];
-}
-</programlisting>
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     It is also possible to create a custom policy around which insecure
-     packages to allow and deny, by overriding the
-     <literal>allowInsecurePredicate</literal> configuration option.
-    </para>
-    <para>
-     The <literal>allowInsecurePredicate</literal> option is a function which
-     accepts a package and returns a boolean, much like
-     <literal>allowUnfreePredicate</literal>.
-    </para>
-    <para>
-     The following configuration example only allows insecure packages with
-     very short names:
-<programlisting>
-{
-  allowInsecurePredicate = (pkg: (builtins.stringLength (builtins.parseDrvName pkg.name).name) &lt;= 5);
-}
-</programlisting>
-    </para>
-    <para>
-     Note that <literal>permittedInsecurePackages</literal> is only checked if
-     <literal>allowInsecurePredicate</literal> is not specified.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-  </itemizedlist>
- </section>
 <!--============================================================-->
- <section xml:id="sec-modify-via-packageOverrides">
-  <title>Modify packages via <literal>packageOverrides</literal></title>
 
-  <para>
-   You can define a function called <varname>packageOverrides</varname> in your
-   local <filename>~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix</filename> to override nix
-   packages. It must be a function that takes pkgs as an argument and return
-   modified set of packages.
+<section xml:id="sec-modify-via-packageOverrides"><title>Modify
+packages via <literal>packageOverrides</literal></title>
+
+<para>You can define a function called
+<varname>packageOverrides</varname> in your local
+<filename>~/.nixpkgs/config.nix</filename> to overide nix packages.  It
+must be a function that takes pkgs as an argument and return modified
+set of packages.
+
 <programlisting>
 {
   packageOverrides = pkgs: rec {
@@ -250,214 +100,10 @@
   };
 }
 </programlisting>
-  </para>
- </section>
- <section xml:id="sec-declarative-package-management">
-  <title>Declarative Package Management</title>
 
-  <section xml:id="sec-building-environment">
-   <title>Build an environment</title>
+</para>
 
-   <para>
-    Using <literal>packageOverrides</literal>, it is possible to manage
-    packages declaratively. This means that we can list all of our desired
-    packages within a declarative Nix expression. For example, to have
-    <literal>aspell</literal>, <literal>bc</literal>,
-    <literal>ffmpeg</literal>, <literal>coreutils</literal>,
-    <literal>gdb</literal>, <literal>nixUnstable</literal>,
-    <literal>emscripten</literal>, <literal>jq</literal>,
-    <literal>nox</literal>, and <literal>silver-searcher</literal>, we could
-    use the following in <filename>~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix</filename>:
-   </para>
+</section>
 
-<screen>
-{
-  packageOverrides = pkgs: with pkgs; {
-    myPackages = pkgs.buildEnv {
-      name = "my-packages";
-      paths = [ aspell bc coreutils gdb ffmpeg nixUnstable emscripten jq nox silver-searcher ];
-    };
-  };
-}
-    </screen>
 
-   <para>
-    To install it into our environment, you can just run <literal>nix-env -iA
-    nixpkgs.myPackages</literal>. If you want to load the packages to be built
-    from a working copy of <literal>nixpkgs</literal> you just run
-    <literal>nix-env -f. -iA myPackages</literal>. To explore what's been
-    installed, just look through <filename>~/.nix-profile/</filename>. You can
-    see that a lot of stuff has been installed. Some of this stuff is useful
-    some of it isn't. Let's tell Nixpkgs to only link the stuff that we want:
-   </para>
-
-<screen>
-{
-  packageOverrides = pkgs: with pkgs; {
-    myPackages = pkgs.buildEnv {
-      name = "my-packages";
-      paths = [ aspell bc coreutils gdb ffmpeg nixUnstable emscripten jq nox silver-searcher ];
-      pathsToLink = [ "/share" "/bin" ];
-    };
-  };
-}
-    </screen>
-
-   <para>
-    <literal>pathsToLink</literal> tells Nixpkgs to only link the paths listed
-    which gets rid of the extra stuff in the profile. <filename>/bin</filename>
-    and <filename>/share</filename> are good defaults for a user environment,
-    getting rid of the clutter. If you are running on Nix on MacOS, you may
-    want to add another path as well, <filename>/Applications</filename>, that
-    makes GUI apps available.
-   </para>
-  </section>
-
-  <section xml:id="sec-getting-documentation">
-   <title>Getting documentation</title>
-
-   <para>
-    After building that new environment, look through
-    <filename>~/.nix-profile</filename> to make sure everything is there that
-    we wanted. Discerning readers will note that some files are missing. Look
-    inside <filename>~/.nix-profile/share/man/man1/</filename> to verify this.
-    There are no man pages for any of the Nix tools! This is because some
-    packages like Nix have multiple outputs for things like documentation (see
-    section 4). Let's make Nix install those as well.
-   </para>
-
-<screen>
-{
-  packageOverrides = pkgs: with pkgs; {
-    myPackages = pkgs.buildEnv {
-      name = "my-packages";
-      paths = [ aspell bc coreutils ffmpeg nixUnstable emscripten jq nox silver-searcher ];
-      pathsToLink = [ "/share/man" "/share/doc" /bin" ];
-      extraOutputsToInstall = [ "man" "doc" ];
-    };
-  };
-}
-    </screen>
-
-   <para>
-    This provides us with some useful documentation for using our packages.
-    However, if we actually want those manpages to be detected by man, we need
-    to set up our environment. This can also be managed within Nix expressions.
-   </para>
-
-<screen>
-{
-  packageOverrides = pkgs: with pkgs; rec {
-    myProfile = writeText "my-profile" ''
-export PATH=$HOME/.nix-profile/bin:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
-export MANPATH=$HOME/.nix-profile/share/man:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/share/man:/usr/share/man
-    '';
-    myPackages = pkgs.buildEnv {
-      name = "my-packages";
-      paths = [
-        (runCommand "profile" {} ''
-mkdir -p $out/etc/profile.d
-cp ${myProfile} $out/etc/profile.d/my-profile.sh
-        '')
-        aspell
-        bc
-        coreutils
-        ffmpeg
-        man
-        nixUnstable
-        emscripten
-        jq
-        nox
-        silver-searcher
-      ];
-      pathsToLink = [ "/share/man" "/share/doc" /bin" "/etc" ];
-      extraOutputsToInstall = [ "man" "doc" ];
-    };
-  };
-}
-    </screen>
-
-   <para>
-    For this to work fully, you must also have this script sourced when you are
-    logged in. Try adding something like this to your
-    <filename>~/.profile</filename> file:
-   </para>
-
-<screen>
-#!/bin/sh
-if [ -d $HOME/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d ]; then
-  for i in $HOME/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
-    if [ -r $i ]; then
-      . $i
-    fi
-  done
-fi
-    </screen>
-
-   <para>
-    Now just run <literal>source $HOME/.profile</literal> and you can starting
-    loading man pages from your environent.
-   </para>
-  </section>
-
-  <section xml:id="sec-gnu-info-setup">
-   <title>GNU info setup</title>
-
-   <para>
-    Configuring GNU info is a little bit trickier than man pages. To work
-    correctly, info needs a database to be generated. This can be done with
-    some small modifications to our environment scripts.
-   </para>
-
-<screen>
-{
-  packageOverrides = pkgs: with pkgs; rec {
-    myProfile = writeText "my-profile" ''
-export PATH=$HOME/.nix-profile/bin:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
-export MANPATH=$HOME/.nix-profile/share/man:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/share/man:/usr/share/man
-export INFOPATH=$HOME/.nix-profile/share/info:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/share/info:/usr/share/info
-    '';
-    myPackages = pkgs.buildEnv {
-      name = "my-packages";
-      paths = [
-        (runCommand "profile" {} ''
-mkdir -p $out/etc/profile.d
-cp ${myProfile} $out/etc/profile.d/my-profile.sh
-        '')
-        aspell
-        bc
-        coreutils
-        ffmpeg
-        man
-        nixUnstable
-        emscripten
-        jq
-        nox
-        silver-searcher
-        texinfoInteractive
-      ];
-      pathsToLink = [ "/share/man" "/share/doc" "/share/info" "/bin" "/etc" ];
-      extraOutputsToInstall = [ "man" "doc" "info" ];
-      postBuild = ''
-          if [ -x $out/bin/install-info -a -w $out/share/info ]; then
-            shopt -s nullglob
-            for i in $out/share/info/*.info $out/share/info/*.info.gz; do
-                $out/bin/install-info $i $out/share/info/dir
-            done
-          fi
-      '';
-    };
-  };
-}
-    </screen>
-
-   <para>
-    <literal>postBuild</literal> tells Nixpkgs to run a command after building
-    the environment. In this case, <literal>install-info</literal> adds the
-    installed info pages to <literal>dir</literal> which is GNU info's default
-    root node. Note that <literal>texinfoInteractive</literal> is added to the
-    environment to give the <literal>install-info</literal> command.
-   </para>
-  </section>
- </section>
 </chapter>

doc/contributing.xml

@@ -1,35 +1,20 @@
 <chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
          xml:id="chap-contributing">
- <title>Contributing to this documentation</title>
- <para>
-  The DocBook sources of the Nixpkgs manual are in the
-  <filename
+
+<title>Contributing to this documentation</title>
+
+<para>The DocBook sources of the Nixpkgs manual are in the <filename
 xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/doc">doc</filename>
-  subdirectory of the Nixpkgs repository.
- </para>
- <para>
-  You can quickly check your edits with <command>make</command>:
- </para>
+subdirectory of the Nixpkgs repository. If you make modifications to
+the manual, it's important to build it before committing. You can do that as follows:
+
 <screen>
-  $ cd /path/to/nixpkgs/doc
-  $ nix-shell
-  [nix-shell]$ make
+$ cd /path/to/nixpkgs
+$ nix-build doc
 </screen>
- <para>
-  If you experience problems, run <command>make debug</command> to help
-  understand the docbook errors.
- </para>
- <para>
-  After making modifications to the manual, it's important to build it before
-  committing. You can do that as follows:
-<screen>
-  $ cd /path/to/nixpkgs/doc
-  $ nix-shell
-  [nix-shell]$ make clean
-  [nix-shell]$ nix-build .
-</screen>
-  If the build succeeds, the manual will be in
-  <filename>./result/share/doc/nixpkgs/manual.html</filename>.
- </para>
+
+If the build succeeds, the manual will be in
+<filename>./result/share/doc/nixpkgs/manual.html</filename>.</para>
+
 </chapter>

doc/cross-compilation.xml

@@ -1,478 +0,0 @@
-<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
-         xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
-         xml:id="chap-cross">
- <title>Cross-compilation</title>
- <section xml:id="sec-cross-intro">
-  <title>Introduction</title>
-
-  <para>
-   "Cross-compilation" means compiling a program on one machine for another
-   type of machine. For example, a typical use of cross compilation is to
-   compile programs for embedded devices. These devices often don't have the
-   computing power and memory to compile their own programs. One might think
-   that cross-compilation is a fairly niche concern, but there are advantages
-   to being rigorous about distinguishing build-time vs run-time environments
-   even when one is developing and deploying on the same machine. Nixpkgs is
-   increasingly adopting the opinion that packages should be written with
-   cross-compilation in mind, and nixpkgs should evaluate in a similar way (by
-   minimizing cross-compilation-specific special cases) whether or not one is
-   cross-compiling.
-  </para>
-
-  <para>
-   This chapter will be organized in three parts. First, it will describe the
-   basics of how to package software in a way that supports cross-compilation.
-   Second, it will describe how to use Nixpkgs when cross-compiling. Third, it
-   will describe the internal infrastructure supporting cross-compilation.
-  </para>
- </section>
-<!--============================================================-->
- <section xml:id="sec-cross-packaging">
-  <title>Packaging in a cross-friendly manner</title>
-
-  <section>
-   <title>Platform parameters</title>
-
-   <para>
-    Nixpkgs follows the
-    <link xlink:href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Configure-Terms.html">common
-    historical convention of GNU autoconf</link> of distinguishing between 3
-    types of platform: <wordasword>build</wordasword>,
-    <wordasword>host</wordasword>, and <wordasword>target</wordasword>. In
-    summary, <wordasword>build</wordasword> is the platform on which a package
-    is being built, <wordasword>host</wordasword> is the platform on which it
-    is to run. The third attribute, <wordasword>target</wordasword>, is
-    relevant only for certain specific compilers and build tools.
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-    In Nixpkgs, these three platforms are defined as attribute sets under the
-    names <literal>buildPlatform</literal>, <literal>hostPlatform</literal>,
-    and <literal>targetPlatform</literal>. All three are always defined as
-    attributes in the standard environment, and at the top level. That means
-    one can get at them just like a dependency in a function that is imported
-    with <literal>callPackage</literal>:
-<programlisting>{ stdenv, buildPlatform, hostPlatform, fooDep, barDep, .. }: ...buildPlatform...</programlisting>
-    , or just off <varname>stdenv</varname>:
-<programlisting>{ stdenv, fooDep, barDep, .. }: ...stdenv.buildPlatform...</programlisting>
-    .
-   </para>
-
-   <variablelist>
-    <varlistentry>
-     <term>
-      <varname>buildPlatform</varname>
-     </term>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       The "build platform" is the platform on which a package is built. Once
-       someone has a built package, or pre-built binary package, the build
-       platform should not matter and be safe to ignore.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
-    <varlistentry>
-     <term>
-      <varname>hostPlatform</varname>
-     </term>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       The "host platform" is the platform on which a package will be run. This
-       is the simplest platform to understand, but also the one with the worst
-       name.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
-    <varlistentry>
-     <term>
-      <varname>targetPlatform</varname>
-     </term>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       The "target platform" attribute is, unlike the other two attributes, not
-       actually fundamental to the process of building software. Instead, it is
-       only relevant for compatibility with building certain specific compilers
-       and build tools. It can be safely ignored for all other packages.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-       The build process of certain compilers is written in such a way that the
-       compiler resulting from a single build can itself only produce binaries
-       for a single platform. The task specifying this single "target platform"
-       is thus pushed to build time of the compiler. The root cause of this
-       mistake is often that the compiler (which will be run on the host) and
-       the the standard library/runtime (which will be run on the target) are
-       built by a single build process.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-       There is no fundamental need to think about a single target ahead of
-       time like this. If the tool supports modular or pluggable backends, both
-       the need to specify the target at build time and the constraint of
-       having only a single target disappear. An example of such a tool is
-       LLVM.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-       Although the existance of a "target platfom" is arguably a historical
-       mistake, it is a common one: examples of tools that suffer from it are
-       GCC, Binutils, GHC and Autoconf. Nixpkgs tries to avoid sharing in the
-       mistake where possible. Still, because the concept of a target platform
-       is so ingrained, it is best to support it as is.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
-   </variablelist>
-
-   <para>
-    The exact schema these fields follow is a bit ill-defined due to a long and
-    convoluted evolution, but this is slowly being cleaned up. You can see
-    examples of ones used in practice in
-    <literal>lib.systems.examples</literal>; note how they are not all very
-    consistent. For now, here are few fields can count on them containing:
-   </para>
-
-   <variablelist>
-    <varlistentry>
-     <term>
-      <varname>system</varname>
-     </term>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       This is a two-component shorthand for the platform. Examples of this
-       would be "x86_64-darwin" and "i686-linux"; see
-       <literal>lib.systems.doubles</literal> for more. This format isn't very
-       standard, but has built-in support in Nix, such as the
-       <varname>builtins.currentSystem</varname> impure string.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
-    <varlistentry>
-     <term>
-      <varname>config</varname>
-     </term>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       This is a 3- or 4- component shorthand for the platform. Examples of
-       this would be "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" and "aarch64-apple-darwin14".
-       This is a standard format called the "LLVM target triple", as they are
-       pioneered by LLVM and traditionally just used for the
-       <varname>targetPlatform</varname>. This format is strictly more
-       informative than the "Nix host double", as the previous format could
-       analogously be termed. This needs a better name than
-       <varname>config</varname>!
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
-    <varlistentry>
-     <term>
-      <varname>parsed</varname>
-     </term>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       This is a nix representation of a parsed LLVM target triple with
-       white-listed components. This can be specified directly, or actually
-       parsed from the <varname>config</varname>. [Technically, only one need
-       be specified and the others can be inferred, though the precision of
-       inference may not be very good.] See
-       <literal>lib.systems.parse</literal> for the exact representation.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
-    <varlistentry>
-     <term>
-      <varname>libc</varname>
-     </term>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       This is a string identifying the standard C library used. Valid
-       identifiers include "glibc" for GNU libc, "libSystem" for Darwin's
-       Libsystem, and "uclibc" for µClibc. It should probably be refactored to
-       use the module system, like <varname>parse</varname>.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
-    <varlistentry>
-     <term>
-      <varname>is*</varname>
-     </term>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       These predicates are defined in <literal>lib.systems.inspect</literal>,
-       and slapped on every platform. They are superior to the ones in
-       <varname>stdenv</varname> as they force the user to be explicit about
-       which platform they are inspecting. Please use these instead of those.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
-    <varlistentry>
-     <term>
-      <varname>platform</varname>
-     </term>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       This is, quite frankly, a dumping ground of ad-hoc settings (it's an
-       attribute set). See <literal>lib.systems.platforms</literal> for
-       examples—there's hopefully one in there that will work verbatim for
-       each platform that is working. Please help us triage these flags and
-       give them better homes!
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
-   </variablelist>
-  </section>
-
-  <section>
-   <title>Specifying Dependencies</title>
-
-   <para>
-    In this section we explore the relationship between both runtime and
-    buildtime dependencies and the 3 Autoconf platforms.
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-    A runtime dependency between 2 packages implies that between them both the
-    host and target platforms match. This is directly implied by the meaning of
-    "host platform" and "runtime dependency": The package dependency exists
-    while both packages are running on a single host platform.
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-    A build time dependency, however, implies a shift in platforms between the
-    depending package and the depended-on package. The meaning of a build time
-    dependency is that to build the depending package we need to be able to run
-    the depended-on's package. The depending package's build platform is
-    therefore equal to the depended-on package's host platform. Analogously,
-    the depending package's host platform is equal to the depended-on package's
-    target platform.
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-    In this manner, given the 3 platforms for one package, we can determine the
-    three platforms for all its transitive dependencies. This is the most
-    important guiding principle behind cross-compilation with Nixpkgs, and will
-    be called the <wordasword>sliding window principle</wordasword>.
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-    Some examples will probably make this clearer. If a package is being built
-    with a <literal>(build, host, target)</literal> platform triple of
-    <literal>(foo, bar, bar)</literal>, then its build-time dependencies would
-    have a triple of <literal>(foo, foo, bar)</literal>, and <emphasis>those
-    packages'</emphasis> build-time dependencies would have triple of
-    <literal>(foo, foo, foo)</literal>. In other words, it should take two
-    "rounds" of following build-time dependency edges before one reaches a
-    fixed point where, by the sliding window principle, the platform triple no
-    longer changes. Indeed, this happens with cross compilation, where only
-    rounds of native dependencies starting with the second necessarily coincide
-    with native packages.
-   </para>
-
-   <note>
-    <para>
-     The depending package's target platform is unconstrained by the sliding
-     window principle, which makes sense in that one can in principle build
-     cross compilers targeting arbitrary platforms.
-    </para>
-   </note>
-
-   <para>
-    How does this work in practice? Nixpkgs is now structured so that
-    build-time dependencies are taken from <varname>buildPackages</varname>,
-    whereas run-time dependencies are taken from the top level attribute set.
-    For example, <varname>buildPackages.gcc</varname> should be used at build
-    time, while <varname>gcc</varname> should be used at run time. Now, for
-    most of Nixpkgs's history, there was no <varname>buildPackages</varname>,
-    and most packages have not been refactored to use it explicitly. Instead,
-    one can use the six (<emphasis>gasp</emphasis>) attributes used for
-    specifying dependencies as documented in
-    <xref linkend="ssec-stdenv-dependencies"/>. We "splice" together the
-    run-time and build-time package sets with <varname>callPackage</varname>,
-    and then <varname>mkDerivation</varname> for each of four attributes pulls
-    the right derivation out. This splicing can be skipped when not cross
-    compiling as the package sets are the same, but is a bit slow for cross
-    compiling. Because of this, a best-of-both-worlds solution is in the works
-    with no splicing or explicit access of <varname>buildPackages</varname>
-    needed. For now, feel free to use either method.
-   </para>
-
-   <note>
-    <para>
-     There is also a "backlink" <varname>targetPackages</varname>, yielding a
-     package set whose <varname>buildPackages</varname> is the current package
-     set. This is a hack, though, to accommodate compilers with lousy build
-     systems. Please do not use this unless you are absolutely sure you are
-     packaging such a compiler and there is no other way.
-    </para>
-   </note>
-  </section>
-
-  <section>
-   <title>Cross packagaing cookbook</title>
-
-   <para>
-    Some frequently problems when packaging for cross compilation are good to
-    just spell and answer. Ideally the information above is exhaustive, so this
-    section cannot provide any new information, but its ludicrous and cruel to
-    expect everyone to spend effort working through the interaction of many
-    features just to figure out the same answer to the same common problem.
-    Feel free to add to this list!
-   </para>
-
-   <qandaset>
-    <qandaentry>
-     <question>
-      <para>
-       What if my package's build system needs to build a C program to be run
-       under the build environment?
-      </para>
-     </question>
-     <answer>
-      <para>
-<programlisting>depsBuildBuild = [ buildPackages.stdenv.cc ];</programlisting>
-       Add it to your <function>mkDerivation</function> invocation.
-      </para>
-     </answer>
-    </qandaentry>
-    <qandaentry>
-     <question>
-      <para>
-       My package fails to find <command>ar</command>.
-      </para>
-     </question>
-     <answer>
-      <para>
-       Many packages assume that an unprefixed <command>ar</command> is
-       available, but Nix doesn't provide one. It only provides a prefixed one,
-       just as it only does for all the other binutils programs. It may be
-       necessary to patch the package to fix the build system to use a prefixed
-       `ar`.
-      </para>
-     </answer>
-    </qandaentry>
-    <qandaentry>
-     <question>
-      <para>
-       My package's testsuite needs to run host platform code.
-      </para>
-     </question>
-     <answer>
-      <para>
-<programlisting>doCheck = stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.buildPlatfrom;</programlisting>
-       Add it to your <function>mkDerivation</function> invocation.
-      </para>
-     </answer>
-    </qandaentry>
-   </qandaset>
-  </section>
- </section>
-<!--============================================================-->
- <section xml:id="sec-cross-usage">
-  <title>Cross-building packages</title>
-
-  <note>
-   <para>
-    More information needs to moved from the old wiki, especially
-    <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/wiki/CrossCompiling" />, for this
-    section.
-   </para>
-  </note>
-
-  <para>
-   Nixpkgs can be instantiated with <varname>localSystem</varname> alone, in
-   which case there is no cross compiling and everything is built by and for
-   that system, or also with <varname>crossSystem</varname>, in which case
-   packages run on the latter, but all building happens on the former. Both
-   parameters take the same schema as the 3 (build, host, and target) platforms
-   defined in the previous section. As mentioned above,
-   <literal>lib.systems.examples</literal> has some platforms which are used as
-   arguments for these parameters in practice. You can use them
-   programmatically, or on the command line:
-<programlisting>
-nix-build &lt;nixpkgs&gt; --arg crossSystem '(import &lt;nixpkgs/lib&gt;).systems.examples.fooBarBaz' -A whatever</programlisting>
-  </para>
-
-  <note>
-   <para>
-    Eventually we would like to make these platform examples an unnecessary
-    convenience so that
-<programlisting>
-nix-build &lt;nixpkgs&gt; --arg crossSystem.config '&lt;arch&gt;-&lt;os&gt;-&lt;vendor&gt;-&lt;abi&gt;' -A whatever</programlisting>
-    works in the vast majority of cases. The problem today is dependencies on
-    other sorts of configuration which aren't given proper defaults. We rely on
-    the examples to crudely to set those configuration parameters in some
-    vaguely sane manner on the users behalf. Issue
-    <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/34274">#34274</link>
-    tracks this inconvenience along with its root cause in crufty configuration
-    options.
-   </para>
-  </note>
-
-  <para>
-   While one is free to pass both parameters in full, there's a lot of logic to
-   fill in missing fields. As discussed in the previous section, only one of
-   <varname>system</varname>, <varname>config</varname>, and
-   <varname>parsed</varname> is needed to infer the other two. Additionally,
-   <varname>libc</varname> will be inferred from <varname>parse</varname>.
-   Finally, <literal>localSystem.system</literal> is also
-   <emphasis>impurely</emphasis> inferred based on the platform evaluation
-   occurs. This means it is often not necessary to pass
-   <varname>localSystem</varname> at all, as in the command-line example in the
-   previous paragraph.
-  </para>
-
-  <note>
-   <para>
-    Many sources (manual, wiki, etc) probably mention passing
-    <varname>system</varname>, <varname>platform</varname>, along with the
-    optional <varname>crossSystem</varname> to nixpkgs: <literal>import
-    &lt;nixpkgs&gt; { system = ..; platform = ..; crossSystem = ..;
-    }</literal>. Passing those two instead of <varname>localSystem</varname> is
-    still supported for compatibility, but is discouraged. Indeed, much of the
-    inference we do for these parameters is motivated by compatibility as much
-    as convenience.
-   </para>
-  </note>
-
-  <para>
-   One would think that <varname>localSystem</varname> and
-   <varname>crossSystem</varname> overlap horribly with the three
-   <varname>*Platforms</varname> (<varname>buildPlatform</varname>,
-   <varname>hostPlatform,</varname> and <varname>targetPlatform</varname>; see
-   <varname>stage.nix</varname> or the manual). Actually, those identifiers are
-   purposefully not used here to draw a subtle but important distinction: While
-   the granularity of having 3 platforms is necessary to properly *build*
-   packages, it is overkill for specifying the user's *intent* when making a
-   build plan or package set. A simple "build vs deploy" dichotomy is adequate:
-   the sliding window principle described in the previous section shows how to
-   interpolate between the these two "end points" to get the 3 platform triple
-   for each bootstrapping stage. That means for any package a given package
-   set, even those not bound on the top level but only reachable via
-   dependencies or <varname>buildPackages</varname>, the three platforms will
-   be defined as one of <varname>localSystem</varname> or
-   <varname>crossSystem</varname>, with the former replacing the latter as one
-   traverses build-time dependencies. A last simple difference then is
-   <varname>crossSystem</varname> should be null when one doesn't want to
-   cross-compile, while the <varname>*Platform</varname>s are always non-null.
-   <varname>localSystem</varname> is always non-null.
-  </para>
- </section>
-<!--============================================================-->
- <section xml:id="sec-cross-infra">
-  <title>Cross-compilation infrastructure</title>
-
-  <para>
-   To be written.
-  </para>
-
-  <note>
-   <para>
-    If one explores nixpkgs, they will see derivations with names like
-    <literal>gccCross</literal>. Such <literal>*Cross</literal> derivations is
-    a holdover from before we properly distinguished between the host and
-    target platforms —the derivation with "Cross" in the name covered the
-    <literal>build = host != target</literal> case, while the other covered the
-    <literal>host = target</literal>, with build platform the same or not based
-    on whether one was using its <literal>.nativeDrv</literal> or
-    <literal>.crossDrv</literal>. This ugliness will disappear soon.
-   </para>
-  </note>
- </section>
-</chapter>

doc/default.nix

@@ -7,42 +7,93 @@ in
 pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "nixpkgs-manual";
 
-  buildInputs = with pkgs; [ pandoc libxml2 libxslt zip jing  xmlformat ];
 
-  src = ./.;
+  buildInputs = with pkgs; [ pandoc libxml2 libxslt zip ];
 
-  # Hacking on these variables? Make sure to close and open
-  # nix-shell between each test, maybe even:
-  # $ nix-shell --run "make clean all"
-  # otherwise they won't reapply :)
-  HIGHLIGHTJS = pkgs.documentation-highlighter;
-  XSL = "${pkgs.docbook5_xsl}/xml/xsl";
-  RNG = "${pkgs.docbook5}/xml/rng/docbook/docbook.rng";
-  XMLFORMAT_CONFIG = ../nixos/doc/xmlformat.conf;
-  xsltFlags = lib.concatStringsSep " " [
-    "--param section.autolabel 1"
-    "--param section.label.includes.component.label 1"
-    "--stringparam html.stylesheet 'style.css overrides.css highlightjs/mono-blue.css'"
-    "--stringparam html.script './highlightjs/highlight.pack.js ./highlightjs/loader.js'"
-    "--param xref.with.number.and.title 1"
-    "--param toc.section.depth 3"
-    "--stringparam admon.style ''"
-    "--stringparam callout.graphics.extension .svg"
-  ];
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    echo ${lib.nixpkgsVersion} > .version
+  xsltFlags = ''
+    --param section.autolabel 1
+    --param section.label.includes.component.label 1
+    --param html.stylesheet 'style.css'
+    --param xref.with.number.and.title 1
+    --param toc.section.depth 3
+    --param admon.style '''
+    --param callout.graphics.extension '.gif'
   '';
 
-  installPhase = ''
-    dest="$out/share/doc/nixpkgs"
-    mkdir -p "$(dirname "$dest")"
-    mv out/html "$dest"
-    mv "$dest/index.html" "$dest/manual.html"
 
-    mv out/epub/manual.epub "$dest/nixpkgs-manual.epub"
+  buildCommand = let toDocbook = { useChapters ? false, inputFile, outputFile }:
+    let
+      extraHeader = ''xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" '';
+    in ''
+      {
+        pandoc '${inputFile}' -w docbook ${lib.optionalString useChapters "--chapters"} \
+          --smart \
+          | sed -e 's|<ulink url=|<link xlink:href=|' \
+              -e 's|</ulink>|</link>|' \
+              -e 's|<sect. id=|<section xml:id=|' \
+              -e 's|</sect[0-9]>|</section>|' \
+              -e '1s| id=| xml:id=|' \
+              -e '1s|\(<[^ ]* \)|\1${extraHeader}|'
+      } > '${outputFile}'
+    '';
+  in
 
-    mkdir -p $out/nix-support/
-    echo "doc manual $dest manual.html" >> $out/nix-support/hydra-build-products
+  ''
+    ln -s '${sources}/'*.xml .
+    mkdir ./languages-frameworks
+    cp -s '${sources-langs}'/* ./languages-frameworks
+  ''
+  + toDocbook {
+      inputFile = ./introduction.md;
+      outputFile = "introduction.xml";
+      useChapters = true;
+    }
+  + toDocbook {
+      inputFile = ./languages-frameworks/python.md;
+      outputFile = "./languages-frameworks/python.xml";
+    }
+  + toDocbook {
+      inputFile = ./languages-frameworks/haskell.md;
+      outputFile = "./languages-frameworks/haskell.xml";
+    }
+  + toDocbook {
+      inputFile = ../pkgs/development/idris-modules/README.md;
+      outputFile = "languages-frameworks/idris.xml";
+    }
+  + toDocbook {
+      inputFile = ../pkgs/development/r-modules/README.md;
+      outputFile = "languages-frameworks/r.xml";
+    }
+  + ''
+    echo ${lib.nixpkgsVersion} > .version
+
+    # validate against relaxng schema
+    xmllint --nonet --xinclude --noxincludenode manual.xml --output manual-full.xml
+    ${pkgs.jing}/bin/jing ${pkgs.docbook5}/xml/rng/docbook/docbook.rng manual-full.xml
+
+    dst=$out/share/doc/nixpkgs
+    mkdir -p $dst
+    xsltproc $xsltFlags --nonet --xinclude \
+      --output $dst/manual.html \
+      ${pkgs.docbook5_xsl}/xml/xsl/docbook/xhtml/docbook.xsl \
+      ./manual.xml
+
+    cp ${./style.css} $dst/style.css
+
+    mkdir -p $dst/images/callouts
+    cp "${pkgs.docbook5_xsl}/xml/xsl/docbook/images/callouts/"*.gif $dst/images/callouts/
+
+    mkdir -p $out/nix-support
+    echo "doc manual $dst manual.html" >> $out/nix-support/hydra-build-products
+
+    xsltproc $xsltFlags --nonet --xinclude \
+      --output $dst/epub/ \
+      ${pkgs.docbook5_xsl}/xml/xsl/docbook/epub/docbook.xsl \
+      ./manual.xml
+
+    cp -r $dst/images $dst/epub/OEBPS
+    echo "application/epub+zip" > mimetype
+    zip -0Xq  "$dst/Nixpkgs Contributors Guide - NixOS community.epub" mimetype
+    zip -Xr9D "$dst/Nixpkgs Contributors Guide - NixOS community.epub" $dst/epub/*
   '';
 }

doc/introduction.chapter.md

@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Introduction
-author: Frederik Rietdijk
-date: 2015-11-25
----
-
-# Introduction
-
-The Nix Packages collection (Nixpkgs) is a set of thousands of packages for the
-[Nix package manager](http://nixos.org/nix/), released under a
-[permissive MIT/X11 license](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/COPYING).
-Packages are available for several platforms, and can be used with the Nix
-package manager on most GNU/Linux distributions as well as NixOS.
-
-This manual primarily describes how to write packages for the Nix Packages collection
-(Nixpkgs). Thus it’s mainly for packagers and developers who want to add packages to
-Nixpkgs. If you like to learn more about the Nix package manager and the Nix
-expression language, then you are kindly referred to the [Nix manual](http://nixos.org/nix/manual/).
-
-## Overview of Nixpkgs
-
-Nix expressions describe how to build packages from source and are collected in
-the [nixpkgs repository](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs). Also included in the
-collection are Nix expressions for
-[NixOS modules](http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-writing-modules).
-With these expressions the Nix package manager can build binary packages.
-
-Packages, including the Nix packages collection, are distributed through
-[channels](http://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sec-channels). The collection is
-distributed for users of Nix on non-NixOS distributions through the channel
-`nixpkgs`. Users of NixOS generally use one of the `nixos-*` channels, e.g.
-`nixos-16.03`, which includes all packages and modules for the stable NixOS
-16.03. The purpose of stable NixOS releases are generally only given
-security updates. More up to date packages and modules are available via the
-`nixos-unstable` channel.
-
-Both `nixos-unstable` and `nixpkgs` follow the `master` branch of the Nixpkgs
-repository, although both do lag the `master` branch by generally
-[a couple of days](http://howoldis.herokuapp.com/). Updates to a channel are
-distributed as soon as all tests for that channel pass, e.g.
-[this table](http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/trunk/unstable#tabs-constituents)
-shows the status of tests for the `nixpkgs` channel.
-
-The tests are conducted by a cluster called [Hydra](http://nixos.org/hydra/),
-which also builds binary packages from the Nix expressions in Nixpkgs for
-`x86_64-linux`, `i686-linux` and `x86_64-darwin`.
-The binaries are made available via a [binary cache](https://cache.nixos.org).
-
-The current Nix expressions of the channels are available in the
-[`nixpkgs-channels`](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels) repository,
-which has branches corresponding to the available channels.

doc/introduction.md

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+---
+title: Introduction
+author: Frederik Rietdijk
+date: 2015-11-25
+---
+
+# Introduction
+
+The Nix Packages collection (Nixpkgs) is a set of thousands of packages for the
+[Nix package manager](http://nixos.org/nix/), released under a
+[permissive MIT/X11 license](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/COPYING).
+Packages are available for several platforms, and can be used with the Nix
+package manager on most GNU/Linux distributions as well as NixOS.
+
+This manual primarily describes how to write packages for the Nix Packages collection
+(Nixpkgs). Thus it’s mainly for packagers and developers who want to add packages to
+Nixpkgs. If you like to learn more about the Nix package manager and the Nix
+expression language, then you are kindly referred to the [Nix manual](http://nixos.org/nix/manual/).
+
+## Overview of Nixpkgs
+
+Nix expressions describe how to build packages from source and are collected in
+the [nixpkgs repository](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs). Also included in the
+collection are Nix expressions for
+[NixOS modules](http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-writing-modules).
+With these expressions the Nix package manager can build binary packages.
+
+Packages, including the Nix packages collection, are distributed through
+[channels](http://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sec-channels). The collection is
+distributed for users of Nix on non-NixOS distributions through the channel
+`nixpkgs`. Users of NixOS generally use one of the `nixos-*` channels, e.g.
+`nixos-16.03`, which includes all packages and modules for the stable NixOS
+16.03. The purpose of stable NixOS releases are generally only given
+security updates. More up to date packages and modules are available via the
+`nixos-unstable` channel.
+
+Both `nixos-unstable` and `nixpkgs` follow the `master` branch of the Nixpkgs
+repository, although both do lag the `master` branch by generally
+[a couple of days](http://howoldis.herokuapp.com/). Updates to a channel are
+distributed as soon as all tests for that channel pass, e.g.
+[this table](http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/trunk/unstable#tabs-constituents)
+shows the status of tests for the `nixpkgs` channel.
+
+The tests are conducted by a cluster called [Hydra](http://nixos.org/hydra/),
+which also builds binary packages from the Nix expressions in Nixpkgs for
+`x86_64-linux`, `i686-linux` and `x86_64-darwin`.
+The binaries are made available via a [binary cache](https://cache.nixos.org).
+
+The current Nix expressions of the channels are available in the
+[`nixpkgs-channels`](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels) repository,
+which has branches corresponding to the available channels. There is also the
+[Nixpkgs Monitor](http://monitor.nixos.org) which keeps track of updates
+and security vulnerabilities.

doc/languages-frameworks/beam.xml

@@ -1,137 +1,64 @@
 <section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
          xml:id="sec-beam">
- <title>BEAM Languages (Erlang, Elixir &amp; LFE)</title>
 
- <section xml:id="beam-introduction">
-  <title>Introduction</title>
-
-  <para>
-   In this document and related Nix expressions, we use the term,
-   <emphasis>BEAM</emphasis>, to describe the environment. BEAM is the name of
-   the Erlang Virtual Machine and, as far as we're concerned, from a packaging
-   perspective, all languages that run on the BEAM are interchangeable. That
-   which varies, like the build system, is transparent to users of any given
-   BEAM package, so we make no distinction.
-  </para>
- </section>
-
- <section xml:id="beam-structure">
-  <title>Structure</title>
-
-  <para>
-   All BEAM-related expressions are available via the top-level
-   <literal>beam</literal> attribute, which includes:
-  </para>
-
-  <itemizedlist>
-   <listitem>
+  <title>Beam Languages (Erlang &amp; Elixir)</title>
+  <section xml:id="beam-introduction">
+    <title>Introduction</title>
     <para>
-     <literal>interpreters</literal>: a set of compilers running on the BEAM,
-     including multiple Erlang/OTP versions
-     (<literal>beam.interpreters.erlangR19</literal>, etc), Elixir
-     (<literal>beam.interpreters.elixir</literal>) and LFE
-     (<literal>beam.interpreters.lfe</literal>).
+      In this document and related Nix expressions we use the term
+      <emphasis>Beam</emphasis> to describe the environment. Beam is
+      the name of the Erlang Virtial Machine and, as far as we know,
+      from a packaging perspective all languages that run on Beam are
+      interchangable. The things that do change, like the build
+      system, are transperant to the users of the package. So we make
+      no distinction.
     </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     <literal>packages</literal>: a set of package sets, each compiled with a
-     specific Erlang/OTP version, e.g.
-     <literal>beam.packages.erlangR19</literal>.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-  </itemizedlist>
-
-  <para>
-   The default Erlang compiler, defined by
-   <literal>beam.interpreters.erlang</literal>, is aliased as
-   <literal>erlang</literal>. The default BEAM package set is defined by
-   <literal>beam.packages.erlang</literal> and aliased at the top level as
-   <literal>beamPackages</literal>.
-  </para>
-
-  <para>
-   To create a package set built with a custom Erlang version, use the lambda,
-   <literal>beam.packagesWith</literal>, which accepts an Erlang/OTP derivation
-   and produces a package set similar to
-   <literal>beam.packages.erlang</literal>.
-  </para>
-
-  <para>
-   Many Erlang/OTP distributions available in
-   <literal>beam.interpreters</literal> have versions with ODBC and/or Java
-   enabled. For example, there's
-   <literal>beam.interpreters.erlangR19_odbc_javac</literal>, which corresponds
-   to <literal>beam.interpreters.erlangR19</literal>.
-  </para>
-
-  <para xml:id="erlang-call-package">
-   We also provide the lambda,
-   <literal>beam.packages.erlang.callPackage</literal>, which simplifies
-   writing BEAM package definitions by injecting all packages from
-   <literal>beam.packages.erlang</literal> into the top-level context.
-  </para>
- </section>
-
- <section xml:id="build-tools">
+  </section>
+<section xml:id="build-tools">
   <title>Build Tools</title>
-
   <section xml:id="build-tools-rebar3">
-   <title>Rebar3</title>
-
-   <para>
-    By default, Rebar3 wants to manage its own dependencies. This is perfectly
-    acceptable in the normal, non-Nix setup, but in the Nix world, it is not.
-    To rectify this, we provide two versions of Rebar3:
-    <itemizedlist>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       <literal>rebar3</literal>: patched to remove the ability to download
-       anything. When not running it via <literal>nix-shell</literal> or
-       <literal>nix-build</literal>, it's probably not going to work as
-       desired.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       <literal>rebar3-open</literal>: the normal, unmodified Rebar3. It should
-       work exactly as would any other version of Rebar3. Any Erlang package
-       should rely on <literal>rebar3</literal> instead. See
-       <xref
-            linkend="rebar3-packages"/>.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-   </para>
+    <title>Rebar3</title>
+    <para>
+      By default Rebar3 wants to manage it's own dependencies. In the
+      normal non-Nix, this is perfectly acceptable. In the Nix world it
+      is not. To support this we have created two versions of rebar3,
+      <literal>rebar3</literal> and <literal>rebar3-open</literal>. The
+      <literal>rebar3</literal> version has been patched to remove the
+      ability to download anything from it. If you are not running it a
+      nix-shell or a nix-build then its probably not going to work for
+      you. <literal>rebar3-open</literal> is the normal, un-modified
+      rebar3. It should work exactly as would any other version of
+      rebar3. Any Erlang package should rely on
+      <literal>rebar3</literal> and thats really what you should be
+      using too.
+    </para>
   </section>
-
   <section xml:id="build-tools-other">
-   <title>Mix &amp; Erlang.mk</title>
-
-   <para>
-    Both Mix and Erlang.mk work exactly as expected. There is a bootstrap
-    process that needs to be run for both, however, which is supported by the
-    <literal>buildMix</literal> and <literal>buildErlangMk</literal>
-    derivations, respectively.
-   </para>
+    <title>Mix &amp; Erlang.mk</title>
+    <para>
+      Both Mix and Erlang.mk work exactly as you would expect. There
+      is a bootstrap process that needs to be run for both of
+      them. However, that is supported by the
+      <literal>buildMix</literal> and <literal>buildErlangMk</literal> derivations.
+    </para>
   </section>
- </section>
 
- <section xml:id="how-to-install-beam-packages">
-  <title>How to Install BEAM Packages</title>
+</section>
 
+<section xml:id="how-to-install-beam-packages">
+  <title>How to install Beam packages</title>
   <para>
-   BEAM packages are not registered at the top level, simply because they are
-   not relevant to the vast majority of Nix users. They are installable using
-   the <literal>beam.packages.erlang</literal> attribute set (aliased as
-   <literal>beamPackages</literal>), which points to packages built by the
-   default Erlang/OTP version in Nixpkgs, as defined by
-   <literal>beam.interpreters.erlang</literal>. To list the available packages
-   in <literal>beamPackages</literal>, use the following command:
+    Beam packages are not registered in the top level simply because
+    they are not relevant to the vast majority of Nix users. They are
+    installable using the <literal>beamPackages</literal> attribute
+    set.
+
+    You can list the avialable packages in the
+    <literal>beamPackages</literal> with the following command:
   </para>
 
-<programlisting>
+  <programlisting>
 $ nix-env -f &quot;&lt;nixpkgs&gt;&quot; -qaP -A beamPackages
 beamPackages.esqlite    esqlite-0.2.1
 beamPackages.goldrush   goldrush-0.1.7
@@ -141,197 +68,135 @@ beamPackages.lager      lager-3.0.2
 beamPackages.meck       meck-0.8.3
 beamPackages.rebar3-pc  pc-1.1.0
   </programlisting>
-
   <para>
-   To install any of those packages into your profile, refer to them by their
-   attribute path (first column):
+    To install any of those packages into your profile, refer to them by
+    their attribute path (first column):
   </para>
-
-<programlisting>
+  <programlisting>
 $ nix-env -f &quot;&lt;nixpkgs&gt;&quot; -iA beamPackages.ibrowse
   </programlisting>
-
   <para>
-   The attribute path of any BEAM package corresponds to the name of that
-   particular package in <link xlink:href="https://hex.pm">Hex</link> or its
-   OTP Application/Release name.
+    The attribute path of any Beam packages corresponds to the name
+    of that particular package in Hex or its OTP Application/Release name.
   </para>
- </section>
-
- <section xml:id="packaging-beam-applications">
-  <title>Packaging BEAM Applications</title>
-
+</section>
+<section xml:id="packaging-beam-applications">
+  <title>Packaging Beam Applications</title>
   <section  xml:id="packaging-erlang-applications">
-   <title>Erlang Applications</title>
-
-   <section xml:id="rebar3-packages">
-    <title>Rebar3 Packages</title>
-
-    <para>
-     The Nix function, <literal>buildRebar3</literal>, defined in
-     <literal>beam.packages.erlang.buildRebar3</literal> and aliased at the top
-     level, can be used to build a derivation that understands how to build a
-     Rebar3 project. For example, we can build
-     <link
+    <title>Erlang Applications</title>
+    <section xml:id="rebar3-packages">
+      <title>Rebar3 Packages</title>
+      <para>
+        There is a Nix functional called
+        <literal>buildRebar3</literal>. We use this function to make a
+        derivation that understands how to build the rebar3 project. For
+        example, the epression we use to build the <link
         xlink:href="https://github.com/erlang-nix/hex2nix">hex2nix</link>
-     as follows:
-    </para>
+        project follows.
+      </para>
+      <programlisting>
+        {stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, buildRebar3, ibrowse, jsx, erlware_commons }:
 
-<programlisting>
-        { stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, buildRebar3, ibrowse, jsx, erlware_commons }:
+          buildRebar3 rec {
+            name = "hex2nix";
+            version = "0.0.1";
 
-        buildRebar3 rec {
-          name = "hex2nix";
-          version = "0.0.1";
-
-          src = fetchFromGitHub {
-            owner = "ericbmerritt";
-            repo = "hex2nix";
-            rev = "${version}";
-            sha256 = "1w7xjidz1l5yjmhlplfx7kphmnpvqm67w99hd2m7kdixwdxq0zqg";
-          };
+            src = fetchFromGitHub {
+              owner = "ericbmerritt";
+              repo = "hex2nix";
+              rev = "${version}";
+              sha256 = "1w7xjidz1l5yjmhlplfx7kphmnpvqm67w99hd2m7kdixwdxq0zqg";
+            };
 
           beamDeps = [ ibrowse jsx erlware_commons ];
         }
       </programlisting>
-
-    <para>
-     Such derivations are callable with
-     <literal>beam.packages.erlang.callPackage</literal> (see
-     <xref
-        linkend="erlang-call-package"/>). To call this package using
-     the normal <literal>callPackage</literal>, refer to dependency packages
-     via <literal>beamPackages</literal>, e.g.
-     <literal>beamPackages.ibrowse</literal>.
-    </para>
-
-    <para>
-     Notably, <literal>buildRebar3</literal> includes
-     <literal>beamDeps</literal>, while <literal>stdenv.mkDerivation</literal>
-     does not. BEAM dependencies added there will be correctly handled by the
-     system.
-    </para>
-
-    <para>
-     If a package needs to compile native code via Rebar3's port compilation
-     mechanism, add <literal>compilePort = true;</literal> to the derivation.
-    </para>
-   </section>
-
-   <section xml:id="erlang-mk-packages">
-    <title>Erlang.mk Packages</title>
-
-    <para>
-     Erlang.mk functions similarly to Rebar3, except we use
-     <literal>buildErlangMk</literal> instead of
-     <literal>buildRebar3</literal>.
-    </para>
-
-<programlisting>
-        { buildErlangMk, fetchHex, cowlib, ranch }:
-
-        buildErlangMk {
-          name = "cowboy";
-          version = "1.0.4";
-
-          src = fetchHex {
-            pkg = "cowboy";
+      <para>
+        The only visible difference between this derivation and
+        something like <literal>stdenv.mkDerivation</literal> is that we
+        have added <literal>erlangDeps</literal> to the derivation. If
+        you add your Beam dependencies here they will be correctly
+        handled by the system.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        If your package needs to compile native code via Rebar's port
+        compilation mechenism. You should add <literal>compilePort =
+        true;</literal> to the derivation.
+      </para>
+    </section>
+    <section xml:id="erlang-mk-packages">
+      <title>Erlang.mk Packages</title>
+      <para>
+        Erlang.mk functions almost identically to Rebar. The only real
+        difference is that <literal>buildErlangMk</literal> is called
+        instead of <literal>buildRebar3</literal>
+      </para>
+      <programlisting>
+        { buildErlangMk, fetchHex,  cowlib, ranch }:
+          buildErlangMk {
+            name = "cowboy";
             version = "1.0.4";
-            sha256 = "6a0edee96885fae3a8dd0ac1f333538a42e807db638a9453064ccfdaa6b9fdac";
-          };
+            src = fetchHex {
+              pkg = "cowboy";
+              version = "1.0.4";
+              sha256 =
+                "6a0edee96885fae3a8dd0ac1f333538a42e807db638a9453064ccfdaa6b9fdac";
+            };
+            beamDeps  = [ cowlib ranch ];
 
-          beamDeps = [ cowlib ranch ];
-
-          meta = {
-            description = ''
-              Small, fast, modular HTTP server written in Erlang
-            '';
-            license = stdenv.lib.licenses.isc;
-            homepage = https://github.com/ninenines/cowboy;
-          };
+            meta = {
+              description = ''Small, fast, modular HTTP server written in
+                            Erlang.'';
+              license = stdenv.lib.licenses.isc;
+              homepage = "https://github.com/ninenines/cowboy";
+            };
         }
       </programlisting>
-   </section>
-
-   <section xml:id="mix-packages">
-    <title>Mix Packages</title>
-
-    <para>
-     Mix functions similarly to Rebar3, except we use
-     <literal>buildMix</literal> instead of <literal>buildRebar3</literal>.
-    </para>
-
-<programlisting>
+    </section>
+    <section xml:id="mix-packages">
+      <title>Mix Packages</title>
+      <para>
+        Mix functions almost identically to Rebar. The only real
+        difference is that <literal>buildMix</literal> is called
+        instead of <literal>buildRebar3</literal>
+      </para>
+      <programlisting>
         { buildMix, fetchHex, plug, absinthe }:
-
         buildMix {
           name = "absinthe_plug";
           version = "1.0.0";
-
           src = fetchHex {
             pkg = "absinthe_plug";
             version = "1.0.0";
-            sha256 = "08459823fe1fd4f0325a8bf0c937a4520583a5a26d73b193040ab30a1dfc0b33";
+            sha256 =
+              "08459823fe1fd4f0325a8bf0c937a4520583a5a26d73b193040ab30a1dfc0b33";
           };
-
-          beamDeps = [ plug absinthe ];
+          beamDeps  = [ plug absinthe];
 
           meta = {
-            description = ''
-              A plug for Absinthe, an experimental GraphQL toolkit
-            '';
+            description = ''A plug for Absinthe, an experimental GraphQL
+                            toolkit'';
             license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
-            homepage = https://github.com/CargoSense/absinthe_plug;
-          };
-        }
-      </programlisting>
-
-    <para>
-     Alternatively, we can use <literal>buildHex</literal> as a shortcut:
-    </para>
-
-<programlisting>
-        { buildHex, buildMix, plug, absinthe }:
-
-        buildHex {
-          name = "absinthe_plug";
-          version = "1.0.0";
-
-          sha256 = "08459823fe1fd4f0325a8bf0c937a4520583a5a26d73b193040ab30a1dfc0b33";
-
-          builder = buildMix;
-
-          beamDeps = [ plug absinthe ];
-
-          meta = {
-            description = ''
-              A plug for Absinthe, an experimental GraphQL toolkit
-            '';
-            license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
-            homepage = https://github.com/CargoSense/absinthe_plug;
+            homepage = "https://github.com/CargoSense/absinthe_plug";
          };
        }
       </programlisting>
-   </section>
+    </section>
   </section>
- </section>
-
- <section xml:id="how-to-develop">
-  <title>How to Develop</title>
-
+</section>
+<section xml:id="how-to-develop">
+  <title>How to develop</title>
   <section xml:id="accessing-an-environment">
-   <title>Accessing an Environment</title>
-
-   <para>
-    Often, we simply want to access a valid environment that contains a
-    specific package and its dependencies. We can accomplish that with the
-    <literal>env</literal> attribute of a derivation. For example, let's say we
-    want to access an Erlang REPL with <literal>ibrowse</literal> loaded up. We
-    could do the following:
-   </para>
-
-<programlisting>
-      $ nix-shell -A beamPackages.ibrowse.env --run "erl"
+    <title>Accessing an Environment</title>
+    <para>
+      Often, all you want to do is be able to access a valid
+      environment that contains a specific package and its
+      dependencies. we can do that with the <literal>env</literal>
+      part of a derivation. For example, lets say we want to access an
+      erlang repl with ibrowse loaded up. We could do the following.
+    </para>
+    <programlisting>
+      ~/w/nixpkgs ❯❯❯ nix-shell -A beamPackages.ibrowse.env --run "erl"
       Erlang/OTP 18 [erts-7.0] [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]
 
       Eshell V7.0  (abort with ^G)
@@ -371,25 +236,23 @@ $ nix-env -f &quot;&lt;nixpkgs&gt;&quot; -iA beamPackages.ibrowse
       ok
       2>
     </programlisting>
-
-   <para>
-    Notice the <literal>-A beamPackages.ibrowse.env</literal>. That is the key
-    to this functionality.
-   </para>
+    <para>
+      Notice the <literal>-A beamPackages.ibrowse.env</literal>.That
+      is the key to this functionality.
+    </para>
   </section>
-
   <section xml:id="creating-a-shell">
-   <title>Creating a Shell</title>
-
-   <para>
-    Getting access to an environment often isn't enough to do real development.
-    Usually, we need to create a <literal>shell.nix</literal> file and do our
-    development inside of the environment specified therein. This file looks a
-    lot like the packaging described above, except that <literal>src</literal>
-    points to the project root and we call the package directly.
-   </para>
-
-<programlisting>
+    <title>Creating a Shell</title>
+    <para>
+      Getting access to an environment often isn't enough to do real
+      development. Many times we need to create a
+      <literal>shell.nix</literal> file and do our development inside
+      of the environment specified by that file. This file looks a lot
+      like the packageing described above. The main difference is that
+      <literal>src</literal> points to project root and we call the
+      package directly.
+    </para>
+    <programlisting>
 { pkgs ? import &quot;&lt;nixpkgs&quot;&gt; {} }:
 
 with pkgs;
@@ -401,24 +264,20 @@ let
         name = "hex2nix";
         version = "0.1.0";
         src = ./.;
-        beamDeps = [ ibrowse jsx erlware_commons ];
+        erlangDeps = [ ibrowse jsx erlware_commons ];
       };
   drv = beamPackages.callPackage f {};
 
 in
-
-  drv
+ drv
     </programlisting>
-
-   <section xml:id="building-in-a-shell">
-    <title>Building in a Shell (for Mix Projects)</title>
-
+    <section xml:id="building-in-a-shell">
+    <title>Building in a shell</title>
     <para>
-     We can leverage the support of the derivation, irrespective of the build
-     derivation, by calling the commands themselves.
+      We can leveral the support of the Derivation, regardless of
+      which build Derivation is called by calling the commands themselv.s
     </para>
-
-<programlisting>
+    <programlisting>
 # =============================================================================
 # Variables
 # =============================================================================
@@ -475,54 +334,43 @@ analyze: build plt
         $(NIX_SHELL) --run "mix dialyzer --no-compile"
 
     </programlisting>
-
     <para>
-     Using a <literal>shell.nix</literal> as described (see
-     <xref
-      linkend="creating-a-shell"/>) should just work. Aside from
-     <literal>test</literal>, <literal>plt</literal>, and
-     <literal>analyze</literal>, the Make targets work just fine for all of the
-     build derivations.
+      If you add the <literal>shell.nix</literal> as described and
+      user rebar as follows things should simply work. Aside from the
+      <literal>test</literal>, <literal>plt</literal>, and
+      <literal>analyze</literal> the talks work just fine for all of
+      the build Derivations.
     </para>
-   </section>
   </section>
- </section>
-
- <section xml:id="generating-packages-from-hex-with-hex2nix">
-  <title>Generating Packages from Hex with <literal>hex2nix</literal></title>
-
+</section>
+</section>
+<section xml:id="generating-packages-from-hex-with-hex2nix">
+  <title>Generating Packages from Hex with Hex2Nix</title>
   <para>
-   Updating the <link xlink:href="https://hex.pm">Hex</link> package set
-   requires
-   <link
-    xlink:href="https://github.com/erlang-nix/hex2nix">hex2nix</link>.
-   Given the path to the Erlang modules (usually
-   <literal>pkgs/development/erlang-modules</literal>), it will dump a file
-   called <literal>hex-packages.nix</literal>, containing all the packages that
-   use a recognized build system in
-   <link
-    xlink:href="https://hex.pm">Hex</link>. It can't be determined,
-   however, whether every package is buildable.
-  </para>
-
-  <para>
-   To make life easier for our users, try to build every
-   <link
-      xlink:href="https://hex.pm">Hex</link> package and remove those
-   that fail. To do that, simply run the following command in the root of your
-   <literal>nixpkgs</literal> repository:
-  </para>
-
-<programlisting>
+    Updating the Hex packages requires the use of the
+    <literal>hex2nix</literal> tool. Given the path to the Erlang
+    modules (usually
+    <literal>pkgs/development/erlang-modules</literal>). It will
+    happily dump a file called
+    <literal>hex-packages.nix</literal>. That file will contain all
+    the packages that use a recognized build system in Hex. However,
+    it can't know whether or not all those packages are buildable.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      To make life easier for our users, it makes good sense to go
+      ahead and attempt to build all those packages and remove the
+      ones that don't build. To do that, simply run the command (in
+      the root of your <literal>nixpkgs</literal> repository). that follows.
+    </para>
+    <programlisting>
 $ nix-build -A beamPackages
     </programlisting>
-
-  <para>
-   That will attempt to build every package in <literal>beamPackages</literal>.
-   Then manually remove those that fail. Hopefully, someone will improve
-   <link
-      xlink:href="https://github.com/erlang-nix/hex2nix">hex2nix</link>
-   in the future to automate the process.
-  </para>
- </section>
+    <para>
+      That will build every package in
+      <literal>beamPackages</literal>. Then you can go through and
+      manually remove the ones that fail. Hopefully, someone will
+      improve <literal>hex2nix</literal> in the future to automate
+      that.
+    </para>
+</section>
 </section>

doc/languages-frameworks/bower.xml

@@ -1,37 +1,40 @@
 <section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
          xml:id="sec-bower">
- <title>Bower</title>
 
- <para>
-  <link xlink:href="http://bower.io">Bower</link> is a package manager for web
-  site front-end components. Bower packages (comprising of build artefacts and
-  sometimes sources) are stored in <command>git</command> repositories,
-  typically on Github. The package registry is run by the Bower team with
-  package metadata coming from the <filename>bower.json</filename> file within
-  each package.
- </para>
+<title>Bower</title>
 
- <para>
-  The end result of running Bower is a <filename>bower_components</filename>
-  directory which can be included in the web app's build process.
- </para>
+<para>
+  <link xlink:href="http://bower.io">Bower</link> is a package manager
+  for web site front-end components. Bower packages (comprising of
+  build artefacts and sometimes sources) are stored in
+  <command>git</command> repositories, typically on Github. The
+  package registry is run by the Bower team with package metadata
+  coming from the <filename>bower.json</filename> file within each
+  package.
+</para>
 
- <para>
+<para>
+  The end result of running Bower is a
+  <filename>bower_components</filename> directory which can be included
+  in the web app's build process.
+</para>
+
+<para>
   Bower can be run interactively, by installing
   <varname>nodePackages.bower</varname>. More interestingly, the Bower
   components can be declared in a Nix derivation, with the help of
   <varname>nodePackages.bower2nix</varname>.
- </para>
+</para>
 
- <section xml:id="ssec-bower2nix-usage">
+<section xml:id="ssec-bower2nix-usage">
   <title><command>bower2nix</command> usage</title>
 
-  <para>
-   Suppose you have a <filename>bower.json</filename> with the following
-   contents:
-   <example xml:id="ex-bowerJson">
-    <title><filename>bower.json</filename></title>
+<para>
+  Suppose you have a <filename>bower.json</filename> with the following contents:
+
+
+<example xml:id="ex-bowerJson"><title><filename>bower.json</filename></title>
 <programlisting language="json">
 <![CDATA[{
   "name": "my-web-app",
@@ -41,12 +44,14 @@
   }
 }]]>
 </programlisting>
-   </example>
-  </para>
+</example>
+</para>
+
+
+<para>
+  Running <command>bower2nix</command> will produce something like the
+  following output:
 
-  <para>
-   Running <command>bower2nix</command> will produce something like the
-   following output:
 <programlisting language="nix">
 <![CDATA[{ fetchbower, buildEnv }:
 buildEnv { name = "bower-env"; ignoreCollisions = true; paths = [
@@ -55,31 +60,31 @@ buildEnv { name = "bower-env"; ignoreCollisions = true; paths = [
   (fetchbower "jquery" "2.2.2" "1.9.1 - 2" "10sp5h98sqwk90y4k6hbdviwqzvzwqf47r3r51pakch5ii2y7js1")
 ]; }]]>
 </programlisting>
-  </para>
+</para>
+
+
+<para>
+  Using the <command>bower2nix</command> command line arguments, the
+  output can be redirected to a file. A name like
+  <filename>bower-packages.nix</filename> would be fine.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+  The resulting derivation is a union of all the downloaded Bower
+  packages (and their dependencies). To use it, they still need to be
+  linked together by Bower, which is where
+  <varname>buildBowerComponents</varname> is useful.
+</para>
+</section>
+
+<section xml:id="ssec-build-bower-components"><title><varname>buildBowerComponents</varname> function</title>
 
   <para>
-   Using the <command>bower2nix</command> command line arguments, the output
-   can be redirected to a file. A name like
-   <filename>bower-packages.nix</filename> would be fine.
-  </para>
+  The function is implemented in <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/bower-modules/generic/default.nix">
+  <filename>pkgs/development/bower-modules/generic/default.nix</filename></link>.
+  Example usage:
 
-  <para>
-   The resulting derivation is a union of all the downloaded Bower packages
-   (and their dependencies). To use it, they still need to be linked together
-   by Bower, which is where <varname>buildBowerComponents</varname> is useful.
-  </para>
- </section>
-
- <section xml:id="ssec-build-bower-components">
-  <title><varname>buildBowerComponents</varname> function</title>
-
-  <para>
-   The function is implemented in
-   <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/bower-modules/generic/default.nix">
-   <filename>pkgs/development/bower-modules/generic/default.nix</filename></link>.
-   Example usage:
-   <example xml:id="ex-buildBowerComponents">
-    <title>buildBowerComponents</title>
+<example xml:id="ex-buildBowerComponents"><title>buildBowerComponents</title>
 <programlisting language="nix">
 bowerComponents = buildBowerComponents {
   name = "my-web-app";
@@ -87,42 +92,42 @@ bowerComponents = buildBowerComponents {
   src = myWebApp; <co xml:id="ex-buildBowerComponents-2" />
 };
 </programlisting>
-   </example>
+</example>
   </para>
 
-  <para>
-   In <xref linkend="ex-buildBowerComponents" />, the following arguments are
-   of special significance to the function:
-   <calloutlist>
-    <callout arearefs="ex-buildBowerComponents-1">
-     <para>
-      <varname>generated</varname> specifies the file which was created by
-      <command>bower2nix</command>.
-     </para>
-    </callout>
-    <callout arearefs="ex-buildBowerComponents-2">
-     <para>
-      <varname>src</varname> is your project's sources. It needs to contain a
-      <filename>bower.json</filename> file.
-     </para>
-    </callout>
-   </calloutlist>
-  </para>
+<para>
+In <xref linkend="ex-buildBowerComponents" />, the following arguments
+are of special significance to the function:
 
-  <para>
-   <varname>buildBowerComponents</varname> will run Bower to link together the
-   output of <command>bower2nix</command>, resulting in a
-   <filename>bower_components</filename> directory which can be used.
-  </para>
+<calloutlist>
+  <callout arearefs="ex-buildBowerComponents-1">
+    <para>
+      <varname>generated</varname> specifies the file which was created by <command>bower2nix</command>.
+    </para>
+  </callout>
 
-  <para>
-   Here is an example of a web frontend build process using
-   <command>gulp</command>. You might use <command>grunt</command>, or anything
-   else.
-  </para>
+  <callout arearefs="ex-buildBowerComponents-2">
+    <para>
+      <varname>src</varname> is your project's sources. It needs to
+      contain a <filename>bower.json</filename> file.
+    </para>
+  </callout>
+</calloutlist>
+</para>
 
-  <example xml:id="ex-bowerGulpFile">
-   <title>Example build script (<filename>gulpfile.js</filename>)</title>
+<para>
+  <varname>buildBowerComponents</varname> will run Bower to link
+  together the output of <command>bower2nix</command>, resulting in a
+  <filename>bower_components</filename> directory which can be used.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+  Here is an example of a web frontend build process using
+  <command>gulp</command>. You might use <command>grunt</command>, or
+  anything else.
+</para>
+
+<example xml:id="ex-bowerGulpFile"><title>Example build script (<filename>gulpfile.js</filename>)</title>
 <programlisting language="javascript">
 <![CDATA[var gulp = require('gulp');
 
@@ -137,10 +142,10 @@ gulp.task('build', [], function () {
     .pipe(gulp.dest("./gulpdist/"));
 });]]>
 </programlisting>
-  </example>
+</example>
 
-  <example xml:id="ex-buildBowerComponentsDefaultNix">
-   <title>Full example — <filename>default.nix</filename></title>
+<example xml:id="ex-buildBowerComponentsDefaultNix">
+  <title>Full example — <filename>default.nix</filename></title>
 <programlisting language="nix">
 { myWebApp ? { outPath = ./.; name = "myWebApp"; }
 , pkgs ? import &lt;nixpkgs&gt; {}
@@ -167,63 +172,73 @@ pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
   installPhase = "mv gulpdist $out";
 }
 </programlisting>
-  </example>
+</example>
 
-  <para>
-   A few notes about <xref linkend="ex-buildBowerComponentsDefaultNix" />:
-   <calloutlist>
-    <callout arearefs="ex-buildBowerComponentsDefault-1">
-     <para>
-      The result of <varname>buildBowerComponents</varname> is an input to the
-      frontend build.
-     </para>
-    </callout>
-    <callout arearefs="ex-buildBowerComponentsDefault-2">
-     <para>
-      Whether to symlink or copy the <filename>bower_components</filename>
-      directory depends on the build tool in use. In this case a copy is used
-      to avoid <command>gulp</command> silliness with permissions.
-     </para>
-    </callout>
-    <callout arearefs="ex-buildBowerComponentsDefault-3">
-     <para>
-      <command>gulp</command> requires <varname>HOME</varname> to refer to a
-      writeable directory.
-     </para>
-    </callout>
-    <callout arearefs="ex-buildBowerComponentsDefault-4">
-     <para>
+<para>
+A few notes about <xref linkend="ex-buildBowerComponentsDefaultNix" />:
+
+<calloutlist>
+  <callout arearefs="ex-buildBowerComponentsDefault-1">
+    <para>
+      The result of <varname>buildBowerComponents</varname> is an
+      input to the frontend build.
+    </para>
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs="ex-buildBowerComponentsDefault-2">
+    <para>
+      Whether to symlink or copy the
+      <filename>bower_components</filename> directory depends on the
+      build tool in use. In this case a copy is used to avoid
+      <command>gulp</command> silliness with permissions.
+    </para>
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs="ex-buildBowerComponentsDefault-3">
+    <para>
+      <command>gulp</command> requires <varname>HOME</varname> to
+      refer to a writeable directory.
+    </para>
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs="ex-buildBowerComponentsDefault-4">
+    <para>
       The actual build command. Other tools could be used.
-     </para>
-    </callout>
-   </calloutlist>
-  </para>
- </section>
+    </para>
+  </callout>
+</calloutlist>
+</para>
+</section>
 
- <section xml:id="ssec-bower2nix-troubleshooting">
+<section xml:id="ssec-bower2nix-troubleshooting">
   <title>Troubleshooting</title>
 
-  <variablelist>
-   <varlistentry>
+<variablelist>
+
+  <varlistentry>
     <term>
-     <literal>ENOCACHE</literal> errors from <varname>buildBowerComponents</varname>
+    <literal>ENOCACHE</literal> errors from
+    <varname>buildBowerComponents</varname>
     </term>
     <listitem>
-     <para>
-      This means that Bower was looking for a package version which doesn't
-      exist in the generated <filename>bower-packages.nix</filename>.
-     </para>
-     <para>
-      If <filename>bower.json</filename> has been updated, then run
-      <command>bower2nix</command> again.
-     </para>
-     <para>
-      It could also be a bug in <command>bower2nix</command> or
-      <command>fetchbower</command>. If possible, try reformulating the version
-      specification in <filename>bower.json</filename>.
-     </para>
+      <para>
+        This means that Bower was looking for a package version which
+        doesn't exist in the generated
+        <filename>bower-packages.nix</filename>.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        If <filename>bower.json</filename> has been updated, then run
+        <command>bower2nix</command> again.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        It could also be a bug in <command>bower2nix</command> or
+        <command>fetchbower</command>. If possible, try reformulating
+        the version specification in <filename>bower.json</filename>.
+      </para>
     </listitem>
-   </varlistentry>
-  </variablelist>
- </section>
+  </varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
+
+</section>
+
 </section>

doc/languages-frameworks/coq.xml

@@ -1,65 +1,41 @@
 <section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
          xml:id="sec-language-coq">
- <title>Coq</title>
 
- <para>
-  Coq libraries should be installed in
-  <literal>$(out)/lib/coq/${coq.coq-version}/user-contrib/</literal>. Such
-  directories are automatically added to the <literal>$COQPATH</literal>
-  environment variable by the hook defined in the Coq derivation.
- </para>
-
- <para>
-  Some libraries require OCaml and sometimes also Camlp5 or findlib. The exact
-  versions that were used to build Coq are saved in the
-  <literal>coq.ocaml</literal> and <literal>coq.camlp5</literal> and
-  <literal>coq.findlib</literal> attributes.
- </para>
-
- <para>
-  Coq libraries may be compatible with some specific versions of Coq only. The
-  <literal>compatibleCoqVersions</literal> attribute is used to precisely
-  select those versions of Coq that are compatible with this derivation.
- </para>
-
- <para>
-  Here is a simple package example. It is a pure Coq library, thus it depends
-  on Coq. It builds on the Mathematical Components library, thus it also takes
-  <literal>mathcomp</literal> as <literal>buildInputs</literal>. Its
-  <literal>Makefile</literal> has been generated using
-  <literal>coq_makefile</literal> so we only have to set the
-  <literal>$COQLIB</literal> variable at install time.
- </para>
-
-<programlisting>
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, coq, mathcomp }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "coq${coq.coq-version}-multinomials-${version}";
-  version = "1.0";
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "math-comp";
-    repo = "multinomials";
-    rev = version;
-    sha256 = "1qmbxp1h81cy3imh627pznmng0kvv37k4hrwi2faa101s6bcx55m";
+<title>Coq</title>
+  <para>
+    Coq libraries should be installed in
+    <literal>$(out)/lib/coq/${coq.coq-version}/user-contrib/</literal>.
+    Such directories are automatically added to the
+    <literal>$COQPATH</literal> environment variable by the hook defined
+    in the Coq derivation.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+    Some libraries require OCaml and sometimes also Camlp5. The exact
+    versions that were used to build Coq are saved in the
+    <literal>coq.ocaml</literal> and <literal>coq.camlp5</literal>
+    attributes.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+    Here is a simple package example. It is a pure Coq library, thus it
+    only depends on Coq. Its <literal>makefile</literal> has been
+    generated using <literal>coq_makefile</literal> so we only have to
+    set the <literal>$COQLIB</literal> variable at install time.
+  </para>
+  <programlisting>
+{stdenv, fetchurl, coq}:
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://coq.inria.fr/pylons/contribs/files/Karatsuba/v8.4/Karatsuba.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "0ymfpv4v49k4fm63nq6gcl1hbnnxrvjjp7yzc4973n49b853c5b1";
   };
 
+  name = "coq-karatsuba";
+
   buildInputs = [ coq ];
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ mathcomp ];
 
   installFlags = "COQLIB=$(out)/lib/coq/${coq.coq-version}/";
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "A Coq/SSReflect Library for Monoidal Rings and Multinomials";
-    inherit (src.meta) homepage;
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.cecill-b;
-    inherit (coq.meta) platforms;
-  };
-
-  passthru = {
-    compatibleCoqVersions = v: builtins.elem v [ "8.5" "8.6" "8.7" ];
-  };
 }
 </programlisting>
 </section>
+

doc/languages-frameworks/go.xml

@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
 <section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
          xml:id="sec-language-go">
- <title>Go</title>
 
- <para>
-  The function <varname>buildGoPackage</varname> builds standard Go programs.
- </para>
+<title>Go</title>
 
- <example xml:id='ex-buildGoPackage'>
-  <title>buildGoPackage</title>
+<para>The function <varname>buildGoPackage</varname> builds
+standard Go programs.
+</para>
+
+<example xml:id='ex-buildGoPackage'><title>buildGoPackage</title>
 <programlisting>
 deis = buildGoPackage rec {
   name = "deis-${version}";
   version = "1.13.0";
-
+  
   goPackagePath = "github.com/deis/deis"; <co xml:id='ex-buildGoPackage-1' />
   subPackages = [ "client" ]; <co xml:id='ex-buildGoPackage-2' />
 
@@ -24,137 +24,132 @@ deis = buildGoPackage rec {
     sha256 = "1qv9lxqx7m18029lj8cw3k7jngvxs4iciwrypdy0gd2nnghc68sw";
   };
 
-  goDeps = ./deps.nix; <co xml:id='ex-buildGoPackage-3' />
+  goDeps = ./deps.json; <co xml:id='ex-buildGoPackage-3' />
 
   buildFlags = "--tags release"; <co xml:id='ex-buildGoPackage-4' />
 }
 </programlisting>
- </example>
+</example>
 
- <para>
-  <xref linkend='ex-buildGoPackage'/> is an example expression using
-  buildGoPackage, the following arguments are of special significance to the
-  function:
-  <calloutlist>
-   <callout arearefs='ex-buildGoPackage-1'>
-    <para>
-     <varname>goPackagePath</varname> specifies the package's canonical Go
-     import path.
-    </para>
-   </callout>
-   <callout arearefs='ex-buildGoPackage-2'>
-    <para>
-     <varname>subPackages</varname> limits the builder from building child
-     packages that have not been listed. If <varname>subPackages</varname> is
-     not specified, all child packages will be built.
-    </para>
-    <para>
-     In this example only <literal>github.com/deis/deis/client</literal> will
-     be built.
-    </para>
-   </callout>
-   <callout arearefs='ex-buildGoPackage-3'>
-    <para>
-     <varname>goDeps</varname> is where the Go dependencies of a Go program are
-     listed as a list of package source identified by Go import path. It could
-     be imported as a separate <varname>deps.nix</varname> file for
-     readability. The dependency data structure is described below.
-    </para>
-   </callout>
-   <callout arearefs='ex-buildGoPackage-4'>
-    <para>
-     <varname>buildFlags</varname> is a list of flags passed to the go build
-     command.
-    </para>
-   </callout>
-  </calloutlist>
- </para>
+<para><xref linkend='ex-buildGoPackage'/> is an example expression using buildGoPackage,
+the following arguments are of special significance to the function:
 
- <para>
-  The <varname>goDeps</varname> attribute can be imported from a separate
-  <varname>nix</varname> file that defines which Go libraries are needed and
-  should be included in <varname>GOPATH</varname> for
-  <varname>buildPhase</varname>.
- </para>
+<calloutlist>
 
- <example xml:id='ex-goDeps'>
-  <title>deps.nix</title>
+  <callout arearefs='ex-buildGoPackage-1'>
+    <para>
+      <varname>goPackagePath</varname> specifies the package's canonical Go import path.
+    </para>
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-buildGoPackage-2'>
+    <para>
+      <varname>subPackages</varname> limits the builder from building child packages that
+      have not been listed. If <varname>subPackages</varname> is not specified, all child
+      packages will be built.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      In this example only <literal>github.com/deis/deis/client</literal> will be built.
+    </para>
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-buildGoPackage-3'>
+    <para>
+      <varname>goDeps</varname> is where the Go dependencies of a Go program are listed
+      in a JSON format described below.
+    </para>
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-buildGoPackage-4'>
+    <para>
+      <varname>buildFlags</varname> is a list of flags passed to the go build command.
+    </para>
+  </callout>
+
+</calloutlist>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>The <varname>goDeps</varname> attribute should point to a JSON file that defines which Go libraries
+  are needed and should be included in <varname>GOPATH</varname> for <varname>buildPhase</varname>.
+
+</para>
+
+<example xml:id='ex-goDeps'><title>deps.json</title>
 <programlisting>
 [ <co xml:id='ex-goDeps-1' />
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "gopkg.in/yaml.v2"; <co xml:id='ex-goDeps-2' />
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git"; <co xml:id='ex-goDeps-3' />
-      url = "https://gopkg.in/yaml.v2";
-      rev = "a83829b6f1293c91addabc89d0571c246397bbf4";
-      sha256 = "1m4dsmk90sbi17571h6pld44zxz7jc4lrnl4f27dpd1l8g5xvjhh";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "github.com/docopt/docopt-go";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/docopt/docopt-go";
-      rev = "784ddc588536785e7299f7272f39101f7faccc3f";
-      sha256 = "0wwz48jl9fvl1iknvn9dqr4gfy1qs03gxaikrxxp9gry6773v3sj";
-    };
-  }
+    {
+        "goPackagePath": "gopkg.in/yaml.v2", <co xml:id='ex-goDeps-2' />
+        "fetch": {
+          "type": "git", <co xml:id='ex-goDeps-3' />
+          "url": "https://gopkg.in/yaml.v2",
+          "rev": "a83829b6f1293c91addabc89d0571c246397bbf4",
+          "sha256": "1m4dsmk90sbi17571h6pld44zxz7jc4lrnl4f27dpd1l8g5xvjhh"
+        }
+    }
 ]
 </programlisting>
- </example>
+</example>
 
- <para>
-  <calloutlist>
-   <callout arearefs='ex-goDeps-1'>
-    <para>
-     <varname>goDeps</varname> is a list of Go dependencies.
-    </para>
-   </callout>
-   <callout arearefs='ex-goDeps-2'>
-    <para>
-     <varname>goPackagePath</varname> specifies Go package import path.
-    </para>
-   </callout>
-   <callout arearefs='ex-goDeps-3'>
-    <para>
-     <varname>fetch type</varname> that needs to be used to get package source.
-     If <varname>git</varname> is used there should be <varname>url</varname>,
-     <varname>rev</varname> and <varname>sha256</varname> defined next to it.
-    </para>
-   </callout>
-  </calloutlist>
- </para>
+<para>
 
- <para>
-  To extract dependency information from a Go package in automated way use
-  <link xlink:href="https://github.com/kamilchm/go2nix">go2nix</link>. It can
-  produce complete derivation and <varname>goDeps</varname> file for Go
-  programs.
- </para>
+<calloutlist>
 
- <para>
-  <varname>buildGoPackage</varname> produces
-  <xref linkend='chap-multiple-output' xrefstyle="select: title" /> where
-  <varname>bin</varname> includes program binaries. You can test build a Go
-  binary as follows:
-<screen>
+  <callout arearefs='ex-goDeps-1'>
+    <para>
+      <varname>goDeps</varname> is a list of Go dependencies.
+    </para>
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-goDeps-2'>
+    <para>
+      <varname>goPackagePath</varname> specifies Go package import path.
+    </para>
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-goDeps-3'>
+    <para>
+      <varname>fetch type</varname> that needs to be used to get package source. If <varname>git</varname>
+      is used there should be <varname>url</varname>, <varname>rev</varname> and <varname>sha256</varname>
+      defined next to it.
+    </para>
+  </callout>
+
+</calloutlist>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>
+  <varname>buildGoPackage</varname> produces <xref linkend='chap-multiple-output' xrefstyle="select: title" />
+  where <varname>bin</varname> includes program binaries. You can test build a Go binary as follows:
+
+  <screen>
     $ nix-build -A deis.bin
   </screen>
+
   or build all outputs with:
-<screen>
+
+  <screen>
     $ nix-build -A deis.all
   </screen>
-  <varname>bin</varname> output will be installed by default with
-  <varname>nix-env -i</varname> or <varname>systemPackages</varname>.
- </para>
 
- <para>
-  You may use Go packages installed into the active Nix profiles by adding the
-  following to your ~/.bashrc:
+  <varname>bin</varname> output will be installed by default with <varname>nix-env -i</varname>
+  or <varname>systemPackages</varname>.
+
+</para>
+
+<para>
+You may use Go packages installed into the active Nix profiles by adding
+the following to your ~/.bashrc:
+
 <screen>
 for p in $NIX_PROFILES; do
     GOPATH="$p/share/go:$GOPATH"
 done
 </screen>
- </para>
+</para>
+
+<para>To extract dependency information from a Go package in automated way use <link xlink:href="https://github.com/kamilchm/go2nix">go2nix</link>.
+  It can produce complete derivation and <varname>goDeps</varname> file for Go programs.</para>
 </section>
+

doc/languages-frameworks/haskell.md

@@ -0,0 +1,825 @@
+---
+title: User's Guide for Haskell in Nixpkgs
+author: Peter Simons
+date: 2015-06-01
+---
+# User's Guide to the Haskell Infrastructure
+
+
+## How to install Haskell packages
+
+Nixpkgs distributes build instructions for all Haskell packages registered on
+[Hackage](http://hackage.haskell.org/), but strangely enough normal Nix package
+lookups don't seem to discover any of them, except for the default version of ghc, cabal-install, and stack:
+
+    $ nix-env -i alex
+    error: selector ‘alex’ matches no derivations
+    $ nix-env -qa ghc
+    ghc-7.10.2
+
+The Haskell package set is not registered in the top-level namespace because it
+is *huge*. If all Haskell packages were visible to these commands, then
+name-based search/install operations would be much slower than they are now. We
+avoided that by keeping all Haskell-related packages in a separate attribute
+set called `haskellPackages`, which the following command will list:
+
+    $ nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -qaP -A haskellPackages
+    haskellPackages.a50         a50-0.5
+    haskellPackages.abacate     haskell-abacate-0.0.0.0
+    haskellPackages.abcBridge   haskell-abcBridge-0.12
+    haskellPackages.afv         afv-0.1.1
+    haskellPackages.alex        alex-3.1.4
+    haskellPackages.Allure      Allure-0.4.101.1
+    haskellPackages.alms        alms-0.6.7
+    [... some 8000 entries omitted  ...]
+
+To install any of those packages into your profile, refer to them by their
+attribute path (first column):
+
+    $ nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -iA haskellPackages.Allure ...
+
+The attribute path of any Haskell packages corresponds to the name of that
+particular package on Hackage: the package `cabal-install` has the attribute
+`haskellPackages.cabal-install`, and so on. (Actually, this convention causes
+trouble with packages like `3dmodels` and `4Blocks`, because these names are
+invalid identifiers in the Nix language. The issue of how to deal with these
+rare corner cases is currently unresolved.)
+
+Haskell packages who's Nix name (second column) begins with a `haskell-` prefix
+are packages that provide a library whereas packages without that prefix
+provide just executables. Libraries may provide executables too, though: the
+package `haskell-pandoc`, for example, installs both a library and an
+application. You can install and use Haskell executables just like any other
+program in Nixpkgs, but using Haskell libraries for development is a bit
+trickier and we'll address that subject in great detail in section [How to
+create a development environment].
+
+Attribute paths are deterministic inside of Nixpkgs, but the path necessary to
+reach Nixpkgs varies from system to system. We dodged that problem by giving
+`nix-env` an explicit `-f "<nixpkgs>"` parameter, but if you call `nix-env`
+without that flag, then chances are the invocation fails:
+
+    $ nix-env -iA haskellPackages.cabal-install
+    error: attribute ‘haskellPackages’ in selection path
+           ‘haskellPackages.cabal-install’ not found
+
+On NixOS, for example, Nixpkgs does *not* exist in the top-level namespace by
+default. To figure out the proper attribute path, it's easiest to query for the
+path of a well-known Nixpkgs package, i.e.:
+
+    $ nix-env -qaP coreutils
+    nixos.coreutils  coreutils-8.23
+
+If your system responds like that (most NixOS installations will), then the
+attribute path to `haskellPackages` is `nixos.haskellPackages`. Thus, if you
+want to use `nix-env` without giving an explicit `-f` flag, then that's the way
+to do it:
+
+    $ nix-env -qaP -A nixos.haskellPackages
+    $ nix-env -iA nixos.haskellPackages.cabal-install
+
+Our current default compiler is GHC 7.10.x and the `haskellPackages` set
+contains packages built with that particular version. Nixpkgs contains the
+latest major release of every GHC since 6.10.4, however, and there is a whole
+family of package sets available that defines Hackage packages built with each
+of those compilers, too:
+
+    $ nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -qaP -A haskell.packages.ghc6123
+    $ nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -qaP -A haskell.packages.ghc763
+
+The name `haskellPackages` is really just a synonym for
+`haskell.packages.ghc7102`, because we prefer that package set internally and
+recommend it to our users as their default choice, but ultimately you are free
+to compile your Haskell packages with any GHC version you please. The following
+command displays the complete list of available compilers:
+
+    $ nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -qaP -A haskell.compiler
+    haskell.compiler.ghc6104        ghc-6.10.4
+    haskell.compiler.ghc6123        ghc-6.12.3
+    haskell.compiler.ghc704         ghc-7.0.4
+    haskell.compiler.ghc722         ghc-7.2.2
+    haskell.compiler.ghc742         ghc-7.4.2
+    haskell.compiler.ghc763         ghc-7.6.3
+    haskell.compiler.ghc784         ghc-7.8.4
+    haskell.compiler.ghc7102        ghc-7.10.2
+    haskell.compiler.ghcHEAD        ghc-7.11.20150402
+    haskell.compiler.ghcNokinds     ghc-nokinds-7.11.20150704
+    haskell.compiler.ghcjs          ghcjs-0.1.0
+    haskell.compiler.jhc            jhc-0.8.2
+    haskell.compiler.uhc            uhc-1.1.9.0
+
+We have no package sets for `jhc` or `uhc` yet, unfortunately, but for every
+version of GHC listed above, there exists a package set based on that compiler.
+Also, the attributes `haskell.compiler.ghcXYC` and
+`haskell.packages.ghcXYC.ghc` are synonymous for the sake of convenience.
+
+## How to create a development environment
+
+### How to install a compiler
+
+A simple development environment consists of a Haskell compiler and one or both
+of the tools `cabal-install` and `stack`. We saw in section
+[How to install Haskell packages] how you can install those programs into your
+user profile:
+
+    $ nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -iA haskellPackages.ghc haskellPackages.cabal-install
+
+Instead of the default package set `haskellPackages`, you can also use the more
+precise name `haskell.compiler.ghc7102`, which has the advantage that it refers
+to the same GHC version regardless of what Nixpkgs considers "default" at any
+given time.
+
+Once you've made those tools available in `$PATH`, it's possible to build
+Hackage packages the same way people without access to Nix do it all the time:
+
+    $ cabal get lens-4.11 && cd lens-4.11
+    $ cabal install -j --dependencies-only
+    $ cabal configure
+    $ cabal build
+
+If you enjoy working with Cabal sandboxes, then that's entirely possible too:
+just execute the command
+
+    $ cabal sandbox init
+
+before installing the required dependencies.
+
+The `nix-shell` utility makes it easy to switch to a different compiler
+version; just enter the Nix shell environment with the command
+
+    $ nix-shell -p haskell.compiler.ghc784
+
+to bring GHC 7.8.4 into `$PATH`. Alternatively, you can use Stack instead of
+`nix-shell` directly to select compiler versions and other build tools
+per-project. It uses `nix-shell` under the hood when Nix support is turned on.
+See [How to build a Haskell project using Stack].
+
+If you're using `cabal-install`, re-running `cabal configure` inside the spawned
+shell switches your build to use that compiler instead. If you're working on
+a project that doesn't depend on any additional system libraries outside of GHC,
+then it's even sufficient to just run the `cabal configure` command inside of
+the shell:
+
+    $ nix-shell -p haskell.compiler.ghc784 --command "cabal configure"
+
+Afterwards, all other commands like `cabal build` work just fine in any shell
+environment, because the configure phase recorded the absolute paths to all
+required tools like GHC in its build configuration inside of the `dist/`
+directory. Please note, however, that `nix-collect-garbage` can break such an
+environment because the Nix store paths created by `nix-shell` aren't "alive"
+anymore once `nix-shell` has terminated. If you find that your Haskell builds
+no longer work after garbage collection, then you'll have to re-run `cabal
+configure` inside of a new `nix-shell` environment.
+
+### How to install a compiler with libraries
+
+GHC expects to find all installed libraries inside of its own `lib` directory.
+This approach works fine on traditional Unix systems, but it doesn't work for
+Nix, because GHC's store path is immutable once it's built. We cannot install
+additional libraries into that location. As a consequence, our copies of GHC
+don't know any packages except their own core libraries, like `base`,
+`containers`, `Cabal`, etc.
+
+We can register additional libraries to GHC, however, using a special build
+function called `ghcWithPackages`. That function expects one argument: a
+function that maps from an attribute set of Haskell packages to a list of
+packages, which determines the libraries known to that particular version of
+GHC. For example, the Nix expression `ghcWithPackages (pkgs: [pkgs.mtl])`
+generates a copy of GHC that has the `mtl` library registered in addition to
+its normal core packages:
+
+    $ nix-shell -p "haskellPackages.ghcWithPackages (pkgs: [pkgs.mtl])"
+
+    [nix-shell:~]$ ghc-pkg list mtl
+    /nix/store/zy79...-ghc-7.10.2/lib/ghc-7.10.2/package.conf.d:
+        mtl-2.2.1
+
+This function allows users to define their own development environment by means
+of an override. After adding the following snippet to `~/.nixpkgs/config.nix`,
+
+    {
+      packageOverrides = super: let self = super.pkgs; in
+      {
+        myHaskellEnv = self.haskell.packages.ghc7102.ghcWithPackages
+                         (haskellPackages: with haskellPackages; [
+                           # libraries
+                           arrows async cgi criterion
+                           # tools
+                           cabal-install haskintex
+                         ]);
+      };
+    }
+
+it's possible to install that compiler with `nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -iA
+myHaskellEnv`. If you'd like to switch that development environment to a
+different version of GHC, just replace the `ghc7102` bit in the previous
+definition with the appropriate name. Of course, it's also possible to define
+any number of these development environments! (You can't install two of them
+into the same profile at the same time, though, because that would result in
+file conflicts.)
+
+The generated `ghc` program is a wrapper script that re-directs the real
+GHC executable to use a new `lib` directory --- one that we specifically
+constructed to contain all those packages the user requested:
+
+    $ cat $(type -p ghc)
+    #! /nix/store/xlxj...-bash-4.3-p33/bin/bash -e
+    export NIX_GHC=/nix/store/19sm...-ghc-7.10.2/bin/ghc
+    export NIX_GHCPKG=/nix/store/19sm...-ghc-7.10.2/bin/ghc-pkg
+    export NIX_GHC_DOCDIR=/nix/store/19sm...-ghc-7.10.2/share/doc/ghc/html
+    export NIX_GHC_LIBDIR=/nix/store/19sm...-ghc-7.10.2/lib/ghc-7.10.2
+    exec /nix/store/j50p...-ghc-7.10.2/bin/ghc "-B$NIX_GHC_LIBDIR" "$@"
+
+The variables `$NIX_GHC`, `$NIX_GHCPKG`, etc. point to the *new* store path
+`ghcWithPackages` constructed specifically for this environment. The last line
+of the wrapper script then executes the real `ghc`, but passes the path to the
+new `lib` directory using GHC's `-B` flag.
+
+The purpose of those environment variables is to work around an impurity in the
+popular [ghc-paths](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-paths) library. That
+library promises to give its users access to GHC's installation paths. Only,
+the library can't possible know that path when it's compiled, because the path
+GHC considers its own is determined only much later, when the user configures
+it through `ghcWithPackages`. So we [patched
+ghc-paths](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/patches/ghc-paths-nix.patch)
+to return the paths found in those environment variables at run-time rather
+than trying to guess them at compile-time.
+
+To make sure that mechanism works properly all the time, we recommend that you
+set those variables to meaningful values in your shell environment, too, i.e.
+by adding the following code to your `~/.bashrc`:
+
+    if type >/dev/null 2>&1 -p ghc; then
+      eval "$(egrep ^export "$(type -p ghc)")"
+    fi
+
+If you are certain that you'll use only one GHC environment which is located in
+your user profile, then you can use the following code, too, which has the
+advantage that it doesn't contain any paths from the Nix store, i.e. those
+settings always remain valid even if a `nix-env -u` operation updates the GHC
+environment in your profile:
+
+    if [ -e ~/.nix-profile/bin/ghc ]; then
+      export NIX_GHC="$HOME/.nix-profile/bin/ghc"
+      export NIX_GHCPKG="$HOME/.nix-profile/bin/ghc-pkg"
+      export NIX_GHC_DOCDIR="$HOME/.nix-profile/share/doc/ghc/html"
+      export NIX_GHC_LIBDIR="$HOME/.nix-profile/lib/ghc-$($NIX_GHC --numeric-version)"
+    fi
+
+### How to install a compiler with libraries, hoogle and documentation indexes
+
+If you plan to use your environment for interactive programming, not just
+compiling random Haskell code, you might want to replace `ghcWithPackages` in
+all the listings above with `ghcWithHoogle`.
+
+This environment generator not only produces an environment with GHC and all
+the specified libraries, but also generates a `hoogle` and `haddock` indexes
+for all the packages, and provides a wrapper script around `hoogle` binary that
+uses all those things. A precise name for this thing would be
+"`ghcWithPackagesAndHoogleAndDocumentationIndexes`", which is, regrettably, too
+long and scary.
+
+For example, installing the following environment
+
+    {
+      packageOverrides = super: let self = super.pkgs; in
+      {
+        myHaskellEnv = self.haskellPackages.ghcWithHoogle
+                         (haskellPackages: with haskellPackages; [
+                           # libraries
+                           arrows async cgi criterion
+                           # tools
+                           cabal-install haskintex
+                         ]);
+      };
+    }
+
+allows one to browse module documentation index [not too dissimilar to
+this](https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/libraries/index.html)
+for all the specified packages and their dependencies by directing a browser of
+choice to `~/.nix-profiles/share/doc/hoogle/index.html` (or
+`/run/current-system/sw/share/doc/hoogle/index.html` in case you put it in
+`environment.systemPackages` in NixOS).
+
+After you've marveled enough at that try adding the following to your
+`~/.ghc/ghci.conf`
+
+    :def hoogle \s -> return $ ":! hoogle search -cl --count=15 \"" ++ s ++ "\""
+    :def doc \s -> return $ ":! hoogle search -cl --info \"" ++ s ++ "\""
+
+and test it by typing into `ghci`:
+
+    :hoogle a -> a
+    :doc a -> a
+
+Be sure to note the links to `haddock` files in the output. With any modern and
+properly configured terminal emulator you can just click those links to
+navigate there.
+
+Finally, you can run
+
+    hoogle server -p 8080
+
+and navigate to http://localhost:8080/ for your own local
+[Hoogle](https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/). Note, however, that Firefox and
+possibly other browsers disallow navigation from `http:` to `file:` URIs for
+security reasons, which might be quite an inconvenience. See [this
+page](http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_do_not_work) for
+workarounds.
+
+### How to build a Haskell project using Stack
+
+[Stack](http://haskellstack.org) is a popular build tool for Haskell projects.
+It has first-class support for Nix. Stack can optionally use Nix to
+automatically select the right version of GHC and other build tools to build,
+test and execute apps in an existing project downloaded from somewhere on the
+Internet. Pass the `--nix` flag to any `stack` command to do so, e.g.
+
+    $ git clone --recursive http://github.com/yesodweb/wai
+    $ cd wai
+    $ stack --nix build
+
+If you want `stack` to use Nix by default, you can add a `nix` section to the
+`stack.yaml` file, as explained in the [Stack documentation][stack-nix-doc]. For
+example:
+
+    nix:
+      enable: true
+      packages: [pkgconfig zeromq zlib]
+
+The example configuration snippet above tells Stack to create an ad hoc
+environment for `nix-shell` as in the below section, in which the `pkgconfig`,
+`zeromq` and `zlib` packages from Nixpkgs are available. All `stack` commands
+will implicitly be executed inside this ad hoc environment.
+
+Some projects have more sophisticated needs. For examples, some ad hoc
+environments might need to expose Nixpkgs packages compiled in a certain way, or
+with extra environment variables. In these cases, you'll need a `shell` field
+instead of `packages`:
+
+    nix:
+      enable: true
+      shell-file: shell.nix
+
+For more on how to write a `shell.nix` file see the below section. You'll need
+to express a derivation. Note that Nixpkgs ships with a convenience wrapper
+function around `mkDerivation` called `haskell.lib.buildStackProject` to help you
+create this derivation in exactly the way Stack expects. All of the same inputs
+as `mkDerivation` can be provided. For example, to build a Stack project that
+including packages that link against a version of the R library compiled with
+special options turned on:
+
+    with (import <nixpkgs> { });
+
+    let R = pkgs.R.override { enableStrictBarrier = true; };
+    in
+	haskell.lib.buildStackProject {
+      name = "HaskellR";
+	  buildInputs = [ R zeromq zlib ];
+    }
+
+You can select a particular GHC version to compile with by setting the
+`ghc` attribute as an argument to `buildStackProject`. Better yet, let
+Stack choose what GHC version it wants based on the snapshot specified
+in `stack.yaml` (only works with Stack >= 1.1.3):
+
+    {nixpkgs ? import <nixpkgs> { }, ghc ? nixpkgs.ghc}
+
+    with nixpkgs;
+
+    let R = pkgs.R.override { enableStrictBarrier = true; };
+    in
+    haskell.lib.buildStackProject {
+      name = "HaskellR";
+      buildInputs = [ R zeromq zlib ];
+      inherit ghc;
+    }
+
+[stack-nix-doc]: http://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/nix_integration.html
+
+### How to create ad hoc environments for `nix-shell`
+
+The easiest way to create an ad hoc development environment is to run
+`nix-shell` with the appropriate GHC environment given on the command-line:
+
+    nix-shell -p "haskellPackages.ghcWithPackages (pkgs: with pkgs; [mtl pandoc])"
+
+For more sophisticated use-cases, however, it's more convenient to save the
+desired configuration in a file called `shell.nix` that looks like this:
+
+    { nixpkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {}, compiler ? "ghc7102" }:
+    let
+      inherit (nixpkgs) pkgs;
+      ghc = pkgs.haskell.packages.${compiler}.ghcWithPackages (ps: with ps; [
+              monad-par mtl
+            ]);
+    in
+    pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
+      name = "my-haskell-env-0";
+      buildInputs = [ ghc ];
+      shellHook = "eval $(egrep ^export ${ghc}/bin/ghc)";
+    }
+
+Now run `nix-shell` --- or even `nix-shell --pure` --- to enter a shell
+environment that has the appropriate compiler in `$PATH`. If you use `--pure`,
+then add all other packages that your development environment needs into the
+`buildInputs` attribute. If you'd like to switch to a different compiler
+version, then pass an appropriate `compiler` argument to the expression, i.e.
+`nix-shell --argstr compiler ghc784`.
+
+If you need such an environment because you'd like to compile a Hackage package
+outside of Nix --- i.e. because you're hacking on the latest version from Git
+---, then the package set provides suitable nix-shell environments for you
+already! Every Haskell package has an `env` attribute that provides a shell
+environment suitable for compiling that particular package. If you'd like to
+hack the `lens` library, for example, then you just have to check out the
+source code and enter the appropriate environment:
+
+      $ cabal get lens-4.11 && cd lens-4.11
+      Downloading lens-4.11...
+      Unpacking to lens-4.11/
+
+      $ nix-shell "<nixpkgs>" -A haskellPackages.lens.env
+      [nix-shell:/tmp/lens-4.11]$
+
+At point, you can run `cabal configure`, `cabal build`, and all the other
+development commands. Note that you need `cabal-install` installed in your
+`$PATH` already to use it here --- the `nix-shell` environment does not provide
+it.
+
+## How to create Nix builds for your own private Haskell packages
+
+If your own Haskell packages have build instructions for Cabal, then you can
+convert those automatically into build instructions for Nix using the
+`cabal2nix` utility, which you can install into your profile by running
+`nix-env -i cabal2nix`.
+
+### How to build a stand-alone project
+
+For example, let's assume that you're working on a private project called
+`foo`. To generate a Nix build expression for it, change into the project's
+top-level directory and run the command:
+
+    $ cabal2nix . >foo.nix
+
+Then write the following snippet into a file called `default.nix`:
+
+    { nixpkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {}, compiler ? "ghc7102" }:
+    nixpkgs.pkgs.haskell.packages.${compiler}.callPackage ./foo.nix { }
+
+Finally, store the following code in a file called `shell.nix`:
+
+    { nixpkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {}, compiler ? "ghc7102" }:
+    (import ./default.nix { inherit nixpkgs compiler; }).env
+
+At this point, you can run `nix-build` to have Nix compile your project and
+install it into a Nix store path. The local directory will contain a symlink
+called `result` after `nix-build` returns that points into that location. Of
+course, passing the flag `--argstr compiler ghc763` allows switching the build
+to any version of GHC currently supported.
+
+Furthermore, you can call `nix-shell` to enter an interactive development
+environment in which you can use `cabal configure` and `cabal build` to develop
+your code. That environment will automatically contain a proper GHC derivation
+with all the required libraries registered as well as all the system-level
+libraries your package might need.
+
+If your package does not depend on any system-level libraries, then it's
+sufficient to run
+
+    $ nix-shell --command "cabal configure"
+
+once to set up your build. `cabal-install` determines the absolute paths to all
+resources required for the build and writes them into a config file in the
+`dist/` directory. Once that's done, you can run `cabal build` and any other
+command for that project even outside of the `nix-shell` environment. This
+feature is particularly nice for those of us who like to edit their code with
+an IDE, like Emacs' `haskell-mode`, because it's not necessary to start Emacs
+inside of nix-shell just to make it find out the necessary settings for
+building the project; `cabal-install` has already done that for us.
+
+If you want to do some quick-and-dirty hacking and don't want to bother setting
+up a `default.nix` and `shell.nix` file manually, then you can use the
+`--shell` flag offered by `cabal2nix` to have it generate a stand-alone
+`nix-shell` environment for you. With that feature, running
+
+    $ cabal2nix --shell . >shell.nix
+    $ nix-shell --command "cabal configure"
+
+is usually enough to set up a build environment for any given Haskell package.
+You can even use that generated file to run `nix-build`, too:
+
+    $ nix-build shell.nix
+
+### How to build projects that depend on each other
+
+If you have multiple private Haskell packages that depend on each other, then
+you'll have to register those packages in the Nixpkgs set to make them visible
+for the dependency resolution performed by `callPackage`. First of all, change
+into each of your projects top-level directories and generate a `default.nix`
+file with `cabal2nix`:
+
+    $ cd ~/src/foo && cabal2nix . >default.nix
+    $ cd ~/src/bar && cabal2nix . >default.nix
+
+Then edit your `~/.nixpkgs/config.nix` file to register those builds in the
+default Haskell package set:
+
+      {
+        packageOverrides = super: let self = super.pkgs; in
+        {
+          haskellPackages = super.haskellPackages.override {
+            overrides = self: super: {
+              foo = self.callPackage ../src/foo {};
+              bar = self.callPackage ../src/bar {};
+            };
+          };
+        };
+      }
+
+Once that's accomplished, `nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -qA haskellPackages` will
+show your packages like any other package from Hackage, and you can build them
+
+    $ nix-build "<nixpkgs>" -A haskellPackages.foo
+
+or enter an interactive shell environment suitable for building them:
+
+    $ nix-shell "<nixpkgs>" -A haskellPackages.bar.env
+
+## Miscellaneous Topics
+
+### How to build with profiling enabled
+
+Every Haskell package set takes a function called `overrides` that you can use
+to manipulate the package as much as you please. One useful application of this
+feature is to replace the default `mkDerivation` function with one that enables
+library profiling for all packages. To accomplish that, add configure the
+following snippet in your `~/.nixpkgs/config.nix` file:
+
+    {
+      packageOverrides = super: let self = super.pkgs; in
+      {
+        profiledHaskellPackages = self.haskellPackages.override {
+          overrides = self: super: {
+            mkDerivation = args: super.mkDerivation (args // {
+              enableLibraryProfiling = true;
+            });
+          };
+        };
+      };
+    }
+
+Then, replace instances of `haskellPackages` in the `cabal2nix`-generated
+`default.nix` or `shell.nix` files with `profiledHaskellPackages`.
+
+### How to override package versions in a compiler-specific package set
+
+Nixpkgs provides the latest version of
+[`ghc-events`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-events), which is 0.4.4.0
+at the time of this writing. This is fine for users of GHC 7.10.x, but GHC
+7.8.4 cannot compile that binary. Now, one way to solve that problem is to
+register an older version of `ghc-events` in the 7.8.x-specific package set.
+The first step is to generate Nix build instructions with `cabal2nix`:
+
+    $ cabal2nix cabal://ghc-events-0.4.3.0 >~/.nixpkgs/ghc-events-0.4.3.0.nix
+
+Then add the override in `~/.nixpkgs/config.nix`:
+
+    {
+      packageOverrides = super: let self = super.pkgs; in
+      {
+        haskell = super.haskell // {
+          packages = super.haskell.packages // {
+            ghc784 = super.haskell.packages.ghc784.override {
+              overrides = self: super: {
+                ghc-events = self.callPackage ./ghc-events-0.4.3.0.nix {};
+              };
+            };
+          };
+        };
+      };
+    }
+
+This code is a little crazy, no doubt, but it's necessary because the intuitive
+version
+
+    haskell.packages.ghc784 = super.haskell.packages.ghc784.override {
+      overrides = self: super: {
+        ghc-events = self.callPackage ./ghc-events-0.4.3.0.nix {};
+      };
+    };
+
+doesn't do what we want it to: that code replaces the `haskell` package set in
+Nixpkgs with one that contains only one entry,`packages`, which contains only
+one entry `ghc784`. This override loses the `haskell.compiler` set, and it
+loses the `haskell.packages.ghcXYZ` sets for all compilers but GHC 7.8.4. To
+avoid that problem, we have to perform the convoluted little dance from above,
+iterating over each step in hierarchy.
+
+Once it's accomplished, however, we can install a variant of `ghc-events`
+that's compiled with GHC 7.8.4:
+
+    nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -iA haskell.packages.ghc784.ghc-events
+
+Unfortunately, it turns out that this build fails again while executing the
+test suite! Apparently, the release archive on Hackage is missing some data
+files that the test suite requires, so we cannot run it. We accomplish that by
+re-generating the Nix expression with the `--no-check` flag:
+
+    $ cabal2nix --no-check cabal://ghc-events-0.4.3.0 >~/.nixpkgs/ghc-events-0.4.3.0.nix
+
+Now the builds succeeds.
+
+Of course, in the concrete example of `ghc-events` this whole exercise is not
+an ideal solution, because `ghc-events` can analyze the output emitted by any
+version of GHC later than 6.12 regardless of the compiler version that was used
+to build the `ghc-events' executable, so strictly speaking there's no reason to
+prefer one built with GHC 7.8.x in the first place. However, for users who
+cannot use GHC 7.10.x at all for some reason, the approach of downgrading to an
+older version might be useful.
+
+### How to recover from GHC's infamous non-deterministic library ID bug
+
+GHC and distributed build farms don't get along well:
+
+    https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4012
+
+When you see an error like this one
+
+    package foo-0.7.1.0 is broken due to missing package
+    text-1.2.0.4-98506efb1b9ada233bb5c2b2db516d91
+
+then you have to download and re-install `foo` and all its dependents from
+scratch:
+
+    # nix-store -q --referrers /nix/store/*-haskell-text-1.2.0.4 \
+      | xargs -L 1 nix-store --repair-path
+
+If you're using additional Hydra servers other than `hydra.nixos.org`, then it
+might be necessary to purge the local caches that store data from those
+machines to disable these binary channels for the duration of the previous
+command, i.e. by running:
+
+    rm /nix/var/nix/binary-cache-v3.sqlite
+    rm /nix/var/nix/manifests/*
+    rm /nix/var/nix/channel-cache/*
+
+### How to use the Haste Haskell-to-Javascript transpiler
+
+Open a shell with `haste-compiler` and `haste-cabal-install` (you don't actually need
+`node`, but it can be useful to test stuff):
+
+    $ nix-shell -p "haskellPackages.ghcWithPackages (self: with self; [haste-cabal-install haste-compiler])" -p nodejs
+
+You may not need the following step but if `haste-boot` fails to compile all the
+packages it needs, this might do the trick
+
+    $ haste-cabal update
+
+`haste-boot` builds a set of core libraries so that they can be used from Javascript
+transpiled programs:
+
+    $ haste-boot
+
+Transpile and run a "Hello world" program:
+
+    $ echo 'module Main where main = putStrLn "Hello world"' > hello-world.hs
+    $ hastec --onexec hello-world.hs
+    $ node hello-world.js
+    Hello world
+
+### Builds on Darwin fail with `math.h` not found
+
+Users of GHC on Darwin have occasionally reported that builds fail, because the
+compiler complains about a missing include file:
+
+    fatal error: 'math.h' file not found
+
+The issue has been discussed at length in [ticket
+6390](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/6390), and so far no good
+solution has been proposed. As a work-around, users who run into this problem
+can configure the environment variables
+
+    export NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE="-idirafter /usr/include"
+    export NIX_CFLAGS_LINK="-L/usr/lib"
+
+in their `~/.bashrc` file to avoid the compiler error.
+
+### Builds using Stack complain about missing system libraries
+
+    --  While building package zlib-0.5.4.2 using:
+      runhaskell -package=Cabal-1.22.4.0 -clear-package-db [... lots of flags ...]
+    Process exited with code: ExitFailure 1
+    Logs have been written to: /home/foo/src/stack-ide/.stack-work/logs/zlib-0.5.4.2.log
+
+    Configuring zlib-0.5.4.2...
+    Setup.hs: Missing dependency on a foreign library:
+    * Missing (or bad) header file: zlib.h
+    This problem can usually be solved by installing the system package that
+    provides this library (you may need the "-dev" version). If the library is
+    already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the flags
+    --extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where it is.
+    If the header file does exist, it may contain errors that are caught by the C
+    compiler at the preprocessing stage. In this case you can re-run configure
+    with the verbosity flag -v3 to see the error messages.
+
+When you run the build inside of the nix-shell environment, the system
+is configured to find libz.so without any special flags -- the compiler
+and linker "just know" how to find it. Consequently, Cabal won't record
+any search paths for libz.so in the package description, which means
+that the package works fine inside of nix-shell, but once you leave the
+shell the shared object can no longer be found. That issue is by no
+means specific to Stack: you'll have that problem with any other
+Haskell package that's built inside of nix-shell but run outside of that
+environment.
+
+You can remedy this issue in several ways. The easiest is to add a `nix` section
+to the `stack.yaml` like the following:
+
+    nix:
+      enable: true
+	  packages: [ zlib ]
+
+Stack's Nix support knows to add `${zlib.out}/lib` and `${zlib.dev}/include` as an
+`--extra-lib-dirs` and `extra-include-dirs`, respectively. Alternatively, you
+can achieve the same effect by hand. First of all, run
+
+    $ nix-build --no-out-link "<nixpkgs>" -A zlib
+    /nix/store/alsvwzkiw4b7ip38l4nlfjijdvg3fvzn-zlib-1.2.8
+
+to find out the store path of the system's zlib library. Now, you can
+
+1) add that path (plus a "/lib" suffix) to your $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+   environment variable to make sure your system linker finds libz.so
+   automatically. It's no pretty solution, but it will work.
+
+2) As a variant of (1), you can also install any number of system
+   libraries into your user's profile (or some other profile) and point
+   $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to that profile instead, so that you don't have to
+   list dozens of those store paths all over the place.
+
+3) The solution I prefer is to call stack with an appropriate
+   --extra-lib-dirs flag like so:
+
+    $ stack --extra-lib-dirs=/nix/store/alsvwzkiw4b7ip38l4nlfjijdvg3fvzn-zlib-1.2.8/lib build
+
+   Typically, you'll need --extra-include-dirs as well. It's possible
+   to add those flag to the project's "stack.yaml" or your user's
+   global "~/.stack/global/stack.yaml" file so that you don't have to
+   specify them manually every time. But again, you're likely better off using
+   Stack's Nix support instead.
+
+   The same thing applies to `cabal configure`, of course, if you're
+   building with `cabal-install` instead of Stack.
+
+### Creating statically linked binaries
+
+There are two levels of static linking. The first option is to configure the
+build with the Cabal flag `--disable-executable-dynamic`. In Nix expressions,
+this can be achieved by setting the attribute:
+
+    enableSharedExecutables = false;
+
+That gives you a binary with statically linked Haskell libraries and
+dynamically linked system libraries.
+
+To link both Haskell libraries and system libraries statically, the additional
+flags `--ghc-option=-optl=-static --ghc-option=-optl=-pthread` need to be used.
+In Nix, this is accomplished with:
+
+    configureFlags = [ "--ghc-option=-optl=-static" "--ghc-option=-optl=-pthread" ];
+
+It's important to realize, however, that most system libraries in Nix are built
+as shared libraries only, i.e. there is just no static library available that
+Cabal could link!
+
+
+## Other resources
+
+- The Youtube video [Nix Loves Haskell](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsBhi_r-OeE)
+  provides an introduction into Haskell NG aimed at beginners. The slides are
+  available at http://cryp.to/nixos-meetup-3-slides.pdf and also -- in a form
+  ready for cut & paste -- at
+  https://github.com/NixOS/cabal2nix/blob/master/doc/nixos-meetup-3-slides.md.
+
+- Another Youtube video is [Escaping Cabal Hell with Nix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQd3s57n_2Y),
+  which discusses the subject of Haskell development with Nix but also provides
+  a basic introduction to Nix as well, i.e. it's suitable for viewers with
+  almost no prior Nix experience.
+
+- Oliver Charles wrote a very nice [Tutorial how to develop Haskell packages with Nix](http://wiki.ocharles.org.uk/Nix).
+
+- The *Journey into the Haskell NG infrastructure* series of postings
+  describe the new Haskell infrastructure in great detail:
+
+    - [Part 1](http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2015-January/015591.html)
+      explains the differences between the old and the new code and gives
+      instructions how to migrate to the new setup.
+
+    - [Part 2](http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2015-January/015608.html)
+      looks in-depth at how to tweak and configure your setup by means of
+      overrides.
+
+    - [Part 3](http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2015-April/016912.html)
+      describes the infrastructure that keeps the Haskell package set in Nixpkgs
+      up-to-date.

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@@ -1,955 +0,0 @@
----
-title: User's Guide for Haskell in Nixpkgs
-author: Peter Simons
-date: 2015-06-01
----
-# User's Guide to the Haskell Infrastructure
-
-
-## How to install Haskell packages
-
-Nixpkgs distributes build instructions for all Haskell packages registered on
-[Hackage](http://hackage.haskell.org/), but strangely enough normal Nix package
-lookups don't seem to discover any of them, except for the default version of ghc, cabal-install, and stack:
-```
-$ nix-env -i alex
-error: selector ‘alex’ matches no derivations
-$ nix-env -qa ghc
-ghc-7.10.2
-```
-
-The Haskell package set is not registered in the top-level namespace because it
-is *huge*. If all Haskell packages were visible to these commands, then
-name-based search/install operations would be much slower than they are now. We
-avoided that by keeping all Haskell-related packages in a separate attribute
-set called `haskellPackages`, which the following command will list:
-```
-$ nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -qaP -A haskellPackages
-haskellPackages.a50         a50-0.5
-haskellPackages.abacate     haskell-abacate-0.0.0.0
-haskellPackages.abcBridge   haskell-abcBridge-0.12
-haskellPackages.afv         afv-0.1.1
-haskellPackages.alex        alex-3.1.4
-haskellPackages.Allure      Allure-0.4.101.1
-haskellPackages.alms        alms-0.6.7
-[... some 8000 entries omitted  ...]
-```
-
-To install any of those packages into your profile, refer to them by their
-attribute path (first column):
-```shell
-nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -iA haskellPackages.Allure ...
-```
-
-The attribute path of any Haskell packages corresponds to the name of that
-particular package on Hackage: the package `cabal-install` has the attribute
-`haskellPackages.cabal-install`, and so on. (Actually, this convention causes
-trouble with packages like `3dmodels` and `4Blocks`, because these names are
-invalid identifiers in the Nix language. The issue of how to deal with these
-rare corner cases is currently unresolved.)
-
-Haskell packages whose Nix name (second column) begins with a `haskell-` prefix
-are packages that provide a library whereas packages without that prefix
-provide just executables. Libraries may provide executables too, though: the
-package `haskell-pandoc`, for example, installs both a library and an
-application. You can install and use Haskell executables just like any other
-program in Nixpkgs, but using Haskell libraries for development is a bit
-trickier and we'll address that subject in great detail in section [How to
-create a development environment].
-
-Attribute paths are deterministic inside of Nixpkgs, but the path necessary to
-reach Nixpkgs varies from system to system. We dodged that problem by giving
-`nix-env` an explicit `-f "<nixpkgs>"` parameter, but if you call `nix-env`
-without that flag, then chances are the invocation fails:
-```
-$ nix-env -iA haskellPackages.cabal-install
-error: attribute ‘haskellPackages’ in selection path
-       ‘haskellPackages.cabal-install’ not found
-```
-
-On NixOS, for example, Nixpkgs does *not* exist in the top-level namespace by
-default. To figure out the proper attribute path, it's easiest to query for the
-path of a well-known Nixpkgs package, i.e.:
-```
-$ nix-env -qaP coreutils
-nixos.coreutils  coreutils-8.23
-```
-
-If your system responds like that (most NixOS installations will), then the
-attribute path to `haskellPackages` is `nixos.haskellPackages`. Thus, if you
-want to use `nix-env` without giving an explicit `-f` flag, then that's the way
-to do it:
-```shell
-nix-env -qaP -A nixos.haskellPackages
-nix-env -iA nixos.haskellPackages.cabal-install
-```
-
-Our current default compiler is GHC 7.10.x and the `haskellPackages` set
-contains packages built with that particular version. Nixpkgs contains the
-latest major release of every GHC since 6.10.4, however, and there is a whole
-family of package sets available that defines Hackage packages built with each
-of those compilers, too:
-```shell
-nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -qaP -A haskell.packages.ghc6123
-nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -qaP -A haskell.packages.ghc763
-```
-
-The name `haskellPackages` is really just a synonym for
-`haskell.packages.ghc7102`, because we prefer that package set internally and
-recommend it to our users as their default choice, but ultimately you are free
-to compile your Haskell packages with any GHC version you please. The following
-command displays the complete list of available compilers:
-```
-$ nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -qaP -A haskell.compiler
-haskell.compiler.ghc6104        ghc-6.10.4
-haskell.compiler.ghc6123        ghc-6.12.3
-haskell.compiler.ghc704         ghc-7.0.4
-haskell.compiler.ghc722         ghc-7.2.2
-haskell.compiler.ghc742         ghc-7.4.2
-haskell.compiler.ghc763         ghc-7.6.3
-haskell.compiler.ghc784         ghc-7.8.4
-haskell.compiler.ghc7102        ghc-7.10.2
-haskell.compiler.ghcHEAD        ghc-7.11.20150402
-haskell.compiler.ghcNokinds     ghc-nokinds-7.11.20150704
-haskell.compiler.ghcjs          ghcjs-0.1.0
-haskell.compiler.jhc            jhc-0.8.2
-haskell.compiler.uhc            uhc-1.1.9.0
-```
-
-We have no package sets for `jhc` or `uhc` yet, unfortunately, but for every
-version of GHC listed above, there exists a package set based on that compiler.
-Also, the attributes `haskell.compiler.ghcXYC` and
-`haskell.packages.ghcXYC.ghc` are synonymous for the sake of convenience.
-
-## How to create a development environment
-
-### How to install a compiler
-
-A simple development environment consists of a Haskell compiler and one or both
-of the tools `cabal-install` and `stack`. We saw in section
-[How to install Haskell packages] how you can install those programs into your
-user profile:
-```shell
-nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -iA haskellPackages.ghc haskellPackages.cabal-install
-```
-
-Instead of the default package set `haskellPackages`, you can also use the more
-precise name `haskell.compiler.ghc7102`, which has the advantage that it refers
-to the same GHC version regardless of what Nixpkgs considers "default" at any
-given time.
-
-Once you've made those tools available in `$PATH`, it's possible to build
-Hackage packages the same way people without access to Nix do it all the time:
-```shell
-cabal get lens-4.11 && cd lens-4.11
-cabal install -j --dependencies-only
-cabal configure
-cabal build
-```
-
-If you enjoy working with Cabal sandboxes, then that's entirely possible too:
-just execute the command
-```shell
-cabal sandbox init
-```
-before installing the required dependencies.
-
-The `nix-shell` utility makes it easy to switch to a different compiler
-version; just enter the Nix shell environment with the command
-```shell
-nix-shell -p haskell.compiler.ghc784
-```
-to bring GHC 7.8.4 into `$PATH`. Alternatively, you can use Stack instead of
-`nix-shell` directly to select compiler versions and other build tools
-per-project. It uses `nix-shell` under the hood when Nix support is turned on.
-See [How to build a Haskell project using Stack].
-
-If you're using `cabal-install`, re-running `cabal configure` inside the spawned
-shell switches your build to use that compiler instead. If you're working on
-a project that doesn't depend on any additional system libraries outside of GHC,
-then it's even sufficient to just run the `cabal configure` command inside of
-the shell:
-```shell
-nix-shell -p haskell.compiler.ghc784 --command "cabal configure"
-```
-
-Afterwards, all other commands like `cabal build` work just fine in any shell
-environment, because the configure phase recorded the absolute paths to all
-required tools like GHC in its build configuration inside of the `dist/`
-directory. Please note, however, that `nix-collect-garbage` can break such an
-environment because the Nix store paths created by `nix-shell` aren't "alive"
-anymore once `nix-shell` has terminated. If you find that your Haskell builds
-no longer work after garbage collection, then you'll have to re-run `cabal
-configure` inside of a new `nix-shell` environment.
-
-### How to install a compiler with libraries
-
-GHC expects to find all installed libraries inside of its own `lib` directory.
-This approach works fine on traditional Unix systems, but it doesn't work for
-Nix, because GHC's store path is immutable once it's built. We cannot install
-additional libraries into that location. As a consequence, our copies of GHC
-don't know any packages except their own core libraries, like `base`,
-`containers`, `Cabal`, etc.
-
-We can register additional libraries to GHC, however, using a special build
-function called `ghcWithPackages`. That function expects one argument: a
-function that maps from an attribute set of Haskell packages to a list of
-packages, which determines the libraries known to that particular version of
-GHC. For example, the Nix expression `ghcWithPackages (pkgs: [pkgs.mtl])`
-generates a copy of GHC that has the `mtl` library registered in addition to
-its normal core packages:
-```
-$ nix-shell -p "haskellPackages.ghcWithPackages (pkgs: [pkgs.mtl])"
-
-[nix-shell:~]$ ghc-pkg list mtl
-/nix/store/zy79...-ghc-7.10.2/lib/ghc-7.10.2/package.conf.d:
-    mtl-2.2.1
-```
-
-This function allows users to define their own development environment by means
-of an override. After adding the following snippet to `~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix`,
-```nix
-{
-  packageOverrides = super: let self = super.pkgs; in
-  {
-    myHaskellEnv = self.haskell.packages.ghc7102.ghcWithPackages
-                     (haskellPackages: with haskellPackages; [
-                       # libraries
-                       arrows async cgi criterion
-                       # tools
-                       cabal-install haskintex
-                     ]);
-  };
-}
-```
-it's possible to install that compiler with `nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -iA
-myHaskellEnv`. If you'd like to switch that development environment to a
-different version of GHC, just replace the `ghc7102` bit in the previous
-definition with the appropriate name. Of course, it's also possible to define
-any number of these development environments! (You can't install two of them
-into the same profile at the same time, though, because that would result in
-file conflicts.)
-
-The generated `ghc` program is a wrapper script that re-directs the real
-GHC executable to use a new `lib` directory --- one that we specifically
-constructed to contain all those packages the user requested:
-```
-$ cat $(type -p ghc)
-#! /nix/store/xlxj...-bash-4.3-p33/bin/bash -e
-export NIX_GHC=/nix/store/19sm...-ghc-7.10.2/bin/ghc
-export NIX_GHCPKG=/nix/store/19sm...-ghc-7.10.2/bin/ghc-pkg
-export NIX_GHC_DOCDIR=/nix/store/19sm...-ghc-7.10.2/share/doc/ghc/html
-export NIX_GHC_LIBDIR=/nix/store/19sm...-ghc-7.10.2/lib/ghc-7.10.2
-exec /nix/store/j50p...-ghc-7.10.2/bin/ghc "-B$NIX_GHC_LIBDIR" "$@"
-```
-
-The variables `$NIX_GHC`, `$NIX_GHCPKG`, etc. point to the *new* store path
-`ghcWithPackages` constructed specifically for this environment. The last line
-of the wrapper script then executes the real `ghc`, but passes the path to the
-new `lib` directory using GHC's `-B` flag.
-
-The purpose of those environment variables is to work around an impurity in the
-popular [ghc-paths](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-paths) library. That
-library promises to give its users access to GHC's installation paths. Only,
-the library can't possible know that path when it's compiled, because the path
-GHC considers its own is determined only much later, when the user configures
-it through `ghcWithPackages`. So we [patched
-ghc-paths](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/patches/ghc-paths-nix.patch)
-to return the paths found in those environment variables at run-time rather
-than trying to guess them at compile-time.
-
-To make sure that mechanism works properly all the time, we recommend that you
-set those variables to meaningful values in your shell environment, too, i.e.
-by adding the following code to your `~/.bashrc`:
-```bash
-if type >/dev/null 2>&1 -p ghc; then
-  eval "$(egrep ^export "$(type -p ghc)")"
-fi
-```
-
-If you are certain that you'll use only one GHC environment which is located in
-your user profile, then you can use the following code, too, which has the
-advantage that it doesn't contain any paths from the Nix store, i.e. those
-settings always remain valid even if a `nix-env -u` operation updates the GHC
-environment in your profile:
-```bash
-if [ -e ~/.nix-profile/bin/ghc ]; then
-  export NIX_GHC="$HOME/.nix-profile/bin/ghc"
-  export NIX_GHCPKG="$HOME/.nix-profile/bin/ghc-pkg"
-  export NIX_GHC_DOCDIR="$HOME/.nix-profile/share/doc/ghc/html"
-  export NIX_GHC_LIBDIR="$HOME/.nix-profile/lib/ghc-$($NIX_GHC --numeric-version)"
-fi
-```
-
-### How to install a compiler with libraries, hoogle and documentation indexes
-
-If you plan to use your environment for interactive programming, not just
-compiling random Haskell code, you might want to replace `ghcWithPackages` in
-all the listings above with `ghcWithHoogle`.
-
-This environment generator not only produces an environment with GHC and all
-the specified libraries, but also generates a `hoogle` and `haddock` indexes
-for all the packages, and provides a wrapper script around `hoogle` binary that
-uses all those things. A precise name for this thing would be
-"`ghcWithPackagesAndHoogleAndDocumentationIndexes`", which is, regrettably, too
-long and scary.
-
-For example, installing the following environment
-```nix
-{
-  packageOverrides = super: let self = super.pkgs; in
-  {
-    myHaskellEnv = self.haskellPackages.ghcWithHoogle
-                     (haskellPackages: with haskellPackages; [
-                       # libraries
-                       arrows async cgi criterion
-                       # tools
-                       cabal-install haskintex
-                     ]);
-  };
-}
-```
-allows one to browse module documentation index [not too dissimilar to
-this](https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/libraries/index.html)
-for all the specified packages and their dependencies by directing a browser of
-choice to `~/.nix-profiles/share/doc/hoogle/index.html` (or
-`/run/current-system/sw/share/doc/hoogle/index.html` in case you put it in
-`environment.systemPackages` in NixOS).
-
-After you've marveled enough at that try adding the following to your
-`~/.ghc/ghci.conf`
-```
-:def hoogle \s -> return $ ":! hoogle search -cl --count=15 \"" ++ s ++ "\""
-:def doc \s -> return $ ":! hoogle search -cl --info \"" ++ s ++ "\""
-```
-and test it by typing into `ghci`:
-```
-:hoogle a -> a
-:doc a -> a
-```
-
-Be sure to note the links to `haddock` files in the output. With any modern and
-properly configured terminal emulator you can just click those links to
-navigate there.
-
-Finally, you can run
-```shell
-hoogle server -p 8080 --local
-```
-and navigate to http://localhost:8080/ for your own local
-[Hoogle](https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/).
-
-### How to build a Haskell project using Stack
-
-[Stack](http://haskellstack.org) is a popular build tool for Haskell projects.
-It has first-class support for Nix. Stack can optionally use Nix to
-automatically select the right version of GHC and other build tools to build,
-test and execute apps in an existing project downloaded from somewhere on the
-Internet. Pass the `--nix` flag to any `stack` command to do so, e.g.
-```shell
-git clone --recursive http://github.com/yesodweb/wai
-cd wai
-stack --nix build
-```
-
-If you want `stack` to use Nix by default, you can add a `nix` section to the
-`stack.yaml` file, as explained in the [Stack documentation][stack-nix-doc]. For
-example:
-```yaml
-nix:
-  enable: true
-  packages: [pkgconfig zeromq zlib]
-```
-
-The example configuration snippet above tells Stack to create an ad hoc
-environment for `nix-shell` as in the below section, in which the `pkgconfig`,
-`zeromq` and `zlib` packages from Nixpkgs are available. All `stack` commands
-will implicitly be executed inside this ad hoc environment.
-
-Some projects have more sophisticated needs. For examples, some ad hoc
-environments might need to expose Nixpkgs packages compiled in a certain way, or
-with extra environment variables. In these cases, you'll need a `shell` field
-instead of `packages`:
-```yaml
-nix:
-  enable: true
-  shell-file: shell.nix
-```
-
-For more on how to write a `shell.nix` file see the below section. You'll need
-to express a derivation. Note that Nixpkgs ships with a convenience wrapper
-function around `mkDerivation` called `haskell.lib.buildStackProject` to help you
-create this derivation in exactly the way Stack expects. All of the same inputs
-as `mkDerivation` can be provided. For example, to build a Stack project that
-including packages that link against a version of the R library compiled with
-special options turned on:
-```nix
-with (import <nixpkgs> { });
-
-let R = pkgs.R.override { enableStrictBarrier = true; };
-in
-haskell.lib.buildStackProject {
-  name = "HaskellR";
-  buildInputs = [ R zeromq zlib ];
-}
-```
-
-You can select a particular GHC version to compile with by setting the
-`ghc` attribute as an argument to `buildStackProject`. Better yet, let
-Stack choose what GHC version it wants based on the snapshot specified
-in `stack.yaml` (only works with Stack >= 1.1.3):
-```nix
-{nixpkgs ? import <nixpkgs> { }, ghc ? nixpkgs.ghc}:
-
-with nixpkgs;
-
-let R = pkgs.R.override { enableStrictBarrier = true; };
-in
-haskell.lib.buildStackProject {
-  name = "HaskellR";
-  buildInputs = [ R zeromq zlib ];
-  inherit ghc;
-}
-```
-
-[stack-nix-doc]: http://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/nix_integration.html
-
-### How to create ad hoc environments for `nix-shell`
-
-The easiest way to create an ad hoc development environment is to run
-`nix-shell` with the appropriate GHC environment given on the command-line:
-```shell
-nix-shell -p "haskellPackages.ghcWithPackages (pkgs: with pkgs; [mtl pandoc])"
-```
-
-For more sophisticated use-cases, however, it's more convenient to save the
-desired configuration in a file called `shell.nix` that looks like this:
-```nix
-{ nixpkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {}, compiler ? "ghc7102" }:
-let
-  inherit (nixpkgs) pkgs;
-  ghc = pkgs.haskell.packages.${compiler}.ghcWithPackages (ps: with ps; [
-          monad-par mtl
-        ]);
-in
-pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "my-haskell-env-0";
-  buildInputs = [ ghc ];
-  shellHook = "eval $(egrep ^export ${ghc}/bin/ghc)";
-}
-```
-
-Now run `nix-shell` --- or even `nix-shell --pure` --- to enter a shell
-environment that has the appropriate compiler in `$PATH`. If you use `--pure`,
-then add all other packages that your development environment needs into the
-`buildInputs` attribute. If you'd like to switch to a different compiler
-version, then pass an appropriate `compiler` argument to the expression, i.e.
-`nix-shell --argstr compiler ghc784`.
-
-If you need such an environment because you'd like to compile a Hackage package
-outside of Nix --- i.e. because you're hacking on the latest version from Git
----, then the package set provides suitable nix-shell environments for you
-already! Every Haskell package has an `env` attribute that provides a shell
-environment suitable for compiling that particular package. If you'd like to
-hack the `lens` library, for example, then you just have to check out the
-source code and enter the appropriate environment:
-```
-$ cabal get lens-4.11 && cd lens-4.11
-Downloading lens-4.11...
-Unpacking to lens-4.11/
-
-$ nix-shell "<nixpkgs>" -A haskellPackages.lens.env
-[nix-shell:/tmp/lens-4.11]$
-```
-
-At point, you can run `cabal configure`, `cabal build`, and all the other
-development commands. Note that you need `cabal-install` installed in your
-`$PATH` already to use it here --- the `nix-shell` environment does not provide
-it.
-
-## How to create Nix builds for your own private Haskell packages
-
-If your own Haskell packages have build instructions for Cabal, then you can
-convert those automatically into build instructions for Nix using the
-`cabal2nix` utility, which you can install into your profile by running
-`nix-env -i cabal2nix`.
-
-### How to build a stand-alone project
-
-For example, let's assume that you're working on a private project called
-`foo`. To generate a Nix build expression for it, change into the project's
-top-level directory and run the command:
-```shell
-cabal2nix . > foo.nix
-```
-Then write the following snippet into a file called `default.nix`:
-```nix
-{ nixpkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {}, compiler ? "ghc7102" }:
-nixpkgs.pkgs.haskell.packages.${compiler}.callPackage ./foo.nix { }
-```
-
-Finally, store the following code in a file called `shell.nix`:
-```nix
-{ nixpkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {}, compiler ? "ghc7102" }:
-(import ./default.nix { inherit nixpkgs compiler; }).env
-```
-
-At this point, you can run `nix-build` to have Nix compile your project and
-install it into a Nix store path. The local directory will contain a symlink
-called `result` after `nix-build` returns that points into that location. Of
-course, passing the flag `--argstr compiler ghc763` allows switching the build
-to any version of GHC currently supported.
-
-Furthermore, you can call `nix-shell` to enter an interactive development
-environment in which you can use `cabal configure` and `cabal build` to develop
-your code. That environment will automatically contain a proper GHC derivation
-with all the required libraries registered as well as all the system-level
-libraries your package might need.
-
-If your package does not depend on any system-level libraries, then it's
-sufficient to run
-```shell
-nix-shell --command "cabal configure"
-```
-once to set up your build. `cabal-install` determines the absolute paths to all
-resources required for the build and writes them into a config file in the
-`dist/` directory. Once that's done, you can run `cabal build` and any other
-command for that project even outside of the `nix-shell` environment. This
-feature is particularly nice for those of us who like to edit their code with
-an IDE, like Emacs' `haskell-mode`, because it's not necessary to start Emacs
-inside of nix-shell just to make it find out the necessary settings for
-building the project; `cabal-install` has already done that for us.
-
-If you want to do some quick-and-dirty hacking and don't want to bother setting
-up a `default.nix` and `shell.nix` file manually, then you can use the
-`--shell` flag offered by `cabal2nix` to have it generate a stand-alone
-`nix-shell` environment for you. With that feature, running
-```shell
-cabal2nix --shell . > shell.nix
-nix-shell --command "cabal configure"
-```
-is usually enough to set up a build environment for any given Haskell package.
-You can even use that generated file to run `nix-build`, too:
-```shell
-nix-build shell.nix
-```
-
-### How to build projects that depend on each other
-
-If you have multiple private Haskell packages that depend on each other, then
-you'll have to register those packages in the Nixpkgs set to make them visible
-for the dependency resolution performed by `callPackage`. First of all, change
-into each of your projects top-level directories and generate a `default.nix`
-file with `cabal2nix`:
-```shell
-cd ~/src/foo && cabal2nix . > default.nix
-cd ~/src/bar && cabal2nix . > default.nix
-```
-Then edit your `~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix` file to register those builds in the
-default Haskell package set:
-```nix
-{
-  packageOverrides = super: let self = super.pkgs; in
-  {
-    haskellPackages = super.haskellPackages.override {
-      overrides = self: super: {
-        foo = self.callPackage ../src/foo {};
-        bar = self.callPackage ../src/bar {};
-      };
-    };
-  };
-}
-```
-Once that's accomplished, `nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -qA haskellPackages` will
-show your packages like any other package from Hackage, and you can build them
-```shell
-nix-build "<nixpkgs>" -A haskellPackages.foo
-```
-or enter an interactive shell environment suitable for building them:
-```shell
-nix-shell "<nixpkgs>" -A haskellPackages.bar.env
-```
-
-## Miscellaneous Topics
-
-### How to build with profiling enabled
-
-Every Haskell package set takes a function called `overrides` that you can use
-to manipulate the package as much as you please. One useful application of this
-feature is to replace the default `mkDerivation` function with one that enables
-library profiling for all packages. To accomplish that add the following
-snippet to your `~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix` file:
-```nix
-{
-  packageOverrides = super: let self = super.pkgs; in
-  {
-    profiledHaskellPackages = self.haskellPackages.override {
-      overrides = self: super: {
-        mkDerivation = args: super.mkDerivation (args // {
-          enableLibraryProfiling = true;
-        });
-      };
-    };
-  };
-}
-```
-Then, replace instances of `haskellPackages` in the `cabal2nix`-generated
-`default.nix` or `shell.nix` files with `profiledHaskellPackages`.
-
-### How to override package versions in a compiler-specific package set
-
-Nixpkgs provides the latest version of
-[`ghc-events`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-events), which is 0.4.4.0
-at the time of this writing. This is fine for users of GHC 7.10.x, but GHC
-7.8.4 cannot compile that binary. Now, one way to solve that problem is to
-register an older version of `ghc-events` in the 7.8.x-specific package set.
-The first step is to generate Nix build instructions with `cabal2nix`:
-```shell
-cabal2nix cabal://ghc-events-0.4.3.0 > ~/.nixpkgs/ghc-events-0.4.3.0.nix
-```
-Then add the override in `~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix`:
-```nix
-{
-  packageOverrides = super: let self = super.pkgs; in
-  {
-    haskell = super.haskell // {
-      packages = super.haskell.packages // {
-        ghc784 = super.haskell.packages.ghc784.override {
-          overrides = self: super: {
-            ghc-events = self.callPackage ./ghc-events-0.4.3.0.nix {};
-          };
-        };
-      };
-    };
-  };
-}
-```
-
-This code is a little crazy, no doubt, but it's necessary because the intuitive
-version
-```nix
-{ # ...
-
-  haskell.packages.ghc784 = super.haskell.packages.ghc784.override {
-    overrides = self: super: {
-      ghc-events = self.callPackage ./ghc-events-0.4.3.0.nix {};
-    };
-  };
-}
-```
-doesn't do what we want it to: that code replaces the `haskell` package set in
-Nixpkgs with one that contains only one entry,`packages`, which contains only
-one entry `ghc784`. This override loses the `haskell.compiler` set, and it
-loses the `haskell.packages.ghcXYZ` sets for all compilers but GHC 7.8.4. To
-avoid that problem, we have to perform the convoluted little dance from above,
-iterating over each step in hierarchy.
-
-Once it's accomplished, however, we can install a variant of `ghc-events`
-that's compiled with GHC 7.8.4:
-```shell
-nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -iA haskell.packages.ghc784.ghc-events
-```
-Unfortunately, it turns out that this build fails again while executing the
-test suite! Apparently, the release archive on Hackage is missing some data
-files that the test suite requires, so we cannot run it. We accomplish that by
-re-generating the Nix expression with the `--no-check` flag:
-```shell
-cabal2nix --no-check cabal://ghc-events-0.4.3.0 > ~/.nixpkgs/ghc-events-0.4.3.0.nix
-```
-Now the builds succeeds.
-
-Of course, in the concrete example of `ghc-events` this whole exercise is not
-an ideal solution, because `ghc-events` can analyze the output emitted by any
-version of GHC later than 6.12 regardless of the compiler version that was used
-to build the `ghc-events` executable, so strictly speaking there's no reason to
-prefer one built with GHC 7.8.x in the first place. However, for users who
-cannot use GHC 7.10.x at all for some reason, the approach of downgrading to an
-older version might be useful.
-
-### How to recover from GHC's infamous non-deterministic library ID bug
-
-GHC and distributed build farms don't get along well:
-
-  - https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4012
-
-When you see an error like this one
-```
-package foo-0.7.1.0 is broken due to missing package
-text-1.2.0.4-98506efb1b9ada233bb5c2b2db516d91
-```
-then you have to download and re-install `foo` and all its dependents from
-scratch:
-```shell
-nix-store -q --referrers /nix/store/*-haskell-text-1.2.0.4 \
-  | xargs -L 1 nix-store --repair-path
-```
-
-If you're using additional Hydra servers other than `hydra.nixos.org`, then it
-might be necessary to purge the local caches that store data from those
-machines to disable these binary channels for the duration of the previous
-command, i.e. by running:
-```shell
-rm /nix/var/nix/binary-cache-v3.sqlite
-rm /nix/var/nix/manifests/*
-rm /nix/var/nix/channel-cache/*
-```
-
-### Builds on Darwin fail with `math.h` not found
-
-Users of GHC on Darwin have occasionally reported that builds fail, because the
-compiler complains about a missing include file:
-```
-fatal error: 'math.h' file not found
-```
-The issue has been discussed at length in [ticket
-6390](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/6390), and so far no good
-solution has been proposed. As a work-around, users who run into this problem
-can configure the environment variables
-```shell
-export NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE="-idirafter /usr/include"
-export NIX_CFLAGS_LINK="-L/usr/lib"
-```
-in their `~/.bashrc` file to avoid the compiler error.
-
-### Builds using Stack complain about missing system libraries
-
-```
---  While building package zlib-0.5.4.2 using:
-  runhaskell -package=Cabal-1.22.4.0 -clear-package-db [... lots of flags ...]
-Process exited with code: ExitFailure 1
-Logs have been written to: /home/foo/src/stack-ide/.stack-work/logs/zlib-0.5.4.2.log
-
-Configuring zlib-0.5.4.2...
-Setup.hs: Missing dependency on a foreign library:
-* Missing (or bad) header file: zlib.h
-This problem can usually be solved by installing the system package that
-provides this library (you may need the "-dev" version). If the library is
-already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the flags
---extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where it is.
-If the header file does exist, it may contain errors that are caught by the C
-compiler at the preprocessing stage. In this case you can re-run configure
-with the verbosity flag -v3 to see the error messages.
-```
-
-When you run the build inside of the nix-shell environment, the system
-is configured to find `libz.so` without any special flags -- the compiler
-and linker "just know" how to find it. Consequently, Cabal won't record
-any search paths for `libz.so` in the package description, which means
-that the package works fine inside of nix-shell, but once you leave the
-shell the shared object can no longer be found. That issue is by no
-means specific to Stack: you'll have that problem with any other
-Haskell package that's built inside of nix-shell but run outside of that
-environment.
-
-You can remedy this issue in several ways. The easiest is to add a `nix` section
-to the `stack.yaml` like the following:
-```yaml
-nix:
-  enable: true
-  packages: [ zlib ]
-```
-
-Stack's Nix support knows to add `${zlib.out}/lib` and `${zlib.dev}/include`
-as an `--extra-lib-dirs` and `extra-include-dirs`, respectively.
-Alternatively, you can achieve the same effect by hand. First of all, run
-```
-$ nix-build --no-out-link "<nixpkgs>" -A zlib
-/nix/store/alsvwzkiw4b7ip38l4nlfjijdvg3fvzn-zlib-1.2.8
-```
-to find out the store path of the system's zlib library. Now, you can
-
-  1. add that path (plus a "/lib" suffix) to your `$LD_LIBRARY_PATH`
-    environment variable to make sure your system linker finds `libz.so`
-    automatically. It's no pretty solution, but it will work.
-
-  2. As a variant of (1), you can also install any number of system
-    libraries into your user's profile (or some other profile) and point
-    `$LD_LIBRARY_PATH` to that profile instead, so that you don't have to
-    list dozens of those store paths all over the place.
-
-  3. The solution I prefer is to call stack with an appropriate
-    --extra-lib-dirs flag like so:
-    ```shell
-    stack --extra-lib-dirs=/nix/store/alsvwzkiw4b7ip38l4nlfjijdvg3fvzn-zlib-1.2.8/lib build
-    ```
-
-Typically, you'll need `--extra-include-dirs` as well. It's possible
-to add those flag to the project's `stack.yaml` or your user's
-global `~/.stack/global/stack.yaml` file so that you don't have to
-specify them manually every time. But again, you're likely better off
-using Stack's Nix support instead.
-
-The same thing applies to `cabal configure`, of course, if you're
-building with `cabal-install` instead of Stack.
-
-### Creating statically linked binaries
-
-There are two levels of static linking. The first option is to configure the
-build with the Cabal flag `--disable-executable-dynamic`. In Nix expressions,
-this can be achieved by setting the attribute:
-```
-enableSharedExecutables = false;
-```
-That gives you a binary with statically linked Haskell libraries and
-dynamically linked system libraries.
-
-To link both Haskell libraries and system libraries statically, the additional
-flags `--ghc-option=-optl=-static --ghc-option=-optl=-pthread` need to be used.
-In Nix, this is accomplished with:
-```
-configureFlags = [ "--ghc-option=-optl=-static" "--ghc-option=-optl=-pthread" ];
-```
-
-It's important to realize, however, that most system libraries in Nix are
-built as shared libraries only, i.e. there is just no static library
-available that Cabal could link!
-
-### Building GHC with integer-simple
-
-By default GHC implements the Integer type using the
-[GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic (GMP) library](https://gmplib.org/).
-The implementation can be found in the
-[integer-gmp](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/integer-gmp) package.
-
-A potential problem with this is that GMP is licensed under the
-[GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)](http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html),
-a kind of "copyleft" license. According to the terms of the LGPL, paragraph 5,
-you may distribute a program that is designed to be compiled and dynamically
-linked with the library under the terms of your choice (i.e., commercially) but
-if your program incorporates portions of the library, if it is linked
-statically, then your program is a "derivative"--a "work based on the
-library"--and according to paragraph 2, section c, you "must cause the whole of
-the work to be licensed" under the terms of the LGPL (including for free).
-
-The LGPL licensing for GMP is a problem for the overall licensing of binary
-programs compiled with GHC because most distributions (and builds) of GHC use
-static libraries. (Dynamic libraries are currently distributed only for macOS.)
-The LGPL licensing situation may be worse: even though
-[The Glasgow Haskell Compiler License](https://www.haskell.org/ghc/license)
-is essentially a "free software" license (BSD3), according to
-paragraph 2 of the LGPL, GHC must be distributed under the terms of the LGPL!
-
-To work around these problems GHC can be build with a slower but LGPL-free
-alternative implemention for Integer called
-[integer-simple](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/integer-simple).
-
-To get a GHC compiler build with `integer-simple` instead of `integer-gmp` use
-the attribute: `haskell.compiler.integer-simple."${ghcVersion}"`.
-For example:
-```
-$ nix-build -E '(import <nixpkgs> {}).haskell.compiler.integer-simple.ghc802'
-...
-$ result/bin/ghc-pkg list | grep integer
-    integer-simple-0.1.1.1
-```
-The following command displays the complete list of GHC compilers build with `integer-simple`:
-```
-$ nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -qaP -A haskell.compiler.integer-simple
-haskell.compiler.integer-simple.ghc7102  ghc-7.10.2
-haskell.compiler.integer-simple.ghc7103  ghc-7.10.3
-haskell.compiler.integer-simple.ghc722   ghc-7.2.2
-haskell.compiler.integer-simple.ghc742   ghc-7.4.2
-haskell.compiler.integer-simple.ghc783   ghc-7.8.3
-haskell.compiler.integer-simple.ghc784   ghc-7.8.4
-haskell.compiler.integer-simple.ghc801   ghc-8.0.1
-haskell.compiler.integer-simple.ghc802   ghc-8.0.2
-haskell.compiler.integer-simple.ghcHEAD  ghc-8.1.20170106
-```
-
-To get a package set supporting `integer-simple` use the attribute:
-`haskell.packages.integer-simple."${ghcVersion}"`. For example
-use the following to get the `scientific` package build with `integer-simple`:
-```shell
-nix-build -A haskell.packages.integer-simple.ghc802.scientific
-```
-
-### Quality assurance
-
-The `haskell.lib` library includes a number of functions for checking for
-various imperfections in Haskell packages. It's useful to apply these functions
-to your own Haskell packages and integrate that in a Continuous Integration
-server like [hydra](https://nixos.org/hydra/) to assure your packages maintain a
-minimum level of quality. This section discusses some of these functions.
-
-#### failOnAllWarnings
-
-Applying `haskell.lib.failOnAllWarnings` to a Haskell package enables the
-`-Wall` and `-Werror` GHC options to turn all warnings into build failures.
-
-#### buildStrictly
-
-Applying `haskell.lib.buildStrictly` to a Haskell package calls
-`failOnAllWarnings` on the given package to turn all warnings into build
-failures. Additionally the source of your package is gotten from first invoking
-`cabal sdist` to ensure all needed files are listed in the Cabal file.
-
-#### checkUnusedPackages
-
-Applying `haskell.lib.checkUnusedPackages` to a Haskell package invokes
-the [packunused](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/packunused) tool on the
-package. `packunused` complains when it finds packages listed as build-depends
-in the Cabal file which are redundant. For example:
-
-```
-$ nix-build -E 'let pkgs = import <nixpkgs> {}; in pkgs.haskell.lib.checkUnusedPackages {} pkgs.haskellPackages.scientific'
-these derivations will be built:
-  /nix/store/3lc51cxj2j57y3zfpq5i69qbzjpvyci1-scientific-0.3.5.1.drv
-...
-detected package components
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- - library
- - testsuite(s): test-scientific
- - benchmark(s): bench-scientific*
-
-(component names suffixed with '*' are not configured to be built)
-
-library
-~~~~~~~
-
-The following package dependencies seem redundant:
-
- - ghc-prim-0.5.0.0
-
-testsuite(test-scientific)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-no redundant packages dependencies found
-
-builder for ‘/nix/store/3lc51cxj2j57y3zfpq5i69qbzjpvyci1-scientific-0.3.5.1.drv’ failed with exit code 1
-error: build of ‘/nix/store/3lc51cxj2j57y3zfpq5i69qbzjpvyci1-scientific-0.3.5.1.drv’ failed
-```
-
-As you can see, `packunused` finds out that although the testsuite component has
-no redundant dependencies the library component of `scientific-0.3.5.1` depends
-on `ghc-prim` which is unused in the library.
-
-## Other resources
-
-  - The Youtube video [Nix Loves Haskell](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsBhi_r-OeE)
-    provides an introduction into Haskell NG aimed at beginners. The slides are
-    available at http://cryp.to/nixos-meetup-3-slides.pdf and also -- in a form
-    ready for cut & paste -- at
-    https://github.com/NixOS/cabal2nix/blob/master/doc/nixos-meetup-3-slides.md.
-
-  - Another Youtube video is [Escaping Cabal Hell with Nix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQd3s57n_2Y),
-    which discusses the subject of Haskell development with Nix but also provides
-    a basic introduction to Nix as well, i.e. it's suitable for viewers with
-    almost no prior Nix experience.
-
-  - Oliver Charles wrote a very nice [Tutorial how to develop Haskell packages with Nix](http://wiki.ocharles.org.uk/Nix).
-
-  - The *Journey into the Haskell NG infrastructure* series of postings
-    describe the new Haskell infrastructure in great detail:
-
-      - [Part 1](https://nixos.org/nix-dev/2015-January/015591.html)
-        explains the differences between the old and the new code and gives
-        instructions how to migrate to the new setup.
-
-      - [Part 2](https://nixos.org/nix-dev/2015-January/015608.html)
-        looks in-depth at how to tweak and configure your setup by means of
-        overrides.
-
-      - [Part 3](https://nixos.org/nix-dev/2015-April/016912.html)
-        describes the infrastructure that keeps the Haskell package set in Nixpkgs
-        up-to-date.

doc/languages-frameworks/idris.section.md

@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-Idris packages
-==============
-
-This directory contains build rules for idris packages. In addition,
-it contains several functions to build and compose those packages.
-Everything is exposed to the user via the `idrisPackages` attribute.
-
-callPackage
-------------
-
-This is like the normal nixpkgs callPackage function, specialized to
-idris packages.
-
-builtins
----------
-
-This is a list of all of the libraries that come packaged with Idris
-itself.
-
-build-idris-package
---------------------
-
-A function to build an idris package. Its sole argument is a set like
-you might pass to `stdenv.mkDerivation`, except `build-idris-package`
-sets several attributes for you. See `build-idris-package.nix` for
-details.
-
-build-builtin-package
-----------------------
-
-A version of `build-idris-package` specialized to builtin libraries.
-Mostly for internal use.
-
-with-packages
--------------
-
-Bundle idris together with a list of packages. Because idris currently
-only supports a single directory in its library path, you must include
-all desired libraries here, including `prelude` and `base`.

doc/languages-frameworks/index.xml

@@ -1,30 +1,32 @@
 <chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
          xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
          xml:id="chap-language-support">
- <title>Support for specific programming languages and frameworks</title>
- <para>
-  The <link linkend="chap-stdenv">standard build environment</link> makes it
-  easy to build typical Autotools-based packages with very little code. Any
-  other kind of package can be accomodated by overriding the appropriate phases
-  of <literal>stdenv</literal>. However, there are specialised functions in
-  Nixpkgs to easily build packages for other programming languages, such as
-  Perl or Haskell. These are described in this chapter.
- </para>
- <xi:include href="beam.xml" />
- <xi:include href="bower.xml" />
- <xi:include href="coq.xml" />
- <xi:include href="go.xml" />
- <xi:include href="haskell.section.xml" />
- <xi:include href="idris.section.xml" />
- <xi:include href="java.xml" />
- <xi:include href="lua.xml" />
- <xi:include href="node.section.xml" />
- <xi:include href="perl.xml" />
- <xi:include href="python.section.xml" />
- <xi:include href="qt.xml" />
- <xi:include href="r.section.xml" />
- <xi:include href="ruby.xml" />
- <xi:include href="rust.section.xml" />
- <xi:include href="texlive.xml" />
- <xi:include href="vim.section.xml" />
+
+<title>Support for specific programming languages and frameworks</title>
+
+<para>The <link linkend="chap-stdenv">standard build
+environment</link> makes it easy to build typical Autotools-based
+packages with very little code.  Any other kind of package can be
+accomodated by overriding the appropriate phases of
+<literal>stdenv</literal>.  However, there are specialised functions
+in Nixpkgs to easily build packages for other programming languages,
+such as Perl or Haskell.  These are described in this chapter.</para>
+
+
+<xi:include href="beam.xml" />
+<xi:include href="bower.xml" />
+<xi:include href="coq.xml" />
+<xi:include href="go.xml" />
+<xi:include href="haskell.xml" />
+<xi:include href="idris.xml" /> <!-- generated from ../../pkgs/development/idris-modules/README.md  -->
+<xi:include href="java.xml" />
+<xi:include href="lua.xml" />
+<xi:include href="perl.xml" />
+<xi:include href="python.xml" />
+<xi:include href="qt.xml" />
+<xi:include href="r.xml" /> <!-- generated from ../../pkgs/development/r-modules/README.md  -->
+<xi:include href="ruby.xml" />
+<xi:include href="texlive.xml" />
+
+
 </chapter>

doc/languages-frameworks/java.xml

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 <section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
          xml:id="sec-language-java">
- <title>Java</title>
 
- <para>
-  Ant-based Java packages are typically built from source as follows:
+<title>Java</title>
+
+<para>Ant-based Java packages are typically built from source as follows:
+
 <programlisting>
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "...";
@@ -15,33 +16,33 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   buildPhase = "ant";
 }
 </programlisting>
-  Note that <varname>jdk</varname> is an alias for the OpenJDK.
- </para>
 
- <para>
-  JAR files that are intended to be used by other packages should be installed
-  in <filename>$out/share/java</filename>. The OpenJDK has a stdenv setup hook
-  that adds any JARs in the <filename>share/java</filename> directories of the
-  build inputs to the <envar>CLASSPATH</envar> environment variable. For
-  instance, if the package <literal>libfoo</literal> installs a JAR named
-  <filename>foo.jar</filename> in its <filename>share/java</filename>
-  directory, and another package declares the attribute
+Note that <varname>jdk</varname> is an alias for the OpenJDK.</para>
+
+<para>JAR files that are intended to be used by other packages should
+be installed in <filename>$out/share/java</filename>.  The OpenJDK has
+a stdenv setup hook that adds any JARs in the
+<filename>share/java</filename> directories of the build inputs to the
+<envar>CLASSPATH</envar> environment variable.  For instance, if the
+package <literal>libfoo</literal> installs a JAR named
+<filename>foo.jar</filename> in its <filename>share/java</filename>
+directory, and another package declares the attribute
+
 <programlisting>
 buildInputs = [ jdk libfoo ];
 </programlisting>
-  then <envar>CLASSPATH</envar> will be set to
-  <filename>/nix/store/...-libfoo/share/java/foo.jar</filename>.
- </para>
 
- <para>
-  Private JARs should be installed in a location like
-  <filename>$out/share/<replaceable>package-name</replaceable></filename>.
- </para>
+then <envar>CLASSPATH</envar> will be set to
+<filename>/nix/store/...-libfoo/share/java/foo.jar</filename>.</para>
+
+<para>Private JARs
+should be installed in a location like
+<filename>$out/share/<replaceable>package-name</replaceable></filename>.</para>
+
+<para>If your Java package provides a program, you need to generate a
+wrapper script to run it using the OpenJRE.  You can use
+<literal>makeWrapper</literal> for this:
 
- <para>
-  If your Java package provides a program, you need to generate a wrapper
-  script to run it using the OpenJRE. You can use
-  <literal>makeWrapper</literal> for this:
 <programlisting>
 buildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
 
@@ -52,27 +53,32 @@ installPhase =
       --add-flags "-cp $out/share/java/foo.jar org.foo.Main"
   '';
 </programlisting>
-  Note the use of <literal>jre</literal>, which is the part of the OpenJDK
-  package that contains the Java Runtime Environment. By using
-  <literal>${jre}/bin/java</literal> instead of
-  <literal>${jdk}/bin/java</literal>, you prevent your package from depending
-  on the JDK at runtime.
- </para>
 
- <para>
-  It is possible to use a different Java compiler than <command>javac</command>
-  from the OpenJDK. For instance, to use the Eclipse Java Compiler:
+Note the use of <literal>jre</literal>, which is the part of the
+OpenJDK package that contains the Java Runtime Environment.  By using
+<literal>${jre}/bin/java</literal> instead of
+<literal>${jdk}/bin/java</literal>, you prevent your package from
+depending on the JDK at runtime.</para>
+
+<para>It is possible to use a different Java compiler than
+<command>javac</command> from the OpenJDK.  For instance, to use the
+Eclipse Java Compiler:
+
 <programlisting>
 buildInputs = [ jre ant ecj ];
 </programlisting>
-  (Note that here you don’t need the full JDK as an input, but just the JRE.)
-  The ECJ has a stdenv setup hook that sets some environment variables to cause
-  Ant to use ECJ, but this doesn’t work with all Ant files. Similarly, you
-  can use the GNU Java Compiler:
+
+(Note that here you don’t need the full JDK as an input, but just the
+JRE.)  The ECJ has a stdenv setup hook that sets some environment
+variables to cause Ant to use ECJ, but this doesn’t work with all Ant
+files.  Similarly, you can use the GNU Java Compiler:
+
 <programlisting>
 buildInputs = [ gcj ant ];
 </programlisting>
-  Here, Ant will automatically use <command>gij</command> (the GNU Java
-  Runtime) instead of the OpenJRE.
- </para>
+
+Here, Ant will automatically use <command>gij</command> (the GNU Java
+Runtime) instead of the OpenJRE.</para>
+
 </section>
+

doc/languages-frameworks/lua.xml

@@ -1,22 +1,24 @@
 <section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
          xml:id="sec-language-lua">
- <title>Lua</title>
 
- <para>
-  Lua packages are built by the <varname>buildLuaPackage</varname> function.
-  This function is implemented in
-  <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generic/default.nix">
+<title>Lua</title>
+
+<para>
+  Lua packages are built by the <varname>buildLuaPackage</varname> function.  This function is
+  implemented
+  in <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generic/default.nix">
   <filename>pkgs/development/lua-modules/generic/default.nix</filename></link>
   and works similarly to <varname>buildPerlPackage</varname>. (See
   <xref linkend="sec-language-perl"/> for details.)
- </para>
+</para>
 
- <para>
-  Lua packages are defined in
-  <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix"><filename>pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix</filename></link>.
+<para>
+  Lua packages are defined
+  in <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix"><filename>pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix</filename></link>.
   Most of them are simple. For example:
-<programlisting>
+
+  <programlisting>
 fileSystem = buildLuaPackage {
   name = "filesystem-1.6.2";
   src = fetchurl {
@@ -30,19 +32,20 @@ fileSystem = buildLuaPackage {
   };
 };
   </programlisting>
- </para>
+</para>
 
- <para>
+<para>
   Though, more complicated package should be placed in a seperate file in
   <link
   xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/lua-modules"><filename>pkgs/development/lua-modules</filename></link>.
- </para>
+</para>
+<para>
+  Lua packages accept additional parameter <varname>disabled</varname>, which defines
+  the condition of disabling package from luaPackages. For example, if package has
+  <varname>disabled</varname> assigned to <literal>lua.luaversion != "5.1"</literal>,
+  it will not be included in any luaPackages except lua51Packages, making it
+  only be built for lua 5.1.
+</para>
 
- <para>
-  Lua packages accept additional parameter <varname>disabled</varname>, which
-  defines the condition of disabling package from luaPackages. For example, if
-  package has <varname>disabled</varname> assigned to <literal>lua.luaversion
-  != "5.1"</literal>, it will not be included in any luaPackages except
-  lua51Packages, making it only be built for lua 5.1.
- </para>
 </section>
+

doc/languages-frameworks/node.section.md

@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-Node.js packages
-================
-The `pkgs/development/node-packages` folder contains a generated collection of
-[NPM packages](https://npmjs.com/) that can be installed with the Nix package
-manager.
-
-As a rule of thumb, the package set should only provide *end user* software
-packages, such as command-line utilities. Libraries should only be added to the
-package set if there is a non-NPM package that requires it.
-
-When it is desired to use NPM libraries in a development project, use the
-`node2nix` generator directly on the `package.json` configuration file of the
-project.
-
-The package set also provides support for multiple Node.js versions. The policy
-is that a new package should be added to the collection for the latest stable LTS
-release (which is currently 6.x), unless there is an explicit reason to support
-a different release.
-
-If your package uses native addons, you need to examine what kind of native
-build system it uses. Here are some examples:
-
-* `node-gyp`
-* `node-gyp-builder`
-* `node-pre-gyp`
-
-After you have identified the correct system, you need to override your package
-expression while adding in build system as a build input. For example, `dat`
-requires `node-gyp-build`, so we override its expression in `default-v6.nix`:
-
-```nix
-dat = nodePackages.dat.override (oldAttrs: {
-  buildInputs = oldAttrs.buildInputs ++ [ nodePackages.node-gyp-build ];
-});
-```
-
-To add a package from NPM to nixpkgs:
-
- 1. Modify `pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages-v6.json` to add, update
-    or remove package entries. (Or `pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages-v4.json`
-    for packages depending on Node.js 4.x)
- 2. Run the script: `(cd pkgs/development/node-packages && ./generate.sh)`.
- 3. Build your new package to test your changes:
-    `cd /path/to/nixpkgs && nix-build -A nodePackages.<new-or-updated-package>`.
-    To build against a specific Node.js version (e.g. 4.x):
-    `nix-build -A nodePackages_4_x.<new-or-updated-package>`
- 4. Add and commit all modified and generated files.
-
-For more information about the generation process, consult the
-[README.md](https://github.com/svanderburg/node2nix) file of the `node2nix`
-tool.

doc/languages-frameworks/perl.xml

@@ -1,27 +1,24 @@
 <section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
          xml:id="sec-language-perl">
- <title>Perl</title>
 
- <para>
-  Nixpkgs provides a function <varname>buildPerlPackage</varname>, a generic
-  package builder function for any Perl package that has a standard
-  <varname>Makefile.PL</varname>. It’s implemented in
-  <link
-xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/perl-modules/generic"><filename>pkgs/development/perl-modules/generic</filename></link>.
- </para>
+<title>Perl</title>
 
- <para>
-  Perl packages from CPAN are defined in
-  <link
+<para>Nixpkgs provides a function <varname>buildPerlPackage</varname>,
+a generic package builder function for any Perl package that has a
+standard <varname>Makefile.PL</varname>.  It’s implemented in <link
+xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/perl-modules/generic"><filename>pkgs/development/perl-modules/generic</filename></link>.</para>
+
+<para>Perl packages from CPAN are defined in <link
 xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix"><filename>pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix</filename></link>,
-  rather than <filename>pkgs/all-packages.nix</filename>. Most Perl packages
-  are so straight-forward to build that they are defined here directly, rather
-  than having a separate function for each package called from
-  <filename>perl-packages.nix</filename>. However, more complicated packages
-  should be put in a separate file, typically in
-  <filename>pkgs/development/perl-modules</filename>. Here is an example of the
-  former:
+rather than <filename>pkgs/all-packages.nix</filename>.  Most Perl
+packages are so straight-forward to build that they are defined here
+directly, rather than having a separate function for each package
+called from <filename>perl-packages.nix</filename>.  However, more
+complicated packages should be put in a separate file, typically in
+<filename>pkgs/development/perl-modules</filename>.  Here is an
+example of the former:
+
 <programlisting>
 ClassC3 = buildPerlPackage rec {
   name = "Class-C3-0.21";
@@ -31,72 +28,74 @@ ClassC3 = buildPerlPackage rec {
   };
 };
 </programlisting>
-  Note the use of <literal>mirror://cpan/</literal>, and the
-  <literal>${name}</literal> in the URL definition to ensure that the name
-  attribute is consistent with the source that we’re actually downloading.
-  Perl packages are made available in <filename>all-packages.nix</filename>
-  through the variable <varname>perlPackages</varname>. For instance, if you
-  have a package that needs <varname>ClassC3</varname>, you would typically
-  write
+
+Note the use of <literal>mirror://cpan/</literal>, and the
+<literal>${name}</literal> in the URL definition to ensure that the
+name attribute is consistent with the source that we’re actually
+downloading.  Perl packages are made available in
+<filename>all-packages.nix</filename> through the variable
+<varname>perlPackages</varname>.  For instance, if you have a package
+that needs <varname>ClassC3</varname>, you would typically write
+
 <programlisting>
 foo = import ../path/to/foo.nix {
   inherit stdenv fetchurl ...;
   inherit (perlPackages) ClassC3;
 };
 </programlisting>
-  in <filename>all-packages.nix</filename>. You can test building a Perl
-  package as follows:
+
+in <filename>all-packages.nix</filename>.  You can test building a
+Perl package as follows:
+
 <screen>
 $ nix-build -A perlPackages.ClassC3
 </screen>
-  <varname>buildPerlPackage</varname> adds <literal>perl-</literal> to the
-  start of the name attribute, so the package above is actually called
-  <literal>perl-Class-C3-0.21</literal>. So to install it, you can say:
+
+<varname>buildPerlPackage</varname> adds <literal>perl-</literal> to
+the start of the name attribute, so the package above is actually
+called <literal>perl-Class-C3-0.21</literal>.  So to install it, you
+can say:
+
 <screen>
 $ nix-env -i perl-Class-C3
 </screen>
-  (Of course you can also install using the attribute name: <literal>nix-env -i
-  -A perlPackages.ClassC3</literal>.)
- </para>
 
- <para>
-  So what does <varname>buildPerlPackage</varname> do? It does the following:
-  <orderedlist>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     In the configure phase, it calls <literal>perl Makefile.PL</literal> to
-     generate a Makefile. You can set the variable
-     <varname>makeMakerFlags</varname> to pass flags to
-     <filename>Makefile.PL</filename>
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     It adds the contents of the <envar>PERL5LIB</envar> environment variable
-     to <literal>#! .../bin/perl</literal> line of Perl scripts as
-     <literal>-I<replaceable>dir</replaceable></literal> flags. This ensures
-     that a script can find its dependencies.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     In the fixup phase, it writes the propagated build inputs
-     (<varname>propagatedBuildInputs</varname>) to the file
-     <filename>$out/nix-support/propagated-user-env-packages</filename>.
-     <command>nix-env</command> recursively installs all packages listed in
-     this file when you install a package that has it. This ensures that a Perl
-     package can find its dependencies.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-  </orderedlist>
- </para>
+(Of course you can also install using the attribute name:
+<literal>nix-env -i -A perlPackages.ClassC3</literal>.)</para>
+
+<para>So what does <varname>buildPerlPackage</varname> do?  It does
+the following:
+
+<orderedlist>
+
+  <listitem><para>In the configure phase, it calls <literal>perl
+  Makefile.PL</literal> to generate a Makefile.  You can set the
+  variable <varname>makeMakerFlags</varname> to pass flags to
+  <filename>Makefile.PL</filename></para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>It adds the contents of the <envar>PERL5LIB</envar>
+  environment variable to <literal>#! .../bin/perl</literal> line of
+  Perl scripts as <literal>-I<replaceable>dir</replaceable></literal>
+  flags.  This ensures that a script can find its
+  dependencies.</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>In the fixup phase, it writes the propagated build
+  inputs (<varname>propagatedBuildInputs</varname>) to the file
+  <filename>$out/nix-support/propagated-user-env-packages</filename>.
+  <command>nix-env</command> recursively installs all packages listed
+  in this file when you install a package that has it.  This ensures
+  that a Perl package can find its dependencies.</para></listitem>
+
+</orderedlist>
+
+</para>
+
+<para><varname>buildPerlPackage</varname> is built on top of
+<varname>stdenv</varname>, so everything can be customised in the
+usual way.  For instance, the <literal>BerkeleyDB</literal> module has
+a <varname>preConfigure</varname> hook to generate a configuration
+file used by <filename>Makefile.PL</filename>:
 
- <para>
-  <varname>buildPerlPackage</varname> is built on top of
-  <varname>stdenv</varname>, so everything can be customised in the usual way.
-  For instance, the <literal>BerkeleyDB</literal> module has a
-  <varname>preConfigure</varname> hook to generate a configuration file used by
-  <filename>Makefile.PL</filename>:
 <programlisting>
 { buildPerlPackage, fetchurl, db }:
 
@@ -114,15 +113,18 @@ buildPerlPackage rec {
   '';
 }
 </programlisting>
- </para>
 
- <para>
-  Dependencies on other Perl packages can be specified in the
-  <varname>buildInputs</varname> and <varname>propagatedBuildInputs</varname>
-  attributes. If something is exclusively a build-time dependency, use
-  <varname>buildInputs</varname>; if it’s (also) a runtime dependency, use
-  <varname>propagatedBuildInputs</varname>. For instance, this builds a Perl
-  module that has runtime dependencies on a bunch of other modules:
+</para>
+
+<para>Dependencies on other Perl packages can be specified in the
+<varname>buildInputs</varname> and
+<varname>propagatedBuildInputs</varname> attributes.  If something is
+exclusively a build-time dependency, use
+<varname>buildInputs</varname>; if it’s (also) a runtime dependency,
+use <varname>propagatedBuildInputs</varname>.  For instance, this
+builds a Perl module that has runtime dependencies on a bunch of other
+modules:
+
 <programlisting>
 ClassC3Componentised = buildPerlPackage rec {
   name = "Class-C3-Componentised-1.0004";
@@ -135,44 +137,45 @@ ClassC3Componentised = buildPerlPackage rec {
   ];
 };
 </programlisting>
- </para>
 
- <section xml:id="ssec-generation-from-CPAN">
-  <title>Generation from CPAN</title>
+</para>
 
-  <para>
-   Nix expressions for Perl packages can be generated (almost) automatically
-   from CPAN. This is done by the program
-   <command>nix-generate-from-cpan</command>, which can be installed as
-   follows:
-  </para>
+<section xml:id="ssec-generation-from-CPAN"><title>Generation from CPAN</title>
+
+<para>Nix expressions for Perl packages can be generated (almost)
+automatically from CPAN.  This is done by the program
+<command>nix-generate-from-cpan</command>, which can be installed
+as follows:</para>
 
 <screen>
 $ nix-env -i nix-generate-from-cpan
 </screen>
 
-  <para>
-   This program takes a Perl module name, looks it up on CPAN, fetches and
-   unpacks the corresponding package, and prints a Nix expression on standard
-   output. For example:
+<para>This program takes a Perl module name, looks it up on CPAN,
+fetches and unpacks the corresponding package, and prints a Nix
+expression on standard output.  For example:
+
 <screen>
 $ nix-generate-from-cpan XML::Simple
-  XMLSimple = buildPerlPackage rec {
-    name = "XML-Simple-2.22";
+  XMLSimple = buildPerlPackage {
+    name = "XML-Simple-2.20";
     src = fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/G/GR/GRANTM/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "b9450ef22ea9644ae5d6ada086dc4300fa105be050a2030ebd4efd28c198eb49";
+      url = mirror://cpan/authors/id/G/GR/GRANTM/XML-Simple-2.20.tar.gz;
+      sha256 = "5cff13d0802792da1eb45895ce1be461903d98ec97c9c953bc8406af7294434a";
     };
     propagatedBuildInputs = [ XMLNamespaceSupport XMLSAX XMLSAXExpat ];
     meta = {
-      description = "An API for simple XML files";
-      license = with stdenv.lib.licenses; [ artistic1 gpl1Plus ];
+      description = "Easily read/write XML (esp config files)";
+      license = "perl";
     };
   };
 </screen>
-   The output can be pasted into
-   <filename>pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix</filename> or wherever else you
-   need it.
-  </para>
- </section>
+
+The output can be pasted into
+<filename>pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix</filename> or wherever else
+you need it.</para>
+
 </section>
+
+</section>
+

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+# Python
+
+## User Guide
+
+Several versions of Python are available on Nix as well as a high amount of
+packages. The default interpreter is CPython 2.7.
+
+### Using Python
+
+#### Installing Python and packages
+
+It is important to make a distinction between Python packages that are
+used as libraries, and applications that are written in Python.
+
+Applications on Nix are installed typically into your user
+profile imperatively using `nix-env -i`, and on NixOS declaratively by adding the
+package name to `environment.systemPackages` in `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix`.
+Dependencies such as libraries are automatically installed and should not be
+installed explicitly.
+
+The same goes for Python applications and libraries. Python applications can be
+installed in your profile, but Python libraries you would like to use to develop
+cannot. If you do install libraries in your profile, then you will end up with
+import errors.
+
+#### Python environments using `nix-shell`
+
+The recommended method for creating Python environments for development is with
+`nix-shell`. Executing
+
+```sh
+$ nix-shell -p python35Packages.numpy python35Packages.toolz
+```
+
+opens a Nix shell which has available the requested packages and dependencies.
+Now you can launch the Python interpreter (which is itself a dependency)
+
+```sh
+[nix-shell:~] python3
+```
+
+If the packages were not available yet in the Nix store, Nix would download or
+build them automatically. A convenient option with `nix-shell` is the `--run`
+option, with which you can execute a command in the `nix-shell`. Let's say we
+want the above environment and directly run the Python interpreter
+
+```sh
+$ nix-shell -p python35Packages.numpy python35Packages.toolz --run "python3"
+```
+
+This way you can use the `--run` option also to directly run a script
+
+```sh
+$ nix-shell -p python35Packages.numpy python35Packages.toolz --run "python3 myscript.py"
+```
+
+In fact, for this specific use case there is a more convenient method. You can
+add a [shebang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix)) to your script
+specifying which dependencies Nix shell needs. With the following shebang, you
+can use `nix-shell myscript.py` and it will make available all dependencies and
+run the script in the `python3` shell.
+
+```py
+#! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
+#! nix-shell -i python3 -p python3Packages.numpy
+
+import numpy
+
+print(numpy.__version__)
+```
+
+Likely you do not want to type your dependencies each and every time. What you
+can do is write a simple Nix expression which sets up an environment for you,
+requiring you only to type `nix-shell`. Say we want to have Python 3.5, `numpy`
+and `toolz`, like before, in an environment. With a `shell.nix` file
+containing
+
+```nix
+with import <nixpkgs> {};
+
+(pkgs.python35.withPackages (ps: [ps.numpy ps.toolz])).env
+```
+executing `nix-shell` gives you again a Nix shell from which you can run Python.
+
+What's happening here?
+
+1. We begin with importing the Nix Packages collections. `import <nixpkgs>` import the `<nixpkgs>` function, `{}` calls it and the `with` statement brings all attributes of `nixpkgs` in the local scope. Therefore we can now use `pkgs`.
+2. Then we create a Python 3.5 environment with the `withPackages` function.
+3. The `withPackages` function expects us to provide a function as an argument that takes the set of all python packages and returns a list of packages to include in the environment. Here, we select the packages `numpy` and `toolz` from the package set.
+4. And finally, for in interactive use we return the environment by using the `env` attribute.
+
+### Developing with Python
+
+
+Now that you know how to get a working Python environment on Nix, it is time to go forward and start actually developing with Python.
+We will first have a look at how Python packages are packaged on Nix. Then, we will look how you can use development mode with your code.
+
+#### Python packaging on Nix
+
+On Nix all packages are built by functions. The main function in Nix for building Python packages is [`buildPythonPackage`](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/python-modules/generic/default.nix).
+Let's see how we would build the `toolz` package. According to [`python-packages.nix`](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix) `toolz` is build using
+
+```nix
+toolz = buildPythonPackage rec{
+  name = "toolz-${version}";
+  version = "0.7.4";
+
+  src = pkgs.fetchurl{
+    url = "mirror://pypi/t/toolz/toolz-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "43c2c9e5e7a16b6c88ba3088a9bfc82f7db8e13378be7c78d6c14a5f8ed05afd";
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://github.com/pytoolz/toolz/";
+    description = "List processing tools and functional utilities";
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ fridh ];
+  };
+};
+```
+
+What happens here? The function `buildPythonPackage` is called and as argument
+it accepts a set. In this case the set is a recursive set ([`rec`](http://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sec-constructs)).
+One of the arguments is the name of the package, which consists of a basename
+(generally following the name on PyPi) and a version. Another argument, `src`
+specifies the source, which in this case is fetched from an url. `fetchurl` not
+only downloads the target file, but also validates its hash. Furthermore, we
+specify some (optional) [meta information](http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#chap-meta).
+
+The output of the function is a derivation, which is an attribute with the name
+`toolz` of the set `pythonPackages`. Actually, sets are created for all interpreter versions,
+so `python27Packages`, `python34Packages`, `python35Packages` and `pypyPackages`.
+
+The above example works when you're directly working on
+`pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix` in the Nixpkgs repository. Often though,
+you will want to test a Nix expression outside of the Nixpkgs tree. If you
+create a `shell.nix` file with the following contents
+
+```nix
+with import <nixpkgs> {};
+
+pkgs.python35Packages.buildPythonPackage rec {
+  name = "toolz-${version}";
+  version = "0.7.4";
+
+  src = pkgs.fetchurl{
+    url = "mirror://pypi/t/toolz/toolz-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "43c2c9e5e7a16b6c88ba3088a9bfc82f7db8e13378be7c78d6c14a5f8ed05afd";
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://github.com/pytoolz/toolz/";
+    description = "List processing tools and functional utilities";
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ fridh ];
+  };
+}
+```
+
+and then execute `nix-shell` will result in an environment in which you can use
+Python 3.5 and the `toolz` package. As you can see we had to explicitly mention
+for which Python version we want to build a package.
+
+The above example considered only a single package. Generally you will want to use multiple packages.
+If we create a `shell.nix` file with the following contents
+
+```nix
+with import <nixpkgs> {};
+
+( let
+    toolz = pkgs.python35Packages.buildPythonPackage rec {
+      name = "toolz-${version}";
+      version = "0.7.4";
+
+      src = pkgs.fetchurl{
+        url = "mirror://pypi/t/toolz/toolz-${version}.tar.gz";
+        sha256 = "43c2c9e5e7a16b6c88ba3088a9bfc82f7db8e13378be7c78d6c14a5f8ed05afd";
+      };
+
+      meta = {
+        homepage = "http://github.com/pytoolz/toolz/";
+        description = "List processing tools and functional utilities";
+        license = licenses.bsd3;
+        maintainers = with maintainers; [ fridh ];
+      };
+    };
+
+  in pkgs.python35.withPackages (ps: [ps.numpy toolz])
+).env
+```
+
+and again execute `nix-shell`, then we get a Python 3.5 environment with our
+locally defined package as well as `numpy` which is build according to the
+definition in Nixpkgs. What did we do here? Well, we took the Nix expression
+that we used earlier to build a Python environment, and said that we wanted to
+include our own version of `toolz`. To introduce our own package in the scope of
+`withPackages` we used a
+[`let`](http://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sec-constructs) expression.
+You can see that we used `ps.numpy` to select numpy from the nixpkgs package set (`ps`).
+But we do not take `toolz` from the nixpkgs package set this time.
+Instead, `toolz` will resolve to our local definition that we introduced with `let`.
+
+### Handling dependencies
+
+Our example, `toolz`, doesn't have any dependencies on other Python
+packages or system libraries. According to the manual,  `buildPythonPackage`
+uses the arguments `buildInputs` and `propagatedBuildInputs` to specify dependencies. If something is
+exclusively a build-time dependency, then the dependency should be included as a
+`buildInput`, but if it is (also) a runtime dependency, then it should be added
+to `propagatedBuildInputs`. Test dependencies are considered build-time dependencies.
+
+The following example shows which arguments are given to `buildPythonPackage` in
+order to build [`datashape`](https://github.com/blaze/datashape).
+
+```nix
+datashape = buildPythonPackage rec {
+  name = "datashape-${version}";
+  version = "0.4.7";
+
+  src = pkgs.fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://pypi/D/DataShape/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "14b2ef766d4c9652ab813182e866f493475e65e558bed0822e38bf07bba1a278";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = with self; [ pytest ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ numpy multipledispatch dateutil ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = https://github.com/ContinuumIO/datashape;
+    description = "A data description language";
+    license = licenses.bsd2;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ fridh ];
+  };
+};
+```
+
+We can see several runtime dependencies, `numpy`, `multipledispatch`, and
+`dateutil`. Furthermore, we have one `buildInput`, i.e. `pytest`. `pytest` is a
+test runner and is only used during the `checkPhase` and is therefore not added
+to `propagatedBuildInputs`.
+
+In the previous case we had only dependencies on other Python packages to consider.
+Occasionally you have also system libraries to consider. E.g., `lxml` provides
+Python bindings to `libxml2` and `libxslt`. These libraries are only required
+when building the bindings and are therefore added as `buildInputs`.
+
+```nix
+lxml = buildPythonPackage rec {
+  name = "lxml-3.4.4";
+
+  src = pkgs.fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://pypi/l/lxml/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "16a0fa97hym9ysdk3rmqz32xdjqmy4w34ld3rm3jf5viqjx65lxk";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = with self; [ pkgs.libxml2 pkgs.libxslt ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Pythonic binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries";
+    homepage = http://lxml.de;
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ sjourdois ];
+  };
+};
+```
+
+In this example `lxml` and Nix are able to work out exactly where the relevant
+files of the dependencies are. This is not always the case.
+
+The example below shows bindings to The Fastest Fourier Transform in the West, commonly known as
+FFTW. On Nix we have separate packages of FFTW for the different types of floats
+(`"single"`, `"double"`, `"long-double"`). The bindings need all three types,
+and therefore we add all three as `buildInputs`. The bindings don't expect to
+find each of them in a different folder, and therefore we have to set `LDFLAGS`
+and `CFLAGS`.
+
+```nix
+pyfftw = buildPythonPackage rec {
+  name = "pyfftw-${version}";
+  version = "0.9.2";
+
+  src = pkgs.fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://pypi/p/pyFFTW/pyFFTW-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "f6bbb6afa93085409ab24885a1a3cdb8909f095a142f4d49e346f2bd1b789074";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ pkgs.fftw pkgs.fftwFloat pkgs.fftwLongDouble];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ numpy scipy ];
+
+  # Tests cannot import pyfftw. pyfftw works fine though.
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  LDFLAGS="-L${pkgs.fftw.dev}/lib -L${pkgs.fftwFloat.out}/lib -L${pkgs.fftwLongDouble.out}/lib"
+  CFLAGS="-I${pkgs.fftw.dev}/include -I${pkgs.fftwFloat.dev}/include -I${pkgs.fftwLongDouble.dev}/include"
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "A pythonic wrapper around FFTW, the FFT library, presenting a unified interface for all the supported transforms";
+    homepage = http://hgomersall.github.com/pyFFTW/;
+    license = with licenses; [ bsd2 bsd3 ];
+    maintainer = with maintainers; [ fridh ];
+  };
+};
+```
+Note also the line `doCheck = false;`, we explicitly disabled running the test-suite.
+
+
+#### Develop local package
+
+As a Python developer you're likely aware of [development mode](http://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/setuptools.html#development-mode) (`python setup.py develop`);
+instead of installing the package this command creates a special link to the project code.
+That way, you can run updated code without having to reinstall after each and every change you make.
+Development mode is also available on Nix as [explained](http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#ssec-python-development) in the Nixpkgs manual.
+Let's see how you can use it.
+
+In the previous Nix expression the source was fetched from an url. We can also refer to a local source instead using
+
+```nix
+src = ./path/to/source/tree;
+```
+
+If we create a `shell.nix` file which calls `buildPythonPackage`, and if `src`
+is a local source, and if the local source has a `setup.py`, then development
+mode is activated.
+
+In the following example we create a simple environment that
+has a Python 3.5 version of our package in it, as well as its dependencies and
+other packages we like to have in the environment, all specified with `propagatedBuildInputs`.
+Indeed, we can just add any package we like to have in our environment to `propagatedBuildInputs`.
+
+```nix
+with import <nixpkgs>;
+with pkgs.python35Packages;
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  name = "mypackage";
+  src = ./path/to/package/source;
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ pytest numpy pkgs.libsndfile ];
+};
+```
+
+It is important to note that due to how development mode is implemented on Nix it is not possible to have multiple packages simultaneously in development mode.
+
+
+### Organising your packages
+
+So far we discussed how you can use Python on Nix, and how you can develop with
+it. We've looked at how you write expressions to package Python packages, and we
+looked at how you can create environments in which specified packages are
+available.
+
+At some point you'll likely have multiple packages which you would
+like to be able to use in different projects. In order to minimise unnecessary
+duplication we now look at how you can maintain yourself a repository with your
+own packages. The important functions here are `import` and `callPackage`.
+
+### Including a derivation using `callPackage`
+
+Earlier we created a Python environment using `withPackages`, and included the
+`toolz` package via a `let` expression.
+Let's split the package definition from the environment definition.
+
+We first create a function that builds `toolz` in `~/path/to/toolz/release.nix`
+
+```nix
+{ pkgs, buildPythonPackage }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  name = "toolz-${version}";
+  version = "0.7.4";
+
+  src = pkgs.fetchurl{
+    url = "mirror://pypi/t/toolz/toolz-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "43c2c9e5e7a16b6c88ba3088a9bfc82f7db8e13378be7c78d6c14a5f8ed05afd";
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://github.com/pytoolz/toolz/";
+    description = "List processing tools and functional utilities";
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ fridh ];
+  };
+};
+```
+
+It takes two arguments, `pkgs` and `buildPythonPackage`.
+We now call this function using `callPackage` in the definition of our environment
+
+```nix
+with import <nixpkgs> {};
+
+( let
+    toolz = pkgs.callPackage ~/path/to/toolz/release.nix { pkgs=pkgs; buildPythonPackage=pkgs.python35Packages.buildPythonPackage; };
+  in pkgs.python35.withPackages (ps: [ ps.numpy toolz ])
+).env
+```
+
+Important to remember is that the Python version for which the package is made
+depends on the `python` derivation that is passed to `buildPythonPackage`. Nix
+tries to automatically pass arguments when possible, which is why generally you
+don't explicitly define which `python` derivation should be used. In the above
+example we use `buildPythonPackage` that is part of the set `python35Packages`,
+and in this case the `python35` interpreter is automatically used.
+
+
+
+## Reference
+
+### Interpreters
+
+Versions 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 of the CPython interpreter are available on
+Nix and are available as `python26`, `python27`, `python33`, `python34` and
+`python35`. The PyPy interpreter is also available as `pypy`. Currently, the
+aliases `python` and `python3` correspond to respectively `python27` and
+`python35`. The Nix expressions for the interpreters can be found in
+`pkgs/development/interpreters/python`.
+
+
+#### Missing modules standard library
+
+The interpreters `python26` and `python27` do not include modules that
+require external dependencies. This is done in order to reduce the closure size.
+The following modules need to be added as `buildInput` explicitly:
+
+* `python.modules.bsddb`
+* `python.modules.curses`
+* `python.modules.curses_panel`
+* `python.modules.crypt`
+* `python.modules.gdbm`
+* `python.modules.sqlite3`
+* `python.modules.tkinter`
+* `python.modules.readline`
+
+For convenience `python27Full` and `python26Full` are provided with all
+modules included.
+
+All packages depending on any Python interpreter get appended
+`out/{python.sitePackages}` to `$PYTHONPATH` if such directory
+exists.
+
+#### Attributes on interpreters packages
+
+Each interpreter has the following attributes:
+
+- `libPrefix`. Name of the folder in `${python}/lib/` for corresponding interpreter.
+- `interpreter`. Alias for `${python}/bin/${executable}`.
+- `buildEnv`. Function to build python interpreter environments with extra packages bundled together. See section *python.buildEnv function* for usage and documentation.
+- `withPackages`. Simpler interface to `buildEnv`. See section *python.withPackages function* for usage and documentation.
+- `sitePackages`. Alias for `lib/${libPrefix}/site-packages`.
+- `executable`. Name of the interpreter executable, ie `python3.4`.
+
+### Building packages and applications
+
+Python packages (libraries) and applications that use `setuptools` or
+`distutils` are typically built with respectively the `buildPythonPackage` and
+`buildPythonApplication` functions.
+
+All Python packages reside in `pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix` and all
+applications elsewhere. Some packages are also defined in
+`pkgs/development/python-modules`. It is important that these packages are
+called in `pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix` and not elsewhere, to guarantee
+the right version of the package is built.
+
+Based on the packages defined in `pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix` an
+attribute set is created for each available Python interpreter. The available
+sets are
+
+* `pkgs.python26Packages`
+* `pkgs.python27Packages`
+* `pkgs.python33Packages`
+* `pkgs.python34Packages`
+* `pkgs.python35Packages`
+* `pkgs.pypyPackages`
+
+and the aliases
+
+* `pkgs.pythonPackages` pointing to `pkgs.python27Packages`
+* `pkgs.python3Packages` pointing to `pkgs.python35Packages`
+
+#### `buildPythonPackage` function
+
+The `buildPythonPackage` function is implemented in
+`pkgs/development/python-modules/generic/default.nix`
+
+and can be used as:
+
+    twisted = buildPythonPackage {
+      name = "twisted-8.1.0";
+
+      src = pkgs.fetchurl {
+        url = http://tmrc.mit.edu/mirror/twisted/Twisted/8.1/Twisted-8.1.0.tar.bz2;
+        sha256 = "0q25zbr4xzknaghha72mq57kh53qw1bf8csgp63pm9sfi72qhirl";
+      };
+
+      propagatedBuildInputs = [ self.ZopeInterface ];
+
+      meta = {
+        homepage = http://twistedmatrix.com/;
+        description = "Twisted, an event-driven networking engine written in Python";
+        license = stdenv.lib.licenses.mit; };
+      };
+
+The `buildPythonPackage` mainly does four things:
+
+* In the `buildPhase`, it calls `${python.interpreter} setup.py bdist_wheel` to
+  build a wheel binary zipfile.
+* In the `installPhase`, it installs the wheel file using `pip install *.whl`.
+* In the `postFixup` phase, the `wrapPythonPrograms` bash function is called to
+  wrap all programs in the `$out/bin/*` directory to include `$PATH`
+  environment variable and add dependent libraries to script's `sys.path`.
+* In the `installCheck` phase, `${python.interpreter} setup.py test` is ran.
+
+As in Perl, dependencies on other Python packages can be specified in the
+`buildInputs` and `propagatedBuildInputs` attributes.  If something is
+exclusively a build-time dependency, use `buildInputs`; if it’s (also) a runtime
+dependency, use `propagatedBuildInputs`.
+
+By default tests are run because `doCheck = true`. Test dependencies, like
+e.g. the test runner, should be added to `buildInputs`.
+
+By default `meta.platforms` is set to the same value
+as the interpreter unless overriden otherwise.
+
+##### `buildPythonPackage` parameters
+
+All parameters from `mkDerivation` function are still supported.
+
+* `namePrefix`: Prepended text to `${name}` parameter. Defaults to `"python3.3-"` for Python 3.3, etc. Set it to `""` if you're packaging an application or a command line tool.
+* `disabled`: If `true`, package is not build for particular python interpreter version. Grep around `pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix` for examples.
+* `setupPyBuildFlags`: List of flags passed to `setup.py build_ext` command.
+* `pythonPath`: List of packages to be added into `$PYTHONPATH`. Packages in `pythonPath` are not propagated (contrary to `propagatedBuildInputs`).
+* `preShellHook`: Hook to execute commands before `shellHook`.
+* `postShellHook`: Hook to execute commands after `shellHook`.
+* `makeWrapperArgs`: A list of strings. Arguments to be passed to `makeWrapper`, which wraps generated binaries. By default, the arguments to `makeWrapper` set `PATH` and `PYTHONPATH` environment variables before calling the binary. Additional arguments here can allow a developer to set environment variables which will be available when the binary is run. For example, `makeWrapperArgs = ["--set FOO BAR" "--set BAZ QUX"]`.
+* `installFlags`: A list of strings. Arguments to be passed to `pip install`. To pass options to `python setup.py install`, use `--install-option`. E.g., `installFlags=["--install-option='--cpp_implementation'"].
+* `format`: Format of the source. Options are `setup` for when the source has a `setup.py` and `setuptools` is used to build a wheel, and `wheel` in case the source is already a binary wheel. The default value is `setup`.
+* `catchConflicts` If `true`, abort package build if a package name appears more than once in dependency tree. Default is `true`.
+
+#### `buildPythonApplication` function
+
+The `buildPythonApplication` function is practically the same as `buildPythonPackage`.
+The difference is that `buildPythonPackage` by default prefixes the names of the packages with the version of the interpreter.
+Because with an application we're not interested in multiple version the prefix is dropped.
+
+#### python.buildEnv function
+
+Python environments can be created using the low-level `pkgs.buildEnv` function.
+This example shows how to create an environment that has the Pyramid Web Framework.
+Saving the following as `default.nix`
+
+    with import <nixpkgs> {};
+
+    python.buildEnv.override {
+      extraLibs = [ pkgs.pythonPackages.pyramid ];
+      ignoreCollisions = true;
+    }
+
+and running `nix-build` will create
+
+    /nix/store/cf1xhjwzmdki7fasgr4kz6di72ykicl5-python-2.7.8-env
+
+with wrapped binaries in `bin/`.
+
+You can also use the `env` attribute to create local environments with needed
+packages installed. This is somewhat comparable to `virtualenv`. For example,
+running `nix-shell` with the following `shell.nix`
+
+    with import <nixpkgs> {};
+
+    (python3.buildEnv.override {
+      extraLibs = with python3Packages; [ numpy requests2 ];
+    }).env
+
+will drop you into a shell where Python will have the
+specified packages in its path.
+
+
+##### `python.buildEnv` arguments
+
+* `extraLibs`: List of packages installed inside the environment.
+* `postBuild`: Shell command executed after the build of environment.
+* `ignoreCollisions`: Ignore file collisions inside the environment (default is `false`).
+
+#### python.withPackages function
+
+The `python.withPackages` function provides a simpler interface to the `python.buildEnv` functionality.
+It takes a function as an argument that is passed the set of python packages and returns the list 
+of the packages to be included in the environment. Using the `withPackages` function, the previous
+example for the Pyramid Web Framework environment can be written like this:
+
+    with import <nixpkgs> {};
+
+    python.withPackages (ps: [ps.pyramid])
+
+`withPackages` passes the correct package set for the specific interpreter version as an 
+argument to the function. In the above example, `ps` equals `pythonPackages`.
+But you can also easily switch to using python3:
+    
+    with import <nixpkgs> {};
+
+    python3.withPackages (ps: [ps.pyramid])
+
+Now, `ps` is set to `python3Packages`, matching the version of the interpreter.
+
+As `python.withPackages` simply uses `python.buildEnv` under the hood, it also supports the `env`
+attribute. The `shell.nix` file from the previous section can thus be also written like this:
+
+    with import <nixpkgs> {};
+
+    (python33.withPackages (ps: [ps.numpy ps.requests2])).env
+
+In contrast to `python.buildEnv`, `python.withPackages` does not support the more advanced options
+such as `ignoreCollisions = true` or `postBuild`. If you need them, you have to use `python.buildEnv`.
+
+### Development mode
+
+Development or editable mode is supported. To develop Python packages
+`buildPythonPackage` has additional logic inside `shellPhase` to run `pip
+install -e . --prefix $TMPDIR/`for the package.
+
+Warning: `shellPhase` is executed only if `setup.py` exists.
+
+Given a `default.nix`:
+
+    with import <nixpkgs> {};
+
+    buildPythonPackage { name = "myproject";
+
+    buildInputs = with pkgs.pythonPackages; [ pyramid ];
+
+    src = ./.; }
+
+Running `nix-shell` with no arguments should give you
+the environment in which the package would be built with
+`nix-build`.
+
+Shortcut to setup environments with C headers/libraries and python packages:
+
+    $ nix-shell -p pythonPackages.pyramid zlib libjpeg git
+
+Note: There is a boolean value `lib.inNixShell` set to `true` if nix-shell is invoked.
+
+### Tools
+
+Packages inside nixpkgs are written by hand. However many tools exist in
+community to help save time. No tool is preferred at the moment.
+
+- [python2nix](https://github.com/proger/python2nix) by Vladimir Kirillov
+- [pypi2nix](https://github.com/garbas/pypi2nix) by Rok Garbas
+- [pypi2nix](https://github.com/offlinehacker/pypi2nix) by Jaka Hudoklin
+
+## FAQ
+
+### How can I install a working Python environment?
+
+As explained in the user's guide installing individual Python packages
+imperatively with `nix-env -i` or declaratively in `environment.systemPackages`
+is not supported. However, it is possible to install a Python environment with packages (`python.buildEnv`).
+
+In the following examples we create an environment with Python 3.5, `numpy` and `ipython`.
+As you might imagine there is one limitation here, and that's you can install
+only one environment at a time. You will notice the complaints about collisions
+when you try to install a second environment.
+
+#### Environment defined in separate `.nix` file
+
+Create a file, e.g. `build.nix`, with the following expression
+```nix
+with import <nixpkgs> {};
+with python35Packages;
+
+python.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ numpy ipython ])
+```
+and install it in your profile with
+```
+nix-env -if build.nix
+```
+Now you can use the Python interpreter, as well as the extra packages that you added to the environment.
+
+#### Environment defined in `~/.nixpkgs/config.nix`
+
+If you prefer to, you could also add the environment as a package override to the Nixpkgs set.
+```
+  packageOverrides = pkgs: with pkgs; with python35Packages; {
+    myEnv = python.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ numpy ipython ]);
+  };
+```
+and install it in your profile with
+```
+nix-env -iA nixos.blogEnv
+```
+Note that I'm using the attribute path here.
+
+#### Environment defined in `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix`
+
+For the sake of completeness, here's another example how to install the environment system-wide.
+
+```nix
+environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
+  (python35Packages.python.withPackages (ps: callPackage ../packages/common-python-packages.nix { pythonPackages = ps; }))
+];
+```
+
+### How to solve circular dependencies?
+
+Consider the packages `A` and `B` that depend on each other. When packaging `B`,
+a solution is to override package `A` not to depend on `B` as an input. The same
+should also be done when packaging `A`.
+
+### How to override a Python package?
+
+Recursively updating a package can be done with `pkgs.overridePackages` as explained in the Nixpkgs manual.
+Python attribute sets are created for each interpreter version. We will therefore override the attribute set for the interpreter version we're interested.
+In the following example we change the name of the package `pandas` to `foo`.
+```
+newpkgs = pkgs.overridePackages(self: super: rec {
+  python35Packages = super.python35Packages.override {
+    self = python35Packages // { pandas = python35Packages.pandas.override{name="foo";};};
+  };
+});
+```
+This can be tested with
+```
+with import <nixpkgs> {};
+
+(let
+
+newpkgs = pkgs.overridePackages(self: super: rec {
+  python35Packages = super.python35Packages.override {
+    self = python35Packages // { pandas = python35Packages.pandas.override{name="foo";};};
+  };
+});
+in newpkgs.python35.withPackages (ps: [ps.blaze])
+).env
+```
+A typical use case is to switch to another version of a certain package. For example, in the Nixpkgs repository we have multiple versions of `django` and `scipy`.
+In the following example we use a different version of `scipy`. All packages in `newpkgs` will now use the updated `scipy` version.
+```
+with import <nixpkgs> {};
+
+(let
+
+newpkgs = pkgs.overridePackages(self: super: rec {
+  python35Packages = super.python35Packages.override {
+    self = python35Packages // { scipy = python35Packages.scipy_0_16;};
+  };
+});
+in newpkgs.python35.withPackages (ps: [ps.blaze])
+).env
+```
+The requested package `blaze` depends upon `pandas` which itself depends on `scipy`.
+
+### `python setup.py bdist_wheel` cannot create .whl
+
+Executing `python setup.py bdist_wheel` fails with
+```
+ValueError: ZIP does not support timestamps before 1980
+```
+This is because files are included that depend on items in the Nix store which have a timestamp of, that is, it corresponds to January the 1st, 1970 at 00:00:00. And as the error informs you, ZIP does not support that.
+Fortunately `bdist_wheel` takes into account `SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH`. On Nix this value is set to 1. By setting it to a value correspond to 1980 or later it is possible to build wheels.
+
+Use 1980 as timestamp:
+```
+SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=315532800 python3 setup.py bdist_wheel
+```
+or the current time:
+```
+SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=$(date +%s) python3 setup.py bdist_wheel
+```
+
+### `install_data` / `data_files` problems
+
+If you get the following error:
+
+    could not create '/nix/store/6l1bvljpy8gazlsw2aw9skwwp4pmvyxw-python-2.7.8/etc':
+    Permission denied
+
+This is a [known bug](https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issue/130/install_data-doesnt-respect-prefix) in setuptools.
+Setuptools `install_data` does not respect `--prefix`. An example of such package using the feature is `pkgs/tools/X11/xpra/default.nix`.
+As workaround install it as an extra `preInstall` step:
+
+    ${python.interpreter} setup.py install_data --install-dir=$out --root=$out
+    sed -i '/ = data\_files/d' setup.py
+
+
+###  Rationale of non-existent global site-packages
+
+On most operating systems a global `site-packages` is maintained. This however
+becomes problematic if you want to run multiple Python versions or have multiple
+versions of certain libraries for your projects. Generally, you would solve such
+issues by creating virtual environments using `virtualenv`.
+
+On Nix each package has an isolated dependency tree which, in the case of
+Python, guarantees the right versions of the interpreter and libraries or
+packages are available. There is therefore no need to maintain a global `site-packages`.
+
+If you want to create a Python environment for development, then the recommended
+method is to use `nix-shell`, either with or without the `python.buildEnv`
+function.
+
+
+## Contributing
+
+### Contributing guidelines
+
+Following rules are desired to be respected:
+
+* Make sure package builds for all python interpreters. Use `disabled` argument to `buildPythonPackage` to set unsupported interpreters.
+* If tests need to be disabled for a package, make sure you leave a comment about reasoning.
+* Packages in `pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix` are sorted quasi-alphabetically to avoid merge conflicts.
+* Python libraries are supposed to be in `python-packages.nix` and packaged with `buildPythonPackage`. Python applications live outside of `python-packages.nix` and are packaged with `buildPythonApplication`.

doc/languages-frameworks/qt.xml

@@ -1,74 +1,70 @@
 <section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
          xml:id="sec-language-qt">
- <title>Qt</title>
 
- <para>
-  Qt is a comprehensive desktop and mobile application development toolkit for
-  C++. Legacy support is available for Qt 3 and Qt 4, but all current
-  development uses Qt 5. The Qt 5 packages in Nixpkgs are updated frequently to
-  take advantage of new features, but older versions are typically retained
-  until their support window ends. The most important consideration in
-  packaging Qt-based software is ensuring that each package and all its
-  dependencies use the same version of Qt 5; this consideration motivates most
-  of the tools described below.
- </para>
+<title>Qt</title>
 
- <section xml:id="ssec-qt-libraries">
-  <title>Packaging Libraries for Nixpkgs</title>
+<para>The information in this section applies to Qt 5.5 and later.</para>
 
-  <para>
-   Whenever possible, libraries that use Qt 5 should be built with each
-   available version. Packages providing libraries should be added to the
-   top-level function <varname>mkLibsForQt5</varname>, which is used to build a
-   set of libraries for every Qt 5 version. A special
-   <varname>callPackage</varname> function is used in this scope to ensure that
-   the entire dependency tree uses the same Qt 5 version. Import dependencies
-   unqualified, i.e., <literal>qtbase</literal> not
-   <literal>qt5.qtbase</literal>. <emphasis>Do not</emphasis> import a package
-   set such as <literal>qt5</literal> or <literal>libsForQt5</literal>.
-  </para>
+<para>Qt is an application development toolkit for C++. Although it is
+not a distinct programming language, there are special considerations
+for packaging Qt-based programs and libraries. A small set of tools
+and conventions has grown out of these considerations.</para>
 
-  <para>
-   If a library does not support a particular version of Qt 5, it is best to
-   mark it as broken by setting its <literal>meta.broken</literal> attribute. A
-   package may be marked broken for certain versions by testing the
-   <literal>qtbase.version</literal> attribute, which will always give the
-   current Qt 5 version.
-  </para>
- </section>
+<section xml:id="ssec-qt-libraries"><title>Libraries</title>
 
- <section xml:id="ssec-qt-applications">
-  <title>Packaging Applications for Nixpkgs</title>
+<para>Packages that provide libraries should be listed in
+<varname>qt5LibsFun</varname> so that the library is built with each
+Qt version. A set of packages is provided for each version of Qt; for
+example, <varname>qt5Libs</varname> always provides libraries built
+with the latest version, <varname>qt55Libs</varname> provides
+libraries built with Qt 5.5, and so on. To avoid version conflicts, no
+top-level attributes are created for these packages.</para>
 
-  <para>
-   Call your application expression using
-   <literal>libsForQt5.callPackage</literal> instead of
-   <literal>callPackage</literal>. Import dependencies unqualified, i.e.,
-   <literal>qtbase</literal> not <literal>qt5.qtbase</literal>. <emphasis>Do
-   not</emphasis> import a package set such as <literal>qt5</literal> or
-   <literal>libsForQt5</literal>.
-  </para>
-
-  <para>
-   Qt 5 maintains strict backward compatibility, so it is generally best to
-   build an application package against the latest version using the
-   <varname>libsForQt5</varname> library set. In case a package does not build
-   with the latest Qt version, it is possible to pick a set pinned to a
-   particular version, e.g. <varname>libsForQt55</varname> for Qt 5.5, if that
-   is the latest version the package supports. If a package must be pinned to
-   an older Qt version, be sure to file a bug upstream; because Qt is strictly
-   backwards-compatible, any incompatibility is by definition a bug in the
-   application.
-  </para>
-
-  <para>
-   When testing applications in Nixpkgs, it is a common practice to build the
-   package with <literal>nix-build</literal> and run it using the created
-   symbolic link. This will not work with Qt applications, however, because
-   they have many hard runtime requirements that can only be guaranteed if the
-   package is actually installed. To test a Qt application, install it with
-   <literal>nix-env</literal> or run it inside <literal>nix-shell</literal>.
-  </para>
- </section>
 </section>
+
+<section xml:id="ssec-qt-programs"><title>Programs</title>
+
+<para>Application packages do not need to be built with every Qt
+version. To ensure consistency between the package's dependencies,
+call the package with <literal>qt5Libs.callPackage</literal> instead
+of the usual <literal>callPackage</literal>. An older version may be
+selected in case of incompatibility. For example, to build with Qt
+5.5, call the package with
+<literal>qt55Libs.callPackage</literal>.</para>
+
+<para>Several environment variables must be set at runtime for Qt
+applications to function correctly, including:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+  <listitem><para><envar>QT_PLUGIN_PATH</envar></para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para><envar>QML_IMPORT_PATH</envar></para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para><envar>QML2_IMPORT_PATH</envar></para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para><envar>XDG_DATA_DIRS</envar></para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<para>To ensure that these are set correctly, the program must be wrapped by
+invoking <literal>wrapQtProgram <replaceable>program</replaceable></literal>
+during installation (for example, during
+<literal>fixupPhase</literal>). <literal>wrapQtProgram</literal>
+accepts the same options as <literal>makeWrapper</literal>.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+<section xml:id="ssec-qt-kde"><title>KDE</title>
+
+<para>Many of the considerations above also apply to KDE packages,
+especially the need to set the correct environment variables at
+runtime. To ensure that this is done, invoke <literal>wrapKDEProgram
+<replaceable>program</replaceable></literal> during
+installation. <literal>wrapKDEProgram</literal> also generates a
+<literal>ksycoca</literal> database so that required data and services
+can be found. Like its Qt counterpart,
+<literal>wrapKDEProgram</literal> accepts the same options as
+<literal>makeWrapper</literal>.</para>
+
+</section>
+
+</section>
+

doc/languages-frameworks/r.section.md

@@ -1,120 +0,0 @@
-R packages
-==========
-
-## Installation
-
-Define an environment for R that contains all the libraries that you'd like to
-use by adding the following snippet to your $HOME/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix file:
-
-```nix
-{
-    packageOverrides = super: let self = super.pkgs; in
-    {
-
-        rEnv = super.rWrapper.override {
-            packages = with self.rPackages; [
-                devtools
-                ggplot2
-                reshape2
-                yaml
-                optparse
-                ];
-        };
-    };
-}
-```
-
-Then you can use `nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -iA rEnv` to install it into your user
-profile. The set of available libraries can be discovered by running the
-command `nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -qaP -A rPackages`. The first column from that
-output is the name that has to be passed to rWrapper in the code snipped above.
-
-However, if you'd like to add a file to your project source to make the
-environment available for other contributors, you can create a `default.nix`
-file like so:
-```nix
-let
-  pkgs = import <nixpkgs> {};
-  stdenv = pkgs.stdenv;
-in with pkgs; {
-  myProject = stdenv.mkDerivation {
-    name = "myProject";
-    version = "1";
-    src = if pkgs.lib.inNixShell then null else nix;
-
-    buildInputs = with rPackages; [
-      R
-      ggplot2
-      knitr
-    ];
-  };
-}
-```
-and then run `nix-shell .` to be dropped into a shell with those packages
-available.
-
-## RStudio
-
-RStudio uses a standard set of packages and ignores any custom R
-environments or installed packages you may have.  To create a custom
-environment, see `rstudioWrapper`, which functions similarly to
-`rWrapper`:
-
-```nix
-{
-    packageOverrides = super: let self = super.pkgs; in
-    {
-
-        rstudioEnv = super.rstudioWrapper.override {
-            packages = with self.rPackages; [
-                dplyr
-                ggplot2
-                reshape2
-                ];
-        };
-    };
-}
-```
-
-Then like above, `nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -iA rstudioEnv` will install
-this into your user profile.
-
-Alternatively, you can create a self-contained `shell.nix` without the need to
-modify any configuration files:
-
-```nix
-{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {}
-}:
-
-pkgs.rstudioWrapper.override {
-  packages = with pkgs.rPackages; [ dplyr ggplot2 reshape2 ];
-}
-
-```
-
-Executing `nix-shell` will then drop you into an environment equivalent to the
-one above. If you need additional packages just add them to the list and
-re-enter the shell.
-
-## Updating the package set
-
-```bash
-nix-shell generate-shell.nix
-
-Rscript generate-r-packages.R cran  > cran-packages.nix.new
-mv cran-packages.nix.new cran-packages.nix
-
-Rscript generate-r-packages.R bioc  > bioc-packages.nix.new
-mv bioc-packages.nix.new bioc-packages.nix
-```
-
-`generate-r-packages.R <repo>` reads  `<repo>-packages.nix`, therefor the renaming.
-
-
-## Testing if the Nix-expression could be evaluated
-
-```bash
-nix-build test-evaluation.nix --dry-run
-```
-
-If this exits fine, the expression is ok. If not, you have to edit `default.nix`

doc/languages-frameworks/ruby.xml

@@ -1,19 +1,13 @@
 <section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
          xml:id="sec-language-ruby">
- <title>Ruby</title>
 
- <para>
-  There currently is support to bundle applications that are packaged as Ruby
-  gems. The utility "bundix" allows you to write a
-  <filename>Gemfile</filename>, let bundler create a
-  <filename>Gemfile.lock</filename>, and then convert this into a nix
-  expression that contains all Gem dependencies automatically.
- </para>
+<title>Ruby</title>
 
- <para>
-  For example, to package sensu, we did:
- </para>
+  <para>There currently is support to bundle applications that are packaged as Ruby gems. The utility "bundix" allows you to write a <filename>Gemfile</filename>, let bundler create a <filename>Gemfile.lock</filename>, and then convert
+  this into a nix expression that contains all Gem dependencies automatically.</para>
+
+  <para>For example, to package sensu, we did:</para>
 
 <screen>
 <![CDATA[$ cd pkgs/servers/monitoring
@@ -22,7 +16,8 @@ $ cd sensu
 $ cat > Gemfile
 source 'https://rubygems.org'
 gem 'sensu'
-$ $(nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A bundix --no-out-link)/bin/bundix --magic
+$ nix-shell -p bundler --command "bundler package --path /tmp/vendor/bundle"
+$ $(nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A bundix)/bin/bundix
 $ cat > default.nix
 { lib, bundlerEnv, ruby }:
 
@@ -31,8 +26,9 @@ bundlerEnv rec {
 
   version = (import gemset).sensu.version;
   inherit ruby;
-  # expects Gemfile, Gemfile.lock and gemset.nix in the same directory
-  gemdir = ./.;
+  gemfile = ./Gemfile;
+  lockfile = ./Gemfile.lock;
+  gemset = ./gemset.nix;
 
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "A monitoring framework that aims to be simple, malleable, and scalable";
@@ -44,62 +40,15 @@ bundlerEnv rec {
 }]]>
 </screen>
 
- <para>
-  Please check in the <filename>Gemfile</filename>,
-  <filename>Gemfile.lock</filename> and the <filename>gemset.nix</filename> so
-  future updates can be run easily.
- </para>
+<para>Please check in the <filename>Gemfile</filename>, <filename>Gemfile.lock</filename> and the <filename>gemset.nix</filename> so future updates can be run easily.
+</para>
 
- <para>
-  For tools written in Ruby - i.e. where the desire is to install a package and
-  then execute e.g. <command>rake</command> at the command line, there is an
-  alternative builder called <literal>bundlerApp</literal>. Set up the
-  <filename>gemset.nix</filename> the same way, and then, for example:
- </para>
-
-<screen>
-<![CDATA[{ lib, bundlerApp }:
-
-bundlerApp {
-  pname = "corundum";
-  gemdir = ./.;
-  exes = [ "corundum-skel" ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Tool and libraries for maintaining Ruby gems.";
-    homepage    = https://github.com/nyarly/corundum;
-    license     = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.nyarly ];
-    platforms   = platforms.unix;
-  };
-}]]>
-</screen>
-
- <para>
-  The chief advantage of <literal>bundlerApp</literal> over
-  <literal>bundlerEnv</literal> is the executables introduced in the
-  environment are precisely those selected in the <literal>exes</literal> list,
-  as opposed to <literal>bundlerEnv</literal> which adds all the executables
-  made available by gems in the gemset, which can mean e.g.
-  <command>rspec</command> or <command>rake</command> in unpredictable versions
-  available from various packages.
- </para>
-
- <para>
-  Resulting derivations for both builders also have two helpful attributes,
-  <literal>env</literal> and <literal>wrappedRuby</literal>. The first one
-  allows one to quickly drop into <command>nix-shell</command> with the
-  specified environment present. E.g. <command>nix-shell -A sensu.env</command>
-  would give you an environment with Ruby preset so it has all the libraries
-  necessary for <literal>sensu</literal> in its paths. The second one can be
-  used to make derivations from custom Ruby scripts which have
-  <filename>Gemfile</filename>s with their dependencies specified. It is a
-  derivation with <command>ruby</command> wrapped so it can find all the needed
-  dependencies. For example, to make a derivation <literal>my-script</literal>
-  for a <filename>my-script.rb</filename> (which should be placed in
-  <filename>bin</filename>) you should run <command>bundix</command> as
-  specified above and then use <literal>bundlerEnv</literal> like this:
- </para>
+<para>Resulting derivations also have two helpful items, <literal>env</literal> and <literal>wrapper</literal>. The first one allows one to quickly drop into
+<command>nix-shell</command> with the specified environment present. E.g. <command>nix-shell -A sensu.env</command> would give you an environment with Ruby preset
+so it has all the libraries necessary for <literal>sensu</literal> in its paths. The second one can be used to make derivations from custom Ruby scripts which have
+<filename>Gemfile</filename>s with their dependencies specified. It is a derivation with <command>ruby</command> wrapped so it can find all the needed dependencies.
+For example, to make a derivation <literal>my-script</literal> for a <filename>my-script.rb</filename> (which should be placed in <filename>bin</filename>) you should
+run <command>bundix</command> as specified above and then use <literal>bundlerEnv</literal> lile this:</para>
 
 <programlisting>
 <![CDATA[let env = bundlerEnv {
@@ -113,12 +62,18 @@ bundlerApp {
 
 in stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "my-script";
-  buildInputs = [ env.wrappedRuby ];
+
+  buildInputs = [ env.wrapper ];
+
   script = ./my-script.rb;
+
   buildCommand = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/bin
     install -D -m755 $script $out/bin/my-script
     patchShebangs $out/bin/my-script
   '';
 }]]>
 </programlisting>
+
 </section>
+

doc/languages-frameworks/rust.section.md

@@ -1,393 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Rust
-author: Matthias Beyer
-date: 2017-03-05
----
-
-# User's Guide to the Rust Infrastructure
-
-To install the rust compiler and cargo put
-
-```
-rustc
-cargo
-```
-
-into the `environment.systemPackages` or bring them into
-scope with `nix-shell -p rustc cargo`.
-
-> If you are using NixOS and you want to use rust without a nix expression you
-> probably want to add the following in your `configuration.nix` to build
-> crates with C dependencies.
->
->     environment.systemPackages = [binutils gcc gnumake openssl pkgconfig]
-
-For daily builds (beta and nightly) use either rustup from
-nixpkgs or use the [Rust nightlies
-overlay](#using-the-rust-nightlies-overlay).
-
-## Compiling Rust applications with Cargo
-
-Rust applications are packaged by using the `buildRustPackage` helper from `rustPlatform`:
-
-```
-rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
-  name = "ripgrep-${version}";
-  version = "0.4.0";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "BurntSushi";
-    repo = "ripgrep";
-    rev = "${version}";
-    sha256 = "0y5d1n6hkw85jb3rblcxqas2fp82h3nghssa4xqrhqnz25l799pj";
-  };
-
-  cargoSha256 = "0q68qyl2h6i0qsz82z840myxlnjay8p1w5z7hfyr8fqp7wgwa9cx";
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    description = "A fast line-oriented regex search tool, similar to ag and ack";
-    homepage = https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep;
-    license = licenses.unlicense;
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.tailhook ];
-    platforms = platforms.all;
-  };
-}
-```
-
-`buildRustPackage` requires a `cargoSha256` attribute which is computed over
-all crate sources of this package. Currently it is obtained by inserting a
-fake checksum into the expression and building the package once. The correct
-checksum can be then take from the failed build.
-
-To install crates with nix there is also an experimental project called
-[nixcrates](https://github.com/fractalide/nixcrates).
-
-## Compiling Rust crates using Nix instead of Cargo
-
-### Simple operation
-
-When run, `cargo build` produces a file called `Cargo.lock`,
-containing pinned versions of all dependencies. Nixpkgs contains a
-tool called `carnix` (`nix-env -iA nixos.carnix`), which can be used
-to turn a `Cargo.lock` into a Nix expression.
-
-That Nix expression calls `rustc` directly (hence bypassing Cargo),
-and can be used to compile a crate and all its dependencies. Here is
-an example for a minimal `hello` crate:
-
-
-    $ cargo new hello
-    $ cd hello
-    $ cargo build
-     Compiling hello v0.1.0 (file:///tmp/hello)
-      Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.20 secs
-    $ carnix -o hello.nix --src ./. Cargo.lock --standalone
-    $ nix-build hello.nix -A hello_0_1_0
-
-Now, the file produced by the call to `carnix`, called `hello.nix`, looks like:
-
-```
-# Generated by carnix 0.6.5: carnix -o hello.nix --src ./. Cargo.lock --standalone
-{ lib, buildPlatform, buildRustCrate, fetchgit }:
-let kernel = buildPlatform.parsed.kernel.name;
-    # ... (content skipped)
-in
-rec {
-  hello = f: hello_0_1_0 { features = hello_0_1_0_features { hello_0_1_0 = f; }; };
-  hello_0_1_0_ = { dependencies?[], buildDependencies?[], features?[] }: buildRustCrate {
-    crateName = "hello";
-    version = "0.1.0";
-    authors = [ "pe@pijul.org <pe@pijul.org>" ];
-    src = ./.;
-    inherit dependencies buildDependencies features;
-  };
-  hello_0_1_0 = { features?(hello_0_1_0_features {}) }: hello_0_1_0_ {};
-  hello_0_1_0_features = f: updateFeatures f (rec {
-        hello_0_1_0.default = (f.hello_0_1_0.default or true);
-    }) [ ];
-}
-```
-
-In particular, note that the argument given as `--src` is copied
-verbatim to the source. If we look at a more complicated
-dependencies, for instance by adding a single line `libc="*"` to our
-`Cargo.toml`, we first need to run `cargo build` to update the
-`Cargo.lock`. Then, `carnix` needs to be run again, and produces the
-following nix file:
-
-```
-# Generated by carnix 0.6.5: carnix -o hello.nix --src ./. Cargo.lock --standalone
-{ lib, buildPlatform, buildRustCrate, fetchgit }:
-let kernel = buildPlatform.parsed.kernel.name;
-    # ... (content skipped)
-in
-rec {
-  hello = f: hello_0_1_0 { features = hello_0_1_0_features { hello_0_1_0 = f; }; };
-  hello_0_1_0_ = { dependencies?[], buildDependencies?[], features?[] }: buildRustCrate {
-    crateName = "hello";
-    version = "0.1.0";
-    authors = [ "pe@pijul.org <pe@pijul.org>" ];
-    src = ./.;
-    inherit dependencies buildDependencies features;
-  };
-  libc_0_2_36_ = { dependencies?[], buildDependencies?[], features?[] }: buildRustCrate {
-    crateName = "libc";
-    version = "0.2.36";
-    authors = [ "The Rust Project Developers" ];
-    sha256 = "01633h4yfqm0s302fm0dlba469bx8y6cs4nqc8bqrmjqxfxn515l";
-    inherit dependencies buildDependencies features;
-  };
-  hello_0_1_0 = { features?(hello_0_1_0_features {}) }: hello_0_1_0_ {
-    dependencies = mapFeatures features ([ libc_0_2_36 ]);
-  };
-  hello_0_1_0_features = f: updateFeatures f (rec {
-    hello_0_1_0.default = (f.hello_0_1_0.default or true);
-    libc_0_2_36.default = true;
-  }) [ libc_0_2_36_features ];
-  libc_0_2_36 = { features?(libc_0_2_36_features {}) }: libc_0_2_36_ {
-    features = mkFeatures (features.libc_0_2_36 or {});
-  };
-  libc_0_2_36_features = f: updateFeatures f (rec {
-    libc_0_2_36.default = (f.libc_0_2_36.default or true);
-    libc_0_2_36.use_std =
-      (f.libc_0_2_36.use_std or false) ||
-      (f.libc_0_2_36.default or false) ||
-      (libc_0_2_36.default or false);
-  }) [];
-}
-```
-
-Here, the `libc` crate has no `src` attribute, so `buildRustCrate`
-will fetch it from [crates.io](https://crates.io). A `sha256`
-attribute is still needed for Nix purity.
-
-### Handling external dependencies
-
-Some crates require external libraries. For crates from
-[crates.io](https://crates.io), such libraries can be specified in
-`defaultCrateOverrides` package in nixpkgs itself.
-
-Starting from that file, one can add more overrides, to add features
-or build inputs by overriding the hello crate in a seperate file.
-
-```
-with import <nixpkgs> {};
-((import ./hello.nix).hello {}).override {
-  crateOverrides = defaultCrateOverrides // {
-    hello = attrs: { buildInputs = [ openssl ]; };
-  };
-}
-```
-
-Here, `crateOverrides` is expected to be a attribute set, where the
-key is the crate name without version number and the value a function.
-The function gets all attributes passed to `buildRustCrate` as first
-argument and returns a set that contains all attribute that should be
-overwritten.
-
-For more complicated cases, such as when parts of the crate's
-derivation depend on the the crate's version, the `attrs` argument of
-the override above can be read, as in the following example, which
-patches the derivation:
-
-```
-with import <nixpkgs> {};
-((import ./hello.nix).hello {}).override {
-  crateOverrides = defaultCrateOverrides // {
-    hello = attrs: lib.optionalAttrs (lib.versionAtLeast attrs.version "1.0")  {
-      postPatch = ''
-        substituteInPlace lib/zoneinfo.rs \
-          --replace "/usr/share/zoneinfo" "${tzdata}/share/zoneinfo"
-      '';
-    };
-  };
-}
-```
-
-Another situation is when we want to override a nested
-dependency. This actually works in the exact same way, since the
-`crateOverrides` parameter is forwarded to the crate's
-dependencies. For instance, to override the build inputs for crate
-`libc` in the example above, where `libc` is a dependency of the main
-crate, we could do:
-
-```
-with import <nixpkgs> {};
-((import hello.nix).hello {}).override {
-  crateOverrides = defaultCrateOverrides // {
-    libc = attrs: { buildInputs = []; };
-  };
-}
-```
-
-### Options and phases configuration
-
-Actually, the overrides introduced in the previous section are more
-general. A number of other parameters can be overridden:
-
-- The version of rustc used to compile the crate:
-
-  ```
-  (hello {}).override { rust = pkgs.rust; };
-  ```
-
-- Whether to build in release mode or debug mode (release mode by
-  default):
-
-  ```
-  (hello {}).override { release = false; };
-  ```
-
-- Whether to print the commands sent to rustc when building
-  (equivalent to `--verbose` in cargo:
-
-  ```
-  (hello {}).override { verbose = false; };
-  ```
-
-- Extra arguments to be passed to `rustc`:
-
-  ```
-  (hello {}).override { extraRustcOpts = "-Z debuginfo=2"; };
-  ```
-
-- Phases, just like in any other derivation, can be specified using
-  the following attributes: `preUnpack`, `postUnpack`, `prePatch`,
-  `patches`, `postPatch`, `preConfigure` (in the case of a Rust crate,
-  this is run before calling the "build" script), `postConfigure`
-  (after the "build" script),`preBuild`, `postBuild`, `preInstall` and
-  `postInstall`. As an example, here is how to create a new module
-  before running the build script:
-
-  ```
-  (hello {}).override {
-    preConfigure = ''
-       echo "pub const PATH=\"${hi.out}\";" >> src/path.rs"
-    '';
-  };
-  ```
-
-### Features
-
-One can also supply features switches. For example, if we want to
-compile `diesel_cli` only with the `postgres` feature, and no default
-features, we would write:
-
-```
-(callPackage ./diesel.nix {}).diesel {
-  default = false;
-  postgres = true;
-}
-```
-
-Where `diesel.nix` is the file generated by Carnix, as explained above.
-
-
-## Setting Up `nix-shell`
-Oftentimes you want to develop code from within `nix-shell`. Unfortunately
-`buildRustCrate` does not support common `nix-shell` operations directly
-(see [this issue](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/37945))
-so we will use `stdenv.mkDerivation` instead.
-
-Using the example `hello` project above, we want to do the following:
-- Have access to `cargo` and `rustc`
-- Have the `openssl` library available to a crate through it's _normal_
-  compilation mechanism (`pkg-config`).
-
-A typical `shell.nix` might look like:
-
-```
-with import <nixpkgs> {};
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "rust-env";
-  buildInputs = [
-    rustc cargo
-
-    # Example Additional Dependencies
-    pkgconfig openssl
-  ];
-
-  # Set Environment Variables
-  RUST_BACKTRACE = 1;
-}
-```
-
-You should now be able to run the following:
-```
-$ nix-shell --pure
-$ cargo build
-$ cargo test
-```
-
-### Controlling Rust Version Inside `nix-shell`
-To control your rust version (i.e. use nightly) from within `shell.nix` (or
-other nix expressions) you can use the following `shell.nix`
-
-```
-# Latest Nightly
-with import <nixpkgs> {};
-let src = fetchFromGitHub {
-      owner = "mozilla";
-      repo = "nixpkgs-mozilla";
-      # commit from: 2018-03-27
-      rev = "2945b0b6b2fd19e7d23bac695afd65e320efcebe";
-      sha256 = "034m1dryrzh2lmjvk3c0krgip652dql46w5yfwpvh7gavd3iypyw";
-   };
-in
-with import "${src.out}/rust-overlay.nix" pkgs pkgs;
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "rust-env";
-  buildInputs = [
-    # Note: to use use stable, just replace `nightly` with `stable`
-    latest.rustChannels.nightly.rust
-
-    # Add some extra dependencies from `pkgs`
-    pkgconfig openssl
-  ];
-
-  # Set Environment Variables
-  RUST_BACKTRACE = 1;
-}
-```
-
-Now run:
-```
-$ rustc --version
-rustc 1.26.0-nightly (188e693b3 2018-03-26)
-```
-
-To see that you are using nightly.
-
-
-## Using the Rust nightlies overlay
-
-Mozilla provides an overlay for nixpkgs to bring a nightly version of Rust into scope.
-This overlay can _also_ be used to install recent unstable or stable versions
-of Rust, if desired.
-
-To use this overlay, clone
-[nixpkgs-mozilla](https://github.com/mozilla/nixpkgs-mozilla),
-and create a symbolic link to the file
-[rust-overlay.nix](https://github.com/mozilla/nixpkgs-mozilla/blob/master/rust-overlay.nix)
-in the `~/.config/nixpkgs/overlays` directory.
-
-    $ git clone https://github.com/mozilla/nixpkgs-mozilla.git
-    $ mkdir -p ~/.config/nixpkgs/overlays
-    $ ln -s $(pwd)/nixpkgs-mozilla/rust-overlay.nix ~/.config/nixpkgs/overlays/rust-overlay.nix
-
-The latest version can be installed with the following command:
-
-    $ nix-env -Ai nixos.latest.rustChannels.stable.rust
-
-Or using the attribute with nix-shell:
-
-    $ nix-shell -p nixos.latest.rustChannels.stable.rust
-
-To install the beta or nightly channel, "stable" should be substituted by
-"nightly" or "beta", or
-use the function provided by this overlay to pull a version based on a
-build date.
-
-The overlay automatically updates itself as it uses the same source as
-[rustup](https://www.rustup.rs/).

doc/languages-frameworks/texlive.xml

@@ -1,42 +1,27 @@
 <section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
          xml:id="sec-language-texlive">
- <title>TeX Live</title>
 
- <para>
-  Since release 15.09 there is a new TeX Live packaging that lives entirely
-  under attribute <varname>texlive</varname>.
- </para>
-
- <section>
-  <title>User's guide</title>
+<title>TeX Live</title>
 
+<para>Since release 15.09 there is a new TeX Live packaging that lives entirely under attribute <varname>texlive</varname>.</para>
+<section><title>User's guide</title>
   <itemizedlist>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     For basic usage just pull <varname>texlive.combined.scheme-basic</varname>
-     for an environment with basic LaTeX support.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     It typically won't work to use separately installed packages together.
-     Instead, you can build a custom set of packages like this:
-<programlisting>
+    <listitem><para>
+      For basic usage just pull <varname>texlive.combined.scheme-basic</varname> for an environment with basic LaTeX support.</para></listitem>
+    <listitem><para>
+      It typically won't work to use separately installed packages together.
+      Instead, you can build a custom set of packages like this:
+      <programlisting>
 texlive.combine {
   inherit (texlive) scheme-small collection-langkorean algorithms cm-super;
 }
       </programlisting>
-     There are all the schemes, collections and a few thousand packages, as
-     defined upstream (perhaps with tiny differences).
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     By default you only get executables and files needed during runtime, and a
-     little documentation for the core packages. To change that, you need to
-     add <varname>pkgFilter</varname> function to <varname>combine</varname>.
-<programlisting>
+      There are all the schemes, collections and a few thousand packages, as defined upstream (perhaps with tiny differences).
+    </para></listitem>
+    <listitem><para>
+      By default you only get executables and files needed during runtime, and a little documentation for the core packages.  To change that, you need to add <varname>pkgFilter</varname> function to <varname>combine</varname>.
+      <programlisting>
 texlive.combine {
   # inherit (texlive) whatever-you-want;
   pkgFilter = pkg:
@@ -45,47 +30,30 @@ texlive.combine {
   # there are also other attributes: version, name
 }
       </programlisting>
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     You can list packages e.g. by <command>nix-repl</command>.
-<programlisting>
+    </para></listitem>
+    <listitem><para>
+      You can list packages e.g. by <command>nix-repl</command>.
+      <programlisting>
 $ nix-repl
-nix-repl> :l &lt;nixpkgs>
 nix-repl> texlive.collection-&lt;TAB>
       </programlisting>
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
+    </para></listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
- </section>
-
- <section>
-  <title>Known problems</title>
-
-  <itemizedlist>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Some tools are still missing, e.g. luajittex;
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     some apps aren't packaged/tested yet (asymptote, biber, etc.);
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     feature/bug: when a package is rejected by <varname>pkgFilter</varname>,
-     its dependencies are still propagated;
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     in case of any bugs or feature requests, file a github issue or better a
-     pull request and /cc @vcunat.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-  </itemizedlist>
- </section>
 </section>
+
+<section><title>Known problems</title>
+  <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem><para>
+      Some tools are still missing, e.g. luajittex;</para></listitem>
+    <listitem><para>
+      some apps aren't packaged/tested yet (asymptote, biber, etc.);</para></listitem>
+    <listitem><para>
+      feature/bug: when a package is rejected by <varname>pkgFilter</varname>, its dependencies are still propagated;</para></listitem>
+    <listitem><para>
+      in case of any bugs or feature requests, file a github issue or better a pull request and /cc @vcunat.</para></listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+</section>
+
+
+</section>
+

doc/languages-frameworks/vim.section.md

@@ -1,135 +0,0 @@
----
-title: User's Guide for Vim in Nixpkgs
-author: Marc Weber
-date: 2016-06-25
----
-# User's Guide to Vim Plugins/Addons/Bundles/Scripts in Nixpkgs
-
-You'll get a vim(-your-suffix) in PATH also loading the plugins you want.
-Loading can be deferred; see examples.
-
-Vim packages, VAM (=vim-addon-manager) and Pathogen are supported to load
-packages.
-
-## Custom configuration
-
-Adding custom .vimrc lines can be done using the following code:
-
-```
-vim_configurable.customize {
-  name = "vim-with-plugins";
-
-  vimrcConfig.customRC = ''
-    set hidden
-  '';
-}
-```
-
-## Vim packages
-
-To store you plugins in Vim packages the following example can be used:
-
-```
-vim_configurable.customize {
-  vimrcConfig.packages.myVimPackage = with pkgs.vimPlugins; {
-    # loaded on launch
-    start = [ youcompleteme fugitive ];
-    # manually loadable by calling `:packadd $plugin-name`
-    opt = [ phpCompletion elm-vim ];
-    # To automatically load a plugin when opening a filetype, add vimrc lines like:
-    # autocmd FileType php :packadd phpCompletion
-  }
-};
-```
-
-## VAM
-
-### dependencies by Vim plugins
-
-VAM introduced .json files supporting dependencies without versioning
-assuming that "using latest version" is ok most of the time.
-
-### Example
-
-First create a vim-scripts file having one plugin name per line. Example:
-
-    "tlib"
-    {'name': 'vim-addon-sql'}
-    {'filetype_regex': '\%(vim)$', 'names': ['reload', 'vim-dev-plugin']}
-
-Such vim-scripts file can be read by VAM as well like this:
-
-    call vam#Scripts(expand('~/.vim-scripts'), {})
-
-Create a default.nix file:
-
-    { nixpkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {}, compiler ? "ghc7102" }:
-    nixpkgs.vim_configurable.customize { name = "vim"; vimrcConfig.vam.pluginDictionaries = [ "vim-addon-vim2nix" ]; }
-
-Create a generate.vim file:
-
-    ActivateAddons vim-addon-vim2nix
-    let vim_scripts = "vim-scripts"
-    call nix#ExportPluginsForNix({
-    \  'path_to_nixpkgs': eval('{"'.substitute(substitute(substitute($NIX_PATH, ':', ',', 'g'), '=',':', 'g'), '\([:,]\)', '"\1"',"g").'"}')["nixpkgs"],
-    \  'cache_file': '/tmp/vim2nix-cache',
-    \  'try_catch': 0,
-    \  'plugin_dictionaries': ["vim-addon-manager"]+map(readfile(vim_scripts), 'eval(v:val)')
-    \ })
-
-Then run
-
-    nix-shell -p vimUtils.vim_with_vim2nix --command "vim -c 'source generate.vim'"
-
-You should get a Vim buffer with the nix derivations (output1) and vam.pluginDictionaries (output2).
-You can add your vim to your system's configuration file like this and start it by "vim-my":
-
-    my-vim =
-     let plugins = let inherit (vimUtils) buildVimPluginFrom2Nix; in {
-          copy paste output1 here
-     }; in vim_configurable.customize {
-       name = "vim-my";
-
-       vimrcConfig.vam.knownPlugins = plugins; # optional
-       vimrcConfig.vam.pluginDictionaries = [
-          copy paste output2 here
-       ];
-
-       # Pathogen would be
-       # vimrcConfig.pathogen.knownPlugins = plugins; # plugins
-       # vimrcConfig.pathogen.pluginNames = ["tlib"];
-     };
-
-
-Sample output1:
-
-    "reload" = buildVimPluginFrom2Nix { # created by nix#NixDerivation
-      name = "reload";
-      src = fetchgit {
-        url = "git://github.com/xolox/vim-reload";
-        rev = "0a601a668727f5b675cb1ddc19f6861f3f7ab9e1";
-        sha256 = "0vb832l9yxj919f5hfg6qj6bn9ni57gnjd3bj7zpq7d4iv2s4wdh";
-      };
-      dependencies = ["nim-misc"];
-
-    };
-    [...]
-
-Sample output2:
-
-    [
-      ''vim-addon-manager''
-      ''tlib''
-      { "name" = ''vim-addon-sql''; }
-      { "filetype_regex" = ''\%(vim)$$''; "names" = [ ''reload'' ''vim-dev-plugin'' ]; }
-    ]
-
-
-## Important repositories
-
-- [vim-pi](https://bitbucket.org/vimcommunity/vim-pi) is a plugin repository
-  from VAM plugin manager meant to be used by others as well used by
-
-- [vim2nix](http://github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-vim2nix) which generates the
-  .nix code
-

doc/manual.xml

@@ -1,24 +1,25 @@
 <book xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
       xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
- <info>
-  <title>Nixpkgs Contributors Guide</title>
-  <subtitle>Version <xi:include href=".version" parse="text" />
-  </subtitle>
- </info>
- <xi:include href="introduction.chapter.xml" />
- <xi:include href="quick-start.xml" />
- <xi:include href="stdenv.xml" />
- <xi:include href="multiple-output.xml" />
- <xi:include href="cross-compilation.xml" />
- <xi:include href="configuration.xml" />
- <xi:include href="functions.xml" />
- <xi:include href="meta.xml" />
- <xi:include href="languages-frameworks/index.xml" />
- <xi:include href="platform-notes.xml" />
- <xi:include href="package-notes.xml" />
- <xi:include href="overlays.xml" />
- <xi:include href="coding-conventions.xml" />
- <xi:include href="submitting-changes.xml" />
- <xi:include href="reviewing-contributions.xml" />
- <xi:include href="contributing.xml" />
+
+  <info>
+
+    <title>Nixpkgs Contributors Guide</title>
+
+    <subtitle>Version <xi:include href=".version" parse="text" /></subtitle>
+
+  </info>
+
+  <xi:include href="introduction.xml" />
+  <xi:include href="quick-start.xml" />
+  <xi:include href="stdenv.xml" />
+  <xi:include href="multiple-output.xml" />
+  <xi:include href="configuration.xml" />
+  <xi:include href="functions.xml" />
+  <xi:include href="meta.xml" />
+  <xi:include href="languages-frameworks/index.xml" />
+  <xi:include href="package-notes.xml" />
+  <xi:include href="coding-conventions.xml" />
+  <xi:include href="submitting-changes.xml" />
+  <xi:include href="contributing.xml" />
+
 </book>

doc/meta.xml

@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 <chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
          xml:id="chap-meta">
- <title>Meta-attributes</title>
- <para>
-  Nix packages can declare <emphasis>meta-attributes</emphasis> that contain
-  information about a package such as a description, its homepage, its license,
-  and so on. For instance, the GNU Hello package has a <varname>meta</varname>
-  declaration like this:
+
+<title>Meta-attributes</title>
+
+<para>Nix packages can declare <emphasis>meta-attributes</emphasis>
+that contain information about a package such as a description, its
+homepage, its license, and so on.  For instance, the GNU Hello package
+has a <varname>meta</varname> declaration like this:
+
 <programlisting>
 meta = {
   description = "A program that produces a familiar, friendly greeting";
@@ -20,15 +22,16 @@ meta = {
   platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
 };
 </programlisting>
- </para>
- <para>
-  Meta-attributes are not passed to the builder of the package. Thus, a change
-  to a meta-attribute doesn’t trigger a recompilation of the package. The
-  value of a meta-attribute must be a string.
- </para>
- <para>
-  The meta-attributes of a package can be queried from the command-line using
-  <command>nix-env</command>:
+
+</para>
+
+<para>Meta-attributes are not passed to the builder of the package.
+Thus, a change to a meta-attribute doesn’t trigger a recompilation of
+the package.  The value of a meta-attribute must be a string.</para>
+
+<para>The meta-attributes of a package can be queried from the
+command-line using <command>nix-env</command>:
+
 <screen>
 $ nix-env -qa hello --json
 {
@@ -50,7 +53,7 @@ $ nix-env -qa hello --json
                 "x86_64-linux",
                 "armv5tel-linux",
                 "armv7l-linux",
-                "mips32-linux",
+                "mips64el-linux",
                 "x86_64-darwin",
                 "i686-cygwin",
                 "i686-freebsd",
@@ -67,311 +70,254 @@ $ nix-env -qa hello --json
 
 
 </screen>
-  <command>nix-env</command> knows about the <varname>description</varname>
-  field specifically:
+
+<command>nix-env</command> knows about the
+<varname>description</varname> field specifically:
+
 <screen>
 $ nix-env -qa hello --description
 hello-2.3  A program that produces a familiar, friendly greeting
 </screen>
- </para>
- <section xml:id="sec-standard-meta-attributes">
-  <title>Standard meta-attributes</title>
 
-  <para>
-   It is expected that each meta-attribute is one of the following:
-  </para>
+</para>
+
+
+<section xml:id="sec-standard-meta-attributes"><title>Standard
+meta-attributes</title>
+
+<para>It is expected that each meta-attribute is one of the following:</para>
+
+<variablelist>
+
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term><varname>description</varname></term>
+    <listitem><para>A short (one-line) description of the package.
+    This is shown by <command>nix-env -q --description</command> and
+    also on the Nixpkgs release pages.</para>
+
+    <para>Don’t include a period at the end.  Don’t include newline
+    characters.  Capitalise the first character.  For brevity, don’t
+    repeat the name of package — just describe what it does.</para>
+
+    <para>Wrong: <literal>"libpng is a library that allows you to decode PNG images."</literal></para>
+
+    <para>Right: <literal>"A library for decoding PNG images"</literal></para>
 
-  <variablelist>
-   <varlistentry>
-    <term>
-     <varname>description</varname>
-    </term>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      A short (one-line) description of the package. This is shown by
-      <command>nix-env -q --description</command> and also on the Nixpkgs
-      release pages.
-     </para>
-     <para>
-      Don’t include a period at the end. Don’t include newline characters.
-      Capitalise the first character. For brevity, don’t repeat the name of
-      package — just describe what it does.
-     </para>
-     <para>
-      Wrong: <literal>"libpng is a library that allows you to decode PNG
-      images."</literal>
-     </para>
-     <para>
-      Right: <literal>"A library for decoding PNG images"</literal>
-     </para>
     </listitem>
-   </varlistentry>
-   <varlistentry>
-    <term>
-     <varname>longDescription</varname>
-    </term>
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term><varname>longDescription</varname></term>
+    <listitem><para>An arbitrarily long description of the
+    package.</para></listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term><varname>branch</varname></term>
+    <listitem><para>Release branch. Used to specify that a package is not
+    going to receive updates that are not in this branch; for example, Linux
+    kernel 3.0 is supposed to be updated to 3.0.X, not 3.1.</para></listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term><varname>homepage</varname></term>
+    <listitem><para>The package’s homepage.  Example:
+    <literal>http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/</literal></para></listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term><varname>downloadPage</varname></term>
+    <listitem><para>The page where a link to the current version can be found.  Example:
+    <literal>http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hello/</literal></para></listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term><varname>license</varname></term>
     <listitem>
-     <para>
-      An arbitrarily long description of the package.
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-   </varlistentry>
-   <varlistentry>
-    <term>
-     <varname>branch</varname>
-    </term>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      Release branch. Used to specify that a package is not going to receive
-      updates that are not in this branch; for example, Linux kernel 3.0 is
-      supposed to be updated to 3.0.X, not 3.1.
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-   </varlistentry>
-   <varlistentry>
-    <term>
-     <varname>homepage</varname>
-    </term>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      The package’s homepage. Example:
-      <literal>http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/</literal>
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-   </varlistentry>
-   <varlistentry>
-    <term>
-     <varname>downloadPage</varname>
-    </term>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      The page where a link to the current version can be found. Example:
-      <literal>http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hello/</literal>
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-   </varlistentry>
-   <varlistentry>
-    <term>
-     <varname>license</varname>
-    </term>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      The license, or licenses, for the package. One from the attribute set
-      defined in
-      <link
+      <para>
+        The license, or licenses, for the package. One from the attribute set
+        defined in <link
           xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/licenses.nix">
-      <filename>nixpkgs/lib/licenses.nix</filename></link>. At this moment
-      using both a list of licenses and a single license is valid. If the
-      license field is in the form of a list representation, then it means that
-      parts of the package are licensed differently. Each license should
-      preferably be referenced by their attribute. The non-list attribute value
-      can also be a space delimited string representation of the contained
-      attribute shortNames or spdxIds. The following are all valid examples:
-      <itemizedlist>
-       <listitem>
-        <para>
-         Single license referenced by attribute (preferred)
-         <literal>stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3</literal>.
-        </para>
-       </listitem>
-       <listitem>
-        <para>
-         Single license referenced by its attribute shortName (frowned upon)
-         <literal>"gpl3"</literal>.
-        </para>
-       </listitem>
-       <listitem>
-        <para>
-         Single license referenced by its attribute spdxId (frowned upon)
-         <literal>"GPL-3.0"</literal>.
-        </para>
-       </listitem>
-       <listitem>
-        <para>
-         Multiple licenses referenced by attribute (preferred) <literal>with
-         stdenv.lib.licenses; [ asl20 free ofl ]</literal>.
-        </para>
-       </listitem>
-       <listitem>
-        <para>
-         Multiple licenses referenced as a space delimited string of attribute
-         shortNames (frowned upon) <literal>"asl20 free ofl"</literal>.
-        </para>
-       </listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-      For details, see <xref linkend='sec-meta-license'/>.
-     </para>
+          <filename>nixpkgs/lib/licenses.nix</filename></link>. At this moment
+        using both a list of licenses and a single license is valid. If the
+        license field is in the form of a list representation, then it means
+        that parts of the package are licensed differently.  Each license
+        should preferably be referenced by their attribute. The non-list
+        attribute value can also be a space delimited string representation of
+        the contained attribute shortNames or spdxIds. The following are all valid
+        examples:
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem><para>Single license referenced by attribute (preferred)
+              <literal>stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3</literal>.
+          </para></listitem>
+          <listitem><para>Single license referenced by its attribute shortName (frowned upon)
+              <literal>"gpl3"</literal>.
+          </para></listitem>
+          <listitem><para>Single license referenced by its attribute spdxId (frowned upon)
+              <literal>"GPL-3.0"</literal>.
+          </para></listitem>
+          <listitem><para>Multiple licenses referenced by attribute (preferred)
+              <literal>with stdenv.lib.licenses; [ asl20 free ofl ]</literal>.
+          </para></listitem>
+          <listitem><para>Multiple licenses referenced as a space delimited string of attribute shortNames (frowned upon)
+              <literal>"asl20 free ofl"</literal>.
+          </para></listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+        For details, see <xref linkend='sec-meta-license'/>.
+      </para>
     </listitem>
-   </varlistentry>
-   <varlistentry>
-    <term>
-     <varname>maintainers</varname>
-    </term>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      A list of names and e-mail addresses of the maintainers of this Nix
-      expression. If you would like to be a maintainer of a package, you may
-      want to add yourself to
-      <link
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term><varname>maintainers</varname></term>
+    <listitem><para>A list of names and e-mail addresses of the
+    maintainers of this Nix expression. If
+    you would like to be a maintainer of a package, you may want to add
+    yourself to <link
     xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/maintainers.nix"><filename>nixpkgs/lib/maintainers.nix</filename></link>
-      and write something like <literal>[ stdenv.lib.maintainers.alice
-      stdenv.lib.maintainers.bob ]</literal>.
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-   </varlistentry>
-   <varlistentry>
-    <term>
-     <varname>priority</varname>
-    </term>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      The <emphasis>priority</emphasis> of the package, used by
-      <command>nix-env</command> to resolve file name conflicts between
-      packages. See the Nix manual page for <command>nix-env</command> for
-      details. Example: <literal>"10"</literal> (a low-priority package).
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-   </varlistentry>
-   <varlistentry>
-    <term>
-     <varname>platforms</varname>
-    </term>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      The list of Nix platform types on which the package is supported. Hydra
-      builds packages according to the platform specified. If no platform is
-      specified, the package does not have prebuilt binaries. An example is:
+    and write something like <literal>[ stdenv.lib.maintainers.alice
+    stdenv.lib.maintainers.bob ]</literal>.</para></listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term><varname>priority</varname></term>
+    <listitem><para>The <emphasis>priority</emphasis> of the package,
+    used by <command>nix-env</command> to resolve file name conflicts
+    between packages.  See the Nix manual page for
+    <command>nix-env</command> for details.  Example:
+    <literal>"10"</literal> (a low-priority
+    package).</para></listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term><varname>platforms</varname></term>
+    <listitem><para>The list of Nix platform types on which the
+    package is supported. Hydra builds packages according to the
+    platform specified. If no platform is specified, the package does
+    not have prebuilt binaries. An example is:
+
 <programlisting>
 meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
 </programlisting>
-      Attribute Set <varname>stdenv.lib.platforms</varname> defines
-      <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/systems/doubles.nix">
-      various common lists</link> of platforms types.
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-   </varlistentry>
-   <varlistentry>
-    <term>
-     <varname>hydraPlatforms</varname>
-    </term>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      The list of Nix platform types for which the Hydra instance at
-      <literal>hydra.nixos.org</literal> will build the package. (Hydra is the
-      Nix-based continuous build system.) It defaults to the value of
-      <varname>meta.platforms</varname>. Thus, the only reason to set
-      <varname>meta.hydraPlatforms</varname> is if you want
-      <literal>hydra.nixos.org</literal> to build the package on a subset of
-      <varname>meta.platforms</varname>, or not at all, e.g.
+
+    Attribute Set <varname>stdenv.lib.platforms</varname> in
+    <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/platforms.nix">
+    <filename>nixpkgs/lib/platforms.nix</filename></link> defines various common
+    lists of platforms types.
+    </para></listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term><varname>hydraPlatforms</varname></term>
+    <listitem><para>The list of Nix platform types for which the Hydra
+    instance at <literal>hydra.nixos.org</literal> will build the
+    package.  (Hydra is the Nix-based continuous build system.)  It
+    defaults to the value of <varname>meta.platforms</varname>.  Thus,
+    the only reason to set <varname>meta.hydraPlatforms</varname> is
+    if you want <literal>hydra.nixos.org</literal> to build the
+    package on a subset of <varname>meta.platforms</varname>, or not
+    at all, e.g.
+
 <programlisting>
 meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
 meta.hydraPlatforms = [];
 </programlisting>
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-   </varlistentry>
-   <varlistentry>
-    <term>
-     <varname>broken</varname>
-    </term>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      If set to <literal>true</literal>, the package is marked as “broken”,
-      meaning that it won’t show up in <literal>nix-env -qa</literal>, and
-      cannot be built or installed. Such packages should be removed from
-      Nixpkgs eventually unless they are fixed.
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-   </varlistentry>
-   <varlistentry>
-    <term>
-     <varname>updateWalker</varname>
-    </term>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      If set to <literal>true</literal>, the package is tested to be updated
-      correctly by the <literal>update-walker.sh</literal> script without
-      additional settings. Such packages have <varname>meta.version</varname>
-      set and their homepage (or the page specified by
-      <varname>meta.downloadPage</varname>) contains a direct link to the
-      package tarball.
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-   </varlistentry>
-  </variablelist>
- </section>
- <section xml:id="sec-meta-license">
-  <title>Licenses</title>
 
-  <para>
-   The <varname>meta.license</varname> attribute should preferrably contain a
-   value from <varname>stdenv.lib.licenses</varname> defined in
-   <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/licenses.nix">
-   <filename>nixpkgs/lib/licenses.nix</filename></link>, or in-place license
-   description of the same format if the license is unlikely to be useful in
-   another expression.
-  </para>
+    </para></listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term><varname>broken</varname></term>
+    <listitem><para>If set to <literal>true</literal>, the package is
+    marked as “broken”, meaning that it won’t show up in
+    <literal>nix-env -qa</literal>, and cannot be built or installed.
+    Such packages should be removed from Nixpkgs eventually unless
+    they are fixed.</para></listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term><varname>updateWalker</varname></term>
+    <listitem><para>If set to <literal>true</literal>, the package is
+    tested to be updated correctly by the <literal>update-walker.sh</literal>
+    script without additional settings. Such packages have
+    <varname>meta.version</varname> set and their homepage (or
+    the page specified by <varname>meta.downloadPage</varname>) contains
+    a direct link to the package tarball.</para></listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+
+</section>
+
+
+<section xml:id="sec-meta-license"><title>Licenses</title>
+
+<para>The <varname>meta.license</varname> attribute should preferrably contain
+a value from <varname>stdenv.lib.licenses</varname> defined in
+<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/licenses.nix">
+<filename>nixpkgs/lib/licenses.nix</filename></link>,
+or in-place license description of the same format if the license is
+unlikely to be useful in another expression.</para>
+
+<para>Although it's typically better to indicate the specific license,
+a few generic options are available:
+
+<variablelist>
+
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term><varname>stdenv.lib.licenses.free</varname>,
+    <varname>"free"</varname></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Catch-all for free software licenses not listed
+    above.</para></listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term><varname>stdenv.lib.licenses.unfreeRedistributable</varname>,
+    <varname>"unfree-redistributable"</varname></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Unfree package that can be redistributed in binary
+    form. That is, it’s legal to redistribute the
+    <emphasis>output</emphasis> of the derivation.  This means that
+    the package can be included in the Nixpkgs
+    channel.</para>
+
+    <para>Sometimes proprietary software can only be redistributed
+    unmodified. Make sure the builder doesn’t actually modify the
+    original binaries; otherwise we’re breaking the license.  For
+    instance, the NVIDIA X11 drivers can be redistributed unmodified,
+    but our builder applies <command>patchelf</command> to make them
+    work. Thus, its license is <varname>"unfree"</varname> and it
+    cannot be included in the Nixpkgs channel.</para></listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term><varname>stdenv.lib.licenses.unfree</varname>,
+    <varname>"unfree"</varname></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Unfree package that cannot be redistributed. You
+    can build it yourself, but you cannot redistribute the output of
+    the derivation. Thus it cannot be included in the Nixpkgs
+    channel.</para></listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term><varname>stdenv.lib.licenses.unfreeRedistributableFirmware</varname>,
+    <varname>"unfree-redistributable-firmware"</varname></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>This package supplies unfree, redistributable
+    firmware.  This is a separate value from
+    <varname>unfree-redistributable</varname> because not everybody
+    cares whether firmware is free.</para></listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</para>
+
+
+</section>
+
 
-  <para>
-   Although it's typically better to indicate the specific license, a few
-   generic options are available:
-   <variablelist>
-    <varlistentry>
-     <term>
-      <varname>stdenv.lib.licenses.free</varname>, <varname>"free"</varname>
-     </term>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       Catch-all for free software licenses not listed above.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
-    <varlistentry>
-     <term>
-      <varname>stdenv.lib.licenses.unfreeRedistributable</varname>, <varname>"unfree-redistributable"</varname>
-     </term>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       Unfree package that can be redistributed in binary form. That is, it’s
-       legal to redistribute the <emphasis>output</emphasis> of the derivation.
-       This means that the package can be included in the Nixpkgs channel.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-       Sometimes proprietary software can only be redistributed unmodified.
-       Make sure the builder doesn’t actually modify the original binaries;
-       otherwise we’re breaking the license. For instance, the NVIDIA X11
-       drivers can be redistributed unmodified, but our builder applies
-       <command>patchelf</command> to make them work. Thus, its license is
-       <varname>"unfree"</varname> and it cannot be included in the Nixpkgs
-       channel.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
-    <varlistentry>
-     <term>
-      <varname>stdenv.lib.licenses.unfree</varname>, <varname>"unfree"</varname>
-     </term>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       Unfree package that cannot be redistributed. You can build it yourself,
-       but you cannot redistribute the output of the derivation. Thus it cannot
-       be included in the Nixpkgs channel.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
-    <varlistentry>
-     <term>
-      <varname>stdenv.lib.licenses.unfreeRedistributableFirmware</varname>, <varname>"unfree-redistributable-firmware"</varname>
-     </term>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       This package supplies unfree, redistributable firmware. This is a
-       separate value from <varname>unfree-redistributable</varname> because
-       not everybody cares whether firmware is free.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
-   </variablelist>
-  </para>
- </section>
 </chapter>

doc/multiple-output.xml

@@ -5,319 +5,87 @@
 <chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
          xml:id="chap-multiple-output">
- <title>Multiple-output packages</title>
- <section>
-  <title>Introduction</title>
 
-  <para>
-   The Nix language allows a derivation to produce multiple outputs, which is
-   similar to what is utilized by other Linux distribution packaging systems.
-   The outputs reside in separate nix store paths, so they can be mostly
-   handled independently of each other, including passing to build inputs,
-   garbage collection or binary substitution. The exception is that building
-   from source always produces all the outputs.
-  </para>
+<title>Multiple-output packages</title>
 
-  <para>
-   The main motivation is to save disk space by reducing runtime closure sizes;
-   consequently also sizes of substituted binaries get reduced. Splitting can
-   be used to have more granular runtime dependencies, for example the typical
-   reduction is to split away development-only files, as those are typically
-   not needed during runtime. As a result, closure sizes of many packages can
-   get reduced to a half or even much less.
-  </para>
-
-  <note>
-   <para>
-    The reduction effects could be instead achieved by building the parts in
-    completely separate derivations. That would often additionally reduce
-    build-time closures, but it tends to be much harder to write such
-    derivations, as build systems typically assume all parts are being built at
-    once. This compromise approach of single source package producing multiple
-    binary packages is also utilized often by rpm and deb.
-   </para>
-  </note>
- </section>
- <section>
-  <title>Installing a split package</title>
-
-  <para>
-   When installing a package via <varname>systemPackages</varname> or
-   <command>nix-env</command> you have several options:
-  </para>
+<section><title>Introduction</title>
+  <para>The Nix language allows a derivation to produce multiple outputs, which is similar to what is utilized by other Linux distribution packaging systems.  The outputs reside in separate nix store paths, so they can be mostly handled independently of each other, including passing to build inputs, garbage collection or binary substitution.  The exception is that building from source always produces all the outputs.</para>
+  <para>The main motivation is to save disk space by reducing runtime closure sizes; consequently also sizes of substituted binaries get reduced.  Splitting can be used to have more granular runtime dependencies, for example the typical reduction is to split away development-only files, as those are typically not needed during runtime.  As a result, closure sizes of many packages can get reduced to a half or even much less.</para>
+  <note><para>The reduction effects could be instead achieved by building the parts in completely separate derivations.  That would often additionally reduce build-time closures, but it tends to be much harder to write such derivations, as build systems typically assume all parts are being built at once.  This compromise approach of single source package producing multiple binary packages is also utilized often by rpm and deb.</para></note>
+</section>
 
+<section><title>Installing a split package</title>
+  <para>When installing a package via <varname>systemPackages</varname> or <command>nix-env</command> you have several options:</para>
+  <warning><para>Currently <command>nix-env</command> almost always installs all outputs until https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/815 gets merged.</para></warning>
   <itemizedlist>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     You can install particular outputs explicitly, as each is available in the
-     Nix language as an attribute of the package. The
-     <varname>outputs</varname> attribute contains a list of output names.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     You can let it use the default outputs. These are handled by
-     <varname>meta.outputsToInstall</varname> attribute that contains a list of
-     output names.
-    </para>
-    <para>
-     TODO: more about tweaking the attribute, etc.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     NixOS provides configuration option
-     <varname>environment.extraOutputsToInstall</varname> that allows adding
-     extra outputs of <varname>environment.systemPackages</varname> atop the
-     default ones. It's mainly meant for documentation and debug symbols, and
-     it's also modified by specific options.
-    </para>
-    <note>
-     <para>
-      At this moment there is no similar configurability for packages installed
-      by <command>nix-env</command>. You can still use approach from
-      <xref linkend="sec-modify-via-packageOverrides" /> to override
-      <varname>meta.outputsToInstall</varname> attributes, but that's a rather
-      inconvenient way.
-     </para>
-    </note>
-   </listitem>
+    <listitem><para>You can install particular outputs explicitly, as each is available in the Nix language as an attribute of the package.  The <varname>outputs</varname> attribute contains a list of output names.</para></listitem>
+    <listitem><para>You can let it use the default outputs.  These are handled by <varname>meta.outputsToInstall</varname> attribute that contains a list of output names.</para>
+      <para>TODO: more about tweaking the attribute, etc.</para></listitem>
+    <listitem><para>NixOS provides configuration option <varname>environment.extraOutputsToInstall</varname> that allows adding extra outputs of <varname>environment.systemPackages</varname> atop the default ones.  It's mainly meant for documentation and debug symbols, and it's also modified by specific options.</para>
+      <note><para>At this moment there is no similar configurability for packages installed by <command>nix-env</command>.  You can still use approach from <xref linkend="sec-modify-via-packageOverrides" /> to override <varname>meta.outputsToInstall</varname> attributes, but that's a rather inconvenient way.</para></note>
+    </listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
- </section>
- <section>
-  <title>Using a split package</title>
+</section>
 
-  <para>
-   In the Nix language the individual outputs can be reached explicitly as
-   attributes, e.g. <varname>coreutils.info</varname>, but the typical case is
-   just using packages as build inputs.
-  </para>
+<section><title>Using a split package</title>
+  <para>In the Nix language the individual outputs can be reached explicitly as attributes, e.g. <varname>coreutils.info</varname>, but the typical case is just using packages as build inputs.</para>
+  <para>When a multiple-output derivation gets into a build input of another derivation, the first output is added (<varname>.dev</varname> by convention) and also <varname>propagatedBuildOutputs</varname> of that package which by default contain <varname>$outputBin</varname> and <varname>$outputLib</varname>. (See <xref linkend="multiple-output-file-type-groups" />.)</para>
+</section>
 
-  <para>
-   When a multiple-output derivation gets into a build input of another
-   derivation, the <varname>dev</varname> output is added if it exists,
-   otherwise the first output is added. In addition to that,
-   <varname>propagatedBuildOutputs</varname> of that package which by default
-   contain <varname>$outputBin</varname> and <varname>$outputLib</varname> are
-   also added. (See <xref linkend="multiple-output-file-type-groups" />.)
-  </para>
- </section>
- <section>
-  <title>Writing a split derivation</title>
 
-  <para>
-   Here you find how to write a derivation that produces multiple outputs.
-  </para>
+<section><title>Writing a split derivation</title>
+  <para>Here you find how to write a derivation that produces multiple outputs.</para>
+  <para>In nixpkgs there is a framework supporting multiple-output derivations. It tries to cover most cases by default behavior.  You can find the source separated in &lt;<filename>nixpkgs/pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/multiple-outputs.sh</filename>&gt;; it's relatively well-readable.  The whole machinery is triggered by defining the <varname>outputs</varname> attribute to contain the list of desired output names (strings).</para>
+  <programlisting>outputs = [ "dev" "out" "bin" "doc" ];</programlisting>
+  <para>Often such a single line is enough.  For each output an equally named environment variable is passed to the builder and contains the path in nix store for that output.  By convention, the first output should usually be <varname>dev</varname>; typically you also want to have the main <varname>out</varname> output, as it catches any files that didn't get elsewhere.</para>
 
-  <para>
-   In nixpkgs there is a framework supporting multiple-output derivations. It
-   tries to cover most cases by default behavior. You can find the source
-   separated in
-   &lt;<filename>nixpkgs/pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/multiple-outputs.sh</filename>&gt;;
-   it's relatively well-readable. The whole machinery is triggered by defining
-   the <varname>outputs</varname> attribute to contain the list of desired
-   output names (strings).
-  </para>
-
-<programlisting>outputs = [ "bin" "dev" "out" "doc" ];</programlisting>
-
-  <para>
-   Often such a single line is enough. For each output an equally named
-   environment variable is passed to the builder and contains the path in nix
-   store for that output. Typically you also want to have the main
-   <varname>out</varname> output, as it catches any files that didn't get
-   elsewhere.
-  </para>
-
-  <note>
-   <para>
-    There is a special handling of the <varname>debug</varname> output,
-    described at <xref linkend="stdenv-separateDebugInfo" />.
-   </para>
-  </note>
-
-  <section xml:id="multiple-output-file-binaries-first-convention">
-   <title><quote>Binaries first</quote></title>
-
-   <para>
-    A commonly adopted convention in <literal>nixpkgs</literal> is that
-    executables provided by the package are contained within its first output.
-    This convention allows the dependent packages to reference the executables
-    provided by packages in a uniform manner. For instance, provided with the
-    knowledge that the <literal>perl</literal> package contains a
-    <literal>perl</literal> executable it can be referenced as
-    <literal>${pkgs.perl}/bin/perl</literal> within a Nix derivation that needs
-    to execute a Perl script.
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-    The <literal>glibc</literal> package is a deliberate single exception to
-    the <quote>binaries first</quote> convention. The <literal>glibc</literal>
-    has <literal>libs</literal> as its first output allowing the libraries
-    provided by <literal>glibc</literal> to be referenced directly (e.g.
-    <literal>${stdenv.glibc}/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2</literal>). The
-    executables provided by <literal>glibc</literal> can be accessed via its
-    <literal>bin</literal> attribute (e.g.
-    <literal>${stdenv.glibc.bin}/bin/ldd</literal>).
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-    The reason for why <literal>glibc</literal> deviates from the convention is
-    because referencing a library provided by <literal>glibc</literal> is a
-    very common operation among Nix packages. For instance, third-party
-    executables packaged by Nix are typically patched and relinked with the
-    relevant version of <literal>glibc</literal> libraries from Nix packages
-    (please see the documentation on
-    <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/patchelf.html">patchelf</link> for more
-    details).
-   </para>
-  </section>
+  <note><para>There is a special handling of the <varname>debug</varname> output, described at <xref linkend="stdenv-separateDebugInfo" />.</para></note>
 
   <section xml:id="multiple-output-file-type-groups">
-   <title>File type groups</title>
-
-   <para>
-    The support code currently recognizes some particular kinds of outputs and
-    either instructs the build system of the package to put files into their
-    desired outputs or it moves the files during the fixup phase. Each group of
-    file types has an <varname>outputFoo</varname> variable specifying the
-    output name where they should go. If that variable isn't defined by the
-    derivation writer, it is guessed &ndash; a default output name is defined,
-    falling back to other possibilities if the output isn't defined.
-   </para>
-
-   <variablelist>
-    <varlistentry>
-     <term>
-      <varname> $outputDev</varname>
-     </term>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       is for development-only files. These include C(++) headers, pkg-config,
-       cmake and aclocal files. They go to <varname>dev</varname> or
-       <varname>out</varname> by default.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
-    <varlistentry>
-     <term>
-      <varname> $outputBin</varname>
-     </term>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       is meant for user-facing binaries, typically residing in bin/. They go
-       to <varname>bin</varname> or <varname>out</varname> by default.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
-    <varlistentry>
-     <term>
-      <varname> $outputLib</varname>
-     </term>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       is meant for libraries, typically residing in <filename>lib/</filename>
-       and <filename>libexec/</filename>. They go to <varname>lib</varname> or
-       <varname>out</varname> by default.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
-    <varlistentry>
-     <term>
-      <varname> $outputDoc</varname>
-     </term>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       is for user documentation, typically residing in
-       <filename>share/doc/</filename>. It goes to <varname>doc</varname> or
-       <varname>out</varname> by default.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
-    <varlistentry>
-     <term>
-      <varname> $outputDevdoc</varname>
-     </term>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       is for <emphasis>developer</emphasis> documentation. Currently we count
-       gtk-doc and devhelp books in there. It goes to <varname>devdoc</varname>
-       or is removed (!) by default. This is because e.g. gtk-doc tends to be
-       rather large and completely unused by nixpkgs users.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
-    <varlistentry>
-     <term>
-      <varname> $outputMan</varname>
-     </term>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       is for man pages (except for section 3). They go to
-       <varname>man</varname> or <varname>$outputBin</varname> by default.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
-    <varlistentry>
-     <term>
-      <varname> $outputDevman</varname>
-     </term>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       is for section 3 man pages. They go to <varname>devman</varname> or
-       <varname>$outputMan</varname> by default.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
-    <varlistentry>
-     <term>
-      <varname> $outputInfo</varname>
-     </term>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       is for info pages. They go to <varname>info</varname> or
-       <varname>$outputBin</varname> by default.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
-   </variablelist>
+    <title>File type groups</title>
+    <para>The support code currently recognizes some particular kinds of outputs and either instructs the build system of the package to put files into their desired outputs or it moves the files during the fixup phase.  Each group of file types has an <varname>outputFoo</varname> variable specifying the output name where they should go.  If that variable isn't defined by the derivation writer, it is guessed &ndash; a default output name is defined, falling back to other possibilities if the output isn't defined.</para>
+    <variablelist>
+      <varlistentry><term><varname>
+         $outputDev</varname></term><listitem><para>
+         is for development-only files. These include C(++) headers, pkg-config, cmake and aclocal files.  They go to <varname>dev</varname> or <varname>out</varname> by default.
+        </para></listitem></varlistentry>
+      <varlistentry><term><varname>
+        $outputBin</varname></term><listitem><para>
+        is meant for user-facing binaries, typically residing in bin/.  They go to <varname>bin</varname> or <varname>out</varname> by default.
+        </para></listitem></varlistentry>
+      <varlistentry><term><varname>
+        $outputLib</varname></term><listitem><para>
+        is meant for libraries, typically residing in <filename>lib/</filename> and <filename>libexec/</filename>.  They go to <varname>lib</varname> or <varname>out</varname> by default.
+        </para></listitem></varlistentry>
+      <varlistentry><term><varname>
+        $outputDoc</varname></term><listitem><para>
+        is for user documentation, typically residing in <filename>share/doc/</filename>.  It goes to <varname>doc</varname> or <varname>out</varname> by default.
+        </para></listitem></varlistentry>
+      <varlistentry><term><varname>
+        $outputDocdev</varname></term><listitem><para>
+        is for <emphasis>developer</emphasis> documentation.  Currently we count gtk-doc and man3 pages in there.  It goes to <varname>docdev</varname> or is removed (!) by default.  This is because e.g. gtk-doc tends to be rather large and completely unused by nixpkgs users.
+        </para></listitem></varlistentry>
+      <varlistentry><term><varname>
+        $outputMan</varname></term><listitem><para>
+        is for man pages (except for section 3). They go to <varname>man</varname> or <varname>doc</varname> or <varname>$outputBin</varname> by default.
+        </para></listitem></varlistentry>
+      <varlistentry><term><varname>
+        $outputInfo</varname></term><listitem><para>
+        is for info pages. They go to <varname>info</varname> or <varname>doc</varname> or <varname>$outputMan</varname> by default.
+        </para></listitem></varlistentry>
+    </variablelist>
   </section>
 
-  <section>
-   <title>Common caveats</title>
-
-   <itemizedlist>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      Some configure scripts don't like some of the parameters passed by
-      default by the framework, e.g. <literal>--docdir=/foo/bar</literal>. You
-      can disable this by setting <literal>setOutputFlags = false;</literal>.
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      The outputs of a single derivation can retain references to each other,
-      but note that circular references are not allowed. (And each
-      strongly-connected component would act as a single output anyway.)
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      Most of split packages contain their core functionality in libraries.
-      These libraries tend to refer to various kind of data that typically gets
-      into <varname>out</varname>, e.g. locale strings, so there is often no
-      advantage in separating the libraries into <varname>lib</varname>, as
-      keeping them in <varname>out</varname> is easier.
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      Some packages have hidden assumptions on install paths, which complicates
-      splitting.
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-   </itemizedlist>
+  <section><title>Common caveats</title>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem><para>Some configure scripts don't like some of the parameters passed by default by the framework, e.g. <literal>--docdir=/foo/bar</literal>.  You can disable this by setting <literal>setOutputFlags = false;</literal>.</para></listitem>
+      <listitem><para>The outputs of a single derivation can retain references to each other, but note that circular references are not allowed.  (And each strongly-connected component would act as a single output anyway.)</para></listitem>
+      <listitem><para>Most of split packages contain their core functionality in libraries.  These libraries tend to refer to various kind of data that typically gets into <varname>out</varname>, e.g. locale strings, so there is often no advantage in separating the libraries into <varname>lib</varname>, as keeping them in <varname>out</varname> is easier.</para></listitem>
+      <listitem><para>Some packages have hidden assumptions on install paths, which complicates splitting.</para></listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
   </section>
- </section>
-<!--Writing a split derivation-->
+
+</section><!--Writing a split derivation-->
+
 </chapter>
+

doc/old/cross.txt

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   builder = ./builder.sh;
   src = fetchurl {
     url = http://ftp.nluug.nl/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.16.1.tar.bz2;
-    sha256 = "1ian3kwh2vg6hr3ymrv48s04gijs539vzrq62xr76bxbhbwnz2np";
+    md5 = "6a9d529efb285071dad10e1f3d2b2967";
   };
   inherit noSysDirs;
   configureFlags = "--target=arm-linux";
@@ -81,11 +81,11 @@ Step 2: build kernel headers for the target architecture
 assert stdenv.system == "i686-linux";
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "linux-headers-2.6.13.1-arm";
+  name = "linux-headers-2.6.13.4-arm";
   builder = ./builder.sh;
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.13.1.tar.bz2;
-    sha256 = "12qxmc827fjhaz53kjy7vyrzsaqcg78amiqsb3qm20z26w705lma";
+    url = http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.13.4.tar.bz2;
+    md5 = "94768d7eef90a9d8174639b2a7d3f58d";
   };
 }
 ---
@@ -152,7 +152,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   builder = ./builder.sh;
   src = fetchurl {
     url = ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/gcc/gcc-4.0.2/gcc-core-4.0.2.tar.bz2;
-    sha256 = "02fxh0asflm8825w23l2jq1wvs7hbnam0jayrivg7zdv2ifnc0rc";
+    md5 = "f7781398ada62ba255486673e6274b26";
+    #url = ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/gcc/gcc-4.0.2/gcc-4.0.2.tar.bz2;
+    #md5 = "a659b8388cac9db2b13e056e574ceeb0";
   };
   # !!! apply only if noSysDirs is set
   patches = [./no-sys-dirs.patch ./gcc-inhibit.patch];

doc/old/update-upstream-data.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Semi-automatic source information updating using "update-upstream-data.sh" script and "src-{,info-}for-*.nix"
+
+1. Recognizing when a pre-existing package uses this mechanism.
+
+Packages using this automatical update mechanism have src-info-for-default.nix and src-for-default.nix next to default.nix. src-info-for-default.nix describes getting the freshest source from upstream web site; src-for-default.nix is a generated file with the current data about used source. Both files define a simple attrSet. 
+
+src-info-for-default.nix (for a file grabbed via http) contains at least downloadPage attribute - it is the page we need to look at to find out the latest version. It also contains baseName that is used for automatical generation of package name containing version. It can contain extra data for trickier cases.
+
+src-for-default.nix will contain advertisedUrl (raw URL chosen on the site; its change prompts regeneration of source data), url for fetchurl, hash, version retrieved from the download URL and suggested package name.
+
+2. Updating a package
+
+nixpkgs/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater directory contains some scripts. The worker script is called update-upstream-data.sh. This script requires main expression name (e.g. default.nix). It can optionally accpet a second parameter, URL which will be used instead of getting one by parsing the downloadPage (version extraction, mirror URL creation etc. will still be run). After running the script, check src-for-default.nix (or replace default.nix with expression name, if there are seceral expressions in the directory) for new version information.
+

doc/overlays.xml

@@ -1,164 +0,0 @@
-<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
-         xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
-         xml:id="chap-overlays">
- <title>Overlays</title>
- <para>
-  This chapter describes how to extend and change Nixpkgs packages using
-  overlays. Overlays are used to add layers in the fix-point used by Nixpkgs to
-  compose the set of all packages.
- </para>
- <para>
-  Nixpkgs can be configured with a list of overlays, which are applied in
-  order. This means that the order of the overlays can be significant if
-  multiple layers override the same package.
- </para>
-<!--============================================================-->
- <section xml:id="sec-overlays-install">
-  <title>Installing overlays</title>
-
-  <para>
-   The list of overlays is determined as follows.
-  </para>
-
-  <para>
-   If the <varname>overlays</varname> argument is not provided explicitly, we
-   look for overlays in a path. The path is determined as follows:
-   <orderedlist>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      First, if an <varname>overlays</varname> argument to the nixpkgs function
-      itself is given, then that is used.
-     </para>
-     <para>
-      This can be passed explicitly when importing nipxkgs, for example
-      <literal>import &lt;nixpkgs> { overlays = [ overlay1 overlay2 ];
-      }</literal>.
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      Otherwise, if the Nix path entry <literal>&lt;nixpkgs-overlays></literal>
-      exists, we look for overlays at that path, as described below.
-     </para>
-     <para>
-      See the section on <literal>NIX_PATH</literal> in the Nix manual for more
-      details on how to set a value for
-      <literal>&lt;nixpkgs-overlays>.</literal>
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      If one of <filename>~/.config/nixpkgs/overlays.nix</filename> and
-      <filename>~/.config/nixpkgs/overlays/</filename> exists, then we look for
-      overlays at that path, as described below. It is an error if both exist.
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-   </orderedlist>
-  </para>
-
-  <para>
-   If we are looking for overlays at a path, then there are two cases:
-   <itemizedlist>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      If the path is a file, then the file is imported as a Nix expression and
-      used as the list of overlays.
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      If the path is a directory, then we take the content of the directory,
-      order it lexicographically, and attempt to interpret each as an overlay
-      by:
-      <itemizedlist>
-       <listitem>
-        <para>
-         Importing the file, if it is a <literal>.nix</literal> file.
-        </para>
-       </listitem>
-       <listitem>
-        <para>
-         Importing a top-level <filename>default.nix</filename> file, if it is
-         a directory.
-        </para>
-       </listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-   </itemizedlist>
-  </para>
-
-  <para>
-   On a NixOS system the value of the <literal>nixpkgs.overlays</literal>
-   option, if present, is passed to the system Nixpkgs directly as an argument.
-   Note that this does not affect the overlays for non-NixOS operations (e.g.
-   <literal>nix-env</literal>), which are looked up independently.
-  </para>
-
-  <para>
-   The <filename>overlays.nix</filename> option therefore provides a convenient
-   way to use the same overlays for a NixOS system configuration and user
-   configuration: the same file can be used as
-   <filename>overlays.nix</filename> and imported as the value of
-   <literal>nixpkgs.overlays</literal>.
-  </para>
- </section>
-<!--============================================================-->
- <section xml:id="sec-overlays-definition">
-  <title>Defining overlays</title>
-
-  <para>
-   Overlays are Nix functions which accept two arguments, conventionally called
-   <varname>self</varname> and <varname>super</varname>, and return a set of
-   packages. For example, the following is a valid overlay.
-  </para>
-
-<programlisting>
-self: super:
-
-{
-  boost = super.boost.override {
-    python = self.python3;
-  };
-  rr = super.callPackage ./pkgs/rr {
-    stdenv = self.stdenv_32bit;
-  };
-}
-</programlisting>
-
-  <para>
-   The first argument (<varname>self</varname>) corresponds to the final
-   package set. You should use this set for the dependencies of all packages
-   specified in your overlay. For example, all the dependencies of
-   <varname>rr</varname> in the example above come from
-   <varname>self</varname>, as well as the overridden dependencies used in the
-   <varname>boost</varname> override.
-  </para>
-
-  <para>
-   The second argument (<varname>super</varname>) corresponds to the result of
-   the evaluation of the previous stages of Nixpkgs. It does not contain any of
-   the packages added by the current overlay, nor any of the following
-   overlays. This set should be used either to refer to packages you wish to
-   override, or to access functions defined in Nixpkgs. For example, the
-   original recipe of <varname>boost</varname> in the above example, comes from
-   <varname>super</varname>, as well as the <varname>callPackage</varname>
-   function.
-  </para>
-
-  <para>
-   The value returned by this function should be a set similar to
-   <filename>pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix</filename>, containing overridden
-   and/or new packages.
-  </para>
-
-  <para>
-   Overlays are similar to other methods for customizing Nixpkgs, in particular
-   the <literal>packageOverrides</literal> attribute described in
-   <xref linkend="sec-modify-via-packageOverrides"/>. Indeed,
-   <literal>packageOverrides</literal> acts as an overlay with only the
-   <varname>super</varname> argument. It is therefore appropriate for basic
-   use, but overlays are more powerful and easier to distribute.
-  </para>
- </section>
-</chapter>

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@@ -1,185 +1,206 @@
 <chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
          xml:id="chap-package-notes">
- <title>Package Notes</title>
- <para>
-  This chapter contains information about how to use and maintain the Nix
-  expressions for a number of specific packages, such as the Linux kernel or
-  X.org.
- </para>
+
+<title>Package Notes</title>
+
+<para>This chapter contains information about how to use and maintain
+the Nix expressions for a number of specific packages, such as the
+Linux kernel or X.org.</para>
+
+
 <!--============================================================-->
- <section xml:id="sec-linux-kernel">
-  <title>Linux kernel</title>
 
-  <para>
-   The Nix expressions to build the Linux kernel are in
-   <link
-xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel"><filename>pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel</filename></link>.
-  </para>
+<section xml:id="sec-linux-kernel">
 
-  <para>
-   The function that builds the kernel has an argument
-   <varname>kernelPatches</varname> which should be a list of <literal>{name,
-   patch, extraConfig}</literal> attribute sets, where <varname>name</varname>
-   is the name of the patch (which is included in the kernel’s
-   <varname>meta.description</varname> attribute), <varname>patch</varname> is
-   the patch itself (possibly compressed), and <varname>extraConfig</varname>
-   (optional) is a string specifying extra options to be concatenated to the
-   kernel configuration file (<filename>.config</filename>).
-  </para>
+<title>Linux kernel</title>
+
+<para>The Nix expressions to build the Linux kernel are in <link
+xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel"><filename>pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel</filename></link>.</para>
+
+<para>The function that builds the kernel has an argument
+<varname>kernelPatches</varname> which should be a list of
+<literal>{name, patch, extraConfig}</literal> attribute sets, where
+<varname>name</varname> is the name of the patch (which is included in
+the kernel’s <varname>meta.description</varname> attribute),
+<varname>patch</varname> is the patch itself (possibly compressed),
+and <varname>extraConfig</varname> (optional) is a string specifying
+extra options to be concatenated to the kernel configuration file
+(<filename>.config</filename>).</para>
+
+<para>The kernel derivation exports an attribute
+<varname>features</varname> specifying whether optional functionality
+is or isn’t enabled.  This is used in NixOS to implement
+kernel-specific behaviour.  For instance, if the kernel has the
+<varname>iwlwifi</varname> feature (i.e. has built-in support for
+Intel wireless chipsets), then NixOS doesn’t have to build the
+external <varname>iwlwifi</varname> package:
 
-  <para>
-   The kernel derivation exports an attribute <varname>features</varname>
-   specifying whether optional functionality is or isn’t enabled. This is
-   used in NixOS to implement kernel-specific behaviour. For instance, if the
-   kernel has the <varname>iwlwifi</varname> feature (i.e. has built-in support
-   for Intel wireless chipsets), then NixOS doesn’t have to build the
-   external <varname>iwlwifi</varname> package:
 <programlisting>
 modulesTree = [kernel]
   ++ pkgs.lib.optional (!kernel.features ? iwlwifi) kernelPackages.iwlwifi
   ++ ...;
 </programlisting>
-  </para>
 
-  <para>
-   How to add a new (major) version of the Linux kernel to Nixpkgs:
-   <orderedlist>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      Copy the old Nix expression (e.g. <filename>linux-2.6.21.nix</filename>)
-      to the new one (e.g. <filename>linux-2.6.22.nix</filename>) and update
-      it.
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      Add the new kernel to <filename>all-packages.nix</filename> (e.g., create
-      an attribute <varname>kernel_2_6_22</varname>).
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      Now we’re going to update the kernel configuration. First unpack the
-      kernel. Then for each supported platform (<literal>i686</literal>,
-      <literal>x86_64</literal>, <literal>uml</literal>) do the following:
+</para>
+
+<para>How to add a new (major) version of the Linux kernel to Nixpkgs:
+
+<orderedlist>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>Copy the old Nix expression
+    (e.g. <filename>linux-2.6.21.nix</filename>) to the new one
+    (e.g. <filename>linux-2.6.22.nix</filename>) and update it.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>Add the new kernel to <filename>all-packages.nix</filename>
+    (e.g., create an attribute
+    <varname>kernel_2_6_22</varname>).</para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>Now we’re going to update the kernel configuration.  First
+    unpack the kernel.  Then for each supported platform
+    (<literal>i686</literal>, <literal>x86_64</literal>,
+    <literal>uml</literal>) do the following:
+
       <orderedlist>
-       <listitem>
-        <para>
-         Make an copy from the old config (e.g.
-         <filename>config-2.6.21-i686-smp</filename>) to the new one (e.g.
-         <filename>config-2.6.22-i686-smp</filename>).
-        </para>
-       </listitem>
-       <listitem>
-        <para>
-         Copy the config file for this platform (e.g.
-         <filename>config-2.6.22-i686-smp</filename>) to
-         <filename>.config</filename> in the kernel source tree.
-        </para>
-       </listitem>
-       <listitem>
-        <para>
-         Run <literal>make oldconfig
-         ARCH=<replaceable>{i386,x86_64,um}</replaceable></literal> and answer
-         all questions. (For the uml configuration, also add
-         <literal>SHELL=bash</literal>.) Make sure to keep the configuration
-         consistent between platforms (i.e. don’t enable some feature on
-         <literal>i686</literal> and disable it on <literal>x86_64</literal>).
-        </para>
-       </listitem>
-       <listitem>
-        <para>
-         If needed you can also run <literal>make menuconfig</literal>:
-<screen>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Make an copy from the old
+          config (e.g. <filename>config-2.6.21-i686-smp</filename>) to
+          the new one
+          (e.g. <filename>config-2.6.22-i686-smp</filename>).</para>
+        </listitem>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Copy the config file for this platform
+          (e.g. <filename>config-2.6.22-i686-smp</filename>) to
+          <filename>.config</filename> in the kernel source tree.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Run <literal>make oldconfig
+          ARCH=<replaceable>{i386,x86_64,um}</replaceable></literal>
+          and answer all questions.  (For the uml configuration, also
+          add <literal>SHELL=bash</literal>.)  Make sure to keep the
+          configuration consistent between platforms (i.e. don’t
+          enable some feature on <literal>i686</literal> and disable
+          it on <literal>x86_64</literal>).
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>If needed you can also run <literal>make
+          menuconfig</literal>:
+
+            <screen>
 $ nix-env -i ncurses
 $ export NIX_CFLAGS_LINK=-lncurses
 $ make menuconfig ARCH=<replaceable>arch</replaceable></screen>
-        </para>
-       </listitem>
-       <listitem>
-        <para>
-         Copy <filename>.config</filename> over the new config file (e.g.
-         <filename>config-2.6.22-i686-smp</filename>).
-        </para>
-       </listitem>
+          
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Copy <filename>.config</filename> over the new config
+          file (e.g. <filename>config-2.6.22-i686-smp</filename>).</para>
+        </listitem>
+
       </orderedlist>
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      Test building the kernel: <literal>nix-build -A kernel_2_6_22</literal>.
-      If it compiles, ship it! For extra credit, try booting NixOS with it.
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      It may be that the new kernel requires updating the external kernel
-      modules and kernel-dependent packages listed in the
-      <varname>linuxPackagesFor</varname> function in
-      <filename>all-packages.nix</filename> (such as the NVIDIA drivers, AUFS,
-      etc.). If the updated packages aren’t backwards compatible with older
-      kernels, you may need to keep the older versions around.
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-   </orderedlist>
-  </para>
- </section>
+    
+    </para>
+    
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>Test building the kernel: <literal>nix-build -A
+    kernel_2_6_22</literal>.  If it compiles, ship it!  For extra
+    credit, try booting NixOS with it.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>It may be that the new kernel requires updating the external
+    kernel modules and kernel-dependent packages listed in the
+    <varname>linuxPackagesFor</varname> function in
+    <filename>all-packages.nix</filename> (such as the NVIDIA drivers,
+    AUFS, etc.).  If the updated packages aren’t backwards compatible
+    with older kernels, you may need to keep the older versions
+    around.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
+</orderedlist>
+
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+
 <!--============================================================-->
- <section xml:id="sec-xorg">
-  <title>X.org</title>
 
-  <para>
-   The Nix expressions for the X.org packages reside in
-   <filename>pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/default.nix</filename>. This file is
-   automatically generated from lists of tarballs in an X.org release. As such
-   it should not be modified directly; rather, you should modify the lists, the
-   generator script or the file
-   <filename>pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/overrides.nix</filename>, in which you can
-   override or add to the derivations produced by the generator.
-  </para>
+<section xml:id="sec-xorg">
+
+<title>X.org</title>
+
+<para>The Nix expressions for the X.org packages reside in
+<filename>pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/default.nix</filename>.  This file is
+automatically generated from lists of tarballs in an X.org release.
+As such it should not be modified directly; rather, you should modify
+the lists, the generator script or the file
+<filename>pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/overrides.nix</filename>, in which you
+can override or add to the derivations produced by the
+generator.</para>
+
+<para>The generator is invoked as follows:
 
-  <para>
-   The generator is invoked as follows:
 <screen>
 $ cd pkgs/servers/x11/xorg
 $ cat tarballs-7.5.list extra.list old.list \
   | perl ./generate-expr-from-tarballs.pl
 </screen>
-   For each of the tarballs in the <filename>.list</filename> files, the script
-   downloads it, unpacks it, and searches its <filename>configure.ac</filename>
-   and <filename>*.pc.in</filename> files for dependencies. This information is
-   used to generate <filename>default.nix</filename>. The generator caches
-   downloaded tarballs between runs. Pay close attention to the <literal>NOT
-   FOUND: <replaceable>name</replaceable></literal> messages at the end of the
-   run, since they may indicate missing dependencies. (Some might be optional
-   dependencies, however.)
-  </para>
 
-  <para>
-   A file like <filename>tarballs-7.5.list</filename> contains all tarballs in
-   a X.org release. It can be generated like this:
+For each of the tarballs in the <filename>.list</filename> files, the
+script downloads it, unpacks it, and searches its
+<filename>configure.ac</filename> and <filename>*.pc.in</filename>
+files for dependencies.  This information is used to generate
+<filename>default.nix</filename>.  The generator caches downloaded
+tarballs between runs.  Pay close attention to the <literal>NOT FOUND:
+<replaceable>name</replaceable></literal> messages at the end of the
+run, since they may indicate missing dependencies.  (Some might be
+optional dependencies, however.)</para>
+
+<para>A file like <filename>tarballs-7.5.list</filename> contains all
+tarballs in a X.org release.  It can be generated like this:
+
 <screen>
 $ export i="mirror://xorg/X11R7.4/src/everything/"
 $ cat $(PRINT_PATH=1 nix-prefetch-url $i | tail -n 1) \
   | perl -e 'while (&lt;>) { if (/(href|HREF)="([^"]*.bz2)"/) { print "$ENV{'i'}$2\n"; }; }' \
   | sort > tarballs-7.4.list
 </screen>
-   <filename>extra.list</filename> contains libraries that aren’t part of
-   X.org proper, but are closely related to it, such as
-   <literal>libxcb</literal>. <filename>old.list</filename> contains some
-   packages that were removed from X.org, but are still needed by some people
-   or by other packages (such as <varname>imake</varname>).
-  </para>
 
-  <para>
-   If the expression for a package requires derivation attributes that the
-   generator cannot figure out automatically (say, <varname>patches</varname>
-   or a <varname>postInstall</varname> hook), you should modify
-   <filename>pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/overrides.nix</filename>.
-  </para>
- </section>
+<filename>extra.list</filename> contains libraries that aren’t part of
+X.org proper, but are closely related to it, such as
+<literal>libxcb</literal>.  <filename>old.list</filename> contains
+some packages that were removed from X.org, but are still needed by
+some people or by other packages (such as
+<varname>imake</varname>).</para>
+
+<para>If the expression for a package requires derivation attributes
+that the generator cannot figure out automatically (say,
+<varname>patches</varname> or a <varname>postInstall</varname> hook),
+you should modify
+<filename>pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/overrides.nix</filename>.</para>
+
+</section>
+
+
+
 <!--============================================================-->
+
 <!--
 <section>
   <title>Gnome</title>
@@ -187,53 +208,65 @@ $ cat $(PRINT_PATH=1 nix-prefetch-url $i | tail -n 1) \
   <para>* How to update</para>
 </section>
 -->
+
+
 <!--============================================================-->
+
 <!--
 <section>
   <title>GCC</title>
   <para>…</para>
 </section>
 -->
+
 <!--============================================================-->
- <section xml:id="sec-eclipse">
+
+<section xml:id="sec-eclipse">
+
   <title>Eclipse</title>
 
   <para>
-   The Nix expressions related to the Eclipse platform and IDE are in
-   <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/editors/eclipse"><filename>pkgs/applications/editors/eclipse</filename></link>.
+    The Nix expressions related to the Eclipse platform and IDE are in
+    <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/editors/eclipse"><filename>pkgs/applications/editors/eclipse</filename></link>.
   </para>
 
   <para>
-   Nixpkgs provides a number of packages that will install Eclipse in its
-   various forms, these range from the bare-bones Eclipse Platform to the more
-   fully featured Eclipse SDK or Scala-IDE packages and multiple version are
-   often available. It is possible to list available Eclipse packages by
-   issuing the command:
+    Nixpkgs provides a number of packages that will install Eclipse in
+    its various forms, these range from the bare-bones Eclipse
+    Platform to the more fully featured Eclipse SDK or Scala-IDE
+    packages and multiple version are often available. It is possible
+    to list available Eclipse packages by issuing the command:
+
 <screen>
 $ nix-env -f '&lt;nixpkgs&gt;' -qaP -A eclipses --description
 </screen>
-   Once an Eclipse variant is installed it can be run using the
-   <command>eclipse</command> command, as expected. From within Eclipse it is
-   then possible to install plugins in the usual manner by either manually
-   specifying an Eclipse update site or by installing the Marketplace Client
-   plugin and using it to discover and install other plugins. This installation
-   method provides an Eclipse installation that closely resemble a manually
-   installed Eclipse.
+
+    Once an Eclipse variant is installed it can be run using the
+    <command>eclipse</command> command, as expected. From within
+    Eclipse it is then possible to install plugins in the usual manner
+    by either manually specifying an Eclipse update site or by
+    installing the Marketplace Client plugin and using it to discover
+    and install other plugins. This installation method provides an
+    Eclipse installation that closely resemble a manually installed
+    Eclipse.
   </para>
 
   <para>
-   If you prefer to install plugins in a more declarative manner then Nixpkgs
-   also offer a number of Eclipse plugins that can be installed in an
-   <emphasis>Eclipse environment</emphasis>. This type of environment is
-   created using the function <varname>eclipseWithPlugins</varname> found
-   inside the <varname>nixpkgs.eclipses</varname> attribute set. This function
-   takes as argument <literal>{ eclipse, plugins ? [], jvmArgs ? [] }</literal>
-   where <varname>eclipse</varname> is a one of the Eclipse packages described
-   above, <varname>plugins</varname> is a list of plugin derivations, and
-   <varname>jvmArgs</varname> is a list of arguments given to the JVM running
-   the Eclipse. For example, say you wish to install the latest Eclipse
-   Platform with the popular Eclipse Color Theme plugin and also allow Eclipse
-   to use more RAM. You could then add
+    If you prefer to install plugins in a more declarative manner then
+    Nixpkgs also offer a number of Eclipse plugins that can be
+    installed in an <emphasis>Eclipse environment</emphasis>. This
+    type of environment is created using the function
+    <varname>eclipseWithPlugins</varname> found inside the
+    <varname>nixpkgs.eclipses</varname> attribute set. This function
+    takes as argument <literal>{ eclipse, plugins ? [], jvmArgs ? []
+    }</literal> where <varname>eclipse</varname> is a one of the
+    Eclipse packages described above, <varname>plugins</varname> is a
+    list of plugin derivations, and <varname>jvmArgs</varname> is a
+    list of arguments given to the JVM running the Eclipse. For
+    example, say you wish to install the latest Eclipse Platform with
+    the popular Eclipse Color Theme plugin and also allow Eclipse to
+    use more RAM. You could then add
+
 <screen>
 packageOverrides = pkgs: {
   myEclipse = with pkgs.eclipses; eclipseWithPlugins {
@@ -243,38 +276,42 @@ packageOverrides = pkgs: {
   };
 }
 </screen>
-   to your Nixpkgs configuration
-   (<filename>~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix</filename>) and install it by
-   running <command>nix-env -f '&lt;nixpkgs&gt;' -iA myEclipse</command> and
-   afterward run Eclipse as usual. It is possible to find out which plugins are
-   available for installation using <varname>eclipseWithPlugins</varname> by
-   running
+
+    to your Nixpkgs configuration
+    (<filename>~/.nixpkgs/config.nix</filename>) and install it by
+    running <command>nix-env -f '&lt;nixpkgs&gt;' -iA
+    myEclipse</command> and afterward run Eclipse as usual. It is
+    possible to find out which plugins are available for installation
+    using <varname>eclipseWithPlugins</varname> by running
+
 <screen>
 $ nix-env -f '&lt;nixpkgs&gt;' -qaP -A eclipses.plugins --description
 </screen>
   </para>
 
   <para>
-   If there is a need to install plugins that are not available in Nixpkgs then
-   it may be possible to define these plugins outside Nixpkgs using the
-   <varname>buildEclipseUpdateSite</varname> and
-   <varname>buildEclipsePlugin</varname> functions found in the
-   <varname>nixpkgs.eclipses.plugins</varname> attribute set. Use the
-   <varname>buildEclipseUpdateSite</varname> function to install a plugin
-   distributed as an Eclipse update site. This function takes <literal>{ name,
-   src }</literal> as argument where <literal>src</literal> indicates the
-   Eclipse update site archive. All Eclipse features and plugins within the
-   downloaded update site will be installed. When an update site archive is not
-   available then the <varname>buildEclipsePlugin</varname> function can be
-   used to install a plugin that consists of a pair of feature and plugin JARs.
-   This function takes an argument <literal>{ name, srcFeature, srcPlugin
-   }</literal> where <literal>srcFeature</literal> and
-   <literal>srcPlugin</literal> are the feature and plugin JARs, respectively.
+    If there is a need to install plugins that are not available in
+    Nixpkgs then it may be possible to define these plugins outside
+    Nixpkgs using the <varname>buildEclipseUpdateSite</varname> and
+    <varname>buildEclipsePlugin</varname> functions found in the
+    <varname>nixpkgs.eclipses.plugins</varname> attribute set. Use the
+    <varname>buildEclipseUpdateSite</varname> function to install a
+    plugin distributed as an Eclipse update site. This function takes
+    <literal>{ name, src }</literal> as argument where
+    <literal>src</literal> indicates the Eclipse update site archive.
+    All Eclipse features and plugins within the downloaded update site
+    will be installed. When an update site archive is not available
+    then the <varname>buildEclipsePlugin</varname> function can be
+    used to install a plugin that consists of a pair of feature and
+    plugin JARs. This function takes an argument <literal>{ name,
+    srcFeature, srcPlugin }</literal> where
+    <literal>srcFeature</literal> and <literal>srcPlugin</literal> are
+    the feature and plugin JARs, respectively.
   </para>
 
   <para>
-   Expanding the previous example with two plugins using the above functions we
-   have
+    Expanding the previous example with two plugins using the above
+    functions we have
 <screen>
 packageOverrides = pkgs: {
   myEclipse = with pkgs.eclipses; eclipseWithPlugins {
@@ -306,392 +343,43 @@ packageOverrides = pkgs: {
 }
 </screen>
   </para>
- </section>
- <section xml:id="sec-elm">
-  <title>Elm</title>
 
-  <para>
-   The Nix expressions for Elm reside in
-   <filename>pkgs/development/compilers/elm</filename>. They are generated
-   automatically by <command>update-elm.rb</command> script. One should specify
-   versions of Elm packages inside the script, clear the
-   <filename>packages</filename> directory and run the script from inside it.
-   <literal>elm-reactor</literal> is special because it also has Elm package
-   dependencies. The process is not automated very much for now -- you should
-   get the <literal>elm-reactor</literal> source tree (e.g. with
-   <command>nix-shell</command>) and run <command>elm2nix.rb</command> inside
-   it. Place the resulting <filename>package.nix</filename> file into
-   <filename>packages/elm-reactor-elm.nix</filename>.
-  </para>
- </section>
- <section xml:id="sec-shell-helpers">
-  <title>Interactive shell helpers</title>
+</section>
 
-  <para>
-   Some packages provide the shell integration to be more useful. But unlike
-   other systems, nix doesn't have a standard share directory location. This is
-   why a bunch <command>PACKAGE-share</command> scripts are shipped that print
-   the location of the corresponding shared folder. Current list of such
-   packages is as following:
-   <itemizedlist>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      <literal>autojump</literal>: <command>autojump-share</command>
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      <literal>fzf</literal>: <command>fzf-share</command>
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-   </itemizedlist>
-   E.g. <literal>autojump</literal> can then used in the .bashrc like this:
+<section xml:id="sec-elm">
+
+<title>Elm</title>
+
+<para>
+The Nix expressions for Elm reside in
+<filename>pkgs/development/compilers/elm</filename>. They are generated
+automatically by <command>update-elm.rb</command> script. One should
+specify versions of Elm packages inside the script, clear the
+<filename>packages</filename> directory and run the script from inside it.
+<literal>elm-reactor</literal> is special because it also has Elm package
+dependencies. The process is not automated very much for now -- you should
+get the <literal>elm-reactor</literal> source tree (e.g. with
+<command>nix-shell</command>) and run <command>elm2nix.rb</command> inside
+it. Place the resulting <filename>package.nix</filename> file into
+<filename>packages/elm-reactor-elm.nix</filename>.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+<section xml:id="sec-autojump">
+
+<title>Autojump</title>
+
+<para>
+  autojump needs the shell integration to be useful but unlike other systems,
+  nix doesn't have a standard share directory location. This is why a
+  <command>autojump-share</command> script is shipped that prints the location
+  of the shared folder. This can then be used in the .bashrc like this:
 <screen>
   source "$(autojump-share)/autojump.bash"
 </screen>
-  </para>
- </section>
- <section xml:id="sec-steam">
-  <title>Steam</title>
+</para>
 
-  <section xml:id="sec-steam-nix">
-   <title>Steam in Nix</title>
+</section>
 
-   <para>
-    Steam is distributed as a <filename>.deb</filename> file, for now only as
-    an i686 package (the amd64 package only has documentation). When unpacked,
-    it has a script called <filename>steam</filename> that in ubuntu (their
-    target distro) would go to <filename>/usr/bin </filename>. When run for the
-    first time, this script copies some files to the user's home, which include
-    another script that is the ultimate responsible for launching the steam
-    binary, which is also in $HOME.
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-    Nix problems and constraints:
-    <itemizedlist>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       We don't have <filename>/bin/bash</filename> and many scripts point
-       there. Similarly for <filename>/usr/bin/python</filename> .
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       We don't have the dynamic loader in <filename>/lib </filename>.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       The <filename>steam.sh</filename> script in $HOME can not be patched, as
-       it is checked and rewritten by steam.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       The steam binary cannot be patched, it's also checked.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-    The current approach to deploy Steam in NixOS is composing a FHS-compatible
-    chroot environment, as documented
-    <link xlink:href="http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.nl/2013/09/composing-fhs-compatible-chroot.html">here</link>.
-    This allows us to have binaries in the expected paths without disrupting
-    the system, and to avoid patching them to work in a non FHS environment.
-   </para>
-  </section>
-
-  <section xml:id="sec-steam-play">
-   <title>How to play</title>
-
-   <para>
-    For 64-bit systems it's important to have
-<programlisting>hardware.opengl.driSupport32Bit = true;</programlisting>
-    in your <filename>/etc/nixos/configuration.nix</filename>. You'll also need
-<programlisting>hardware.pulseaudio.support32Bit = true;</programlisting>
-    if you are using PulseAudio - this will enable 32bit ALSA apps integration.
-    To use the Steam controller, you need to add
-<programlisting>services.udev.extraRules = ''
-    SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="28de", MODE="0666"
-    KERNEL=="uinput", MODE="0660", GROUP="users", OPTIONS+="static_node=uinput"
-  '';</programlisting>
-    to your configuration.
-   </para>
-  </section>
-
-  <section xml:id="sec-steam-troub">
-   <title>Troubleshooting</title>
-
-   <para>
-    <variablelist>
-     <varlistentry>
-      <term>
-       Steam fails to start. What do I do?
-      </term>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        Try to run
-<programlisting>strace steam</programlisting>
-        to see what is causing steam to fail.
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-     </varlistentry>
-     <varlistentry>
-      <term>
-       Using the FOSS Radeon or nouveau (nvidia) drivers
-      </term>
-      <listitem>
-       <itemizedlist>
-        <listitem>
-         <para>
-          The <literal>newStdcpp</literal> parameter was removed since NixOS
-          17.09 and should not be needed anymore.
-         </para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-         <para>
-          Steam ships statically linked with a version of libcrypto that
-          conflics with the one dynamically loaded by radeonsi_dri.so. If you
-          get the error
-<programlisting>steam.sh: line 713: 7842 Segmentation fault (core dumped)</programlisting>
-          have a look at
-          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/20269">this
-          pull request</link>.
-         </para>
-        </listitem>
-       </itemizedlist>
-      </listitem>
-     </varlistentry>
-     <varlistentry>
-      <term>
-       Java
-      </term>
-      <listitem>
-       <orderedlist>
-        <listitem>
-         <para>
-          There is no java in steam chrootenv by default. If you get a message
-          like
-<programlisting>/home/foo/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/towns/towns.sh: line 1: java: command not found</programlisting>
-          You need to add
-<programlisting> steam.override { withJava = true; };</programlisting>
-          to your configuration.
-         </para>
-        </listitem>
-       </orderedlist>
-      </listitem>
-     </varlistentry>
-    </variablelist>
-   </para>
-  </section>
-
-  <section xml:id="sec-steam-run">
-   <title>steam-run</title>
-
-   <para>
-    The FHS-compatible chroot used for steam can also be used to run other
-    linux games that expect a FHS environment. To do it, add
-<programlisting>pkgs.(steam.override {
-          nativeOnly = true;
-          newStdcpp = true;
-        }).run</programlisting>
-    to your configuration, rebuild, and run the game with
-<programlisting>steam-run ./foo</programlisting>
-   </para>
-  </section>
- </section>
- <section xml:id="sec-emacs">
-  <title>Emacs</title>
-
-  <section xml:id="sec-emacs-config">
-   <title>Configuring Emacs</title>
-
-   <para>
-    The Emacs package comes with some extra helpers to make it easier to
-    configure. <varname>emacsWithPackages</varname> allows you to manage
-    packages from ELPA. This means that you will not have to install that
-    packages from within Emacs. For instance, if you wanted to use
-    <literal>company</literal>, <literal>counsel</literal>,
-    <literal>flycheck</literal>, <literal>ivy</literal>,
-    <literal>magit</literal>, <literal>projectile</literal>, and
-    <literal>use-package</literal> you could use this as a
-    <filename>~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix</filename> override:
-   </para>
-
-<screen>
-{
-  packageOverrides = pkgs: with pkgs; {
-    myEmacs = emacsWithPackages (epkgs: (with epkgs.melpaStablePackages; [
-      company
-      counsel
-      flycheck
-      ivy
-      magit
-      projectile
-      use-package
-    ]));
-  }
-}
-</screen>
-
-   <para>
-    You can install it like any other packages via <command>nix-env -iA
-    myEmacs</command>. However, this will only install those packages. It will
-    not <literal>configure</literal> them for us. To do this, we need to
-    provide a configuration file. Luckily, it is possible to do this from
-    within Nix! By modifying the above example, we can make Emacs load a custom
-    config file. The key is to create a package that provide a
-    <filename>default.el</filename> file in
-    <filename>/share/emacs/site-start/</filename>. Emacs knows to load this
-    file automatically when it starts.
-   </para>
-
-<screen>
-{
-  packageOverrides = pkgs: with pkgs; rec {
-    myEmacsConfig = writeText "default.el" ''
-;; initialize package
-
-(require 'package)
-(package-initialize 'noactivate)
-(eval-when-compile
-  (require 'use-package))
-
-;; load some packages
-
-(use-package company
-  :bind ("&lt;C-tab&gt;" . company-complete)
-  :diminish company-mode
-  :commands (company-mode global-company-mode)
-  :defer 1
-  :config
-  (global-company-mode))
-
-(use-package counsel
-  :commands (counsel-descbinds)
-  :bind (([remap execute-extended-command] . counsel-M-x)
-         ("C-x C-f" . counsel-find-file)
-         ("C-c g" . counsel-git)
-         ("C-c j" . counsel-git-grep)
-         ("C-c k" . counsel-ag)
-         ("C-x l" . counsel-locate)
-         ("M-y" . counsel-yank-pop)))
-
-(use-package flycheck
-  :defer 2
-  :config (global-flycheck-mode))
-
-(use-package ivy
-  :defer 1
-  :bind (("C-c C-r" . ivy-resume)
-         ("C-x C-b" . ivy-switch-buffer)
-         :map ivy-minibuffer-map
-         ("C-j" . ivy-call))
-  :diminish ivy-mode
-  :commands ivy-mode
-  :config
-  (ivy-mode 1))
-
-(use-package magit
-  :defer
-  :if (executable-find "git")
-  :bind (("C-x g" . magit-status)
-         ("C-x G" . magit-dispatch-popup))
-  :init
-  (setq magit-completing-read-function 'ivy-completing-read))
-
-(use-package projectile
-  :commands projectile-mode
-  :bind-keymap ("C-c p" . projectile-command-map)
-  :defer 5
-  :config
-  (projectile-global-mode))
-    '';
-    myEmacs = emacsWithPackages (epkgs: (with epkgs.melpaStablePackages; [
-      (runCommand "default.el" {} ''
-mkdir -p $out/share/emacs/site-lisp
-cp ${myEmacsConfig} $out/share/emacs/site-lisp/default.el
-'')
-      company
-      counsel
-      flycheck
-      ivy
-      magit
-      projectile
-      use-package
-    ]));
-  };
-}
-</screen>
-
-   <para>
-    This provides a fairly full Emacs start file. It will load in addition to
-    the user's presonal config. You can always disable it by passing
-    <command>-q</command> to the Emacs command.
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-    Sometimes <varname>emacsWithPackages</varname> is not enough, as this
-    package set has some priorities imposed on packages (with the lowest
-    priority assigned to Melpa Unstable, and the highest for packages manually
-    defined in <filename>pkgs/top-level/emacs-packages.nix</filename>). But you
-    can't control this priorities when some package is installed as a
-    dependency. You can override it on per-package-basis, providing all the
-    required dependencies manually - but it's tedious and there is always a
-    possibility that an unwanted dependency will sneak in through some other
-    package. To completely override such a package you can use
-    <varname>overrideScope</varname>.
-   </para>
-
-<screen>
-overrides = super: self: rec {
-  haskell-mode = self.melpaPackages.haskell-mode;
-  ...
-};
-((emacsPackagesNgGen emacs).overrideScope overrides).emacsWithPackages (p: with p; [
-  # here both these package will use haskell-mode of our own choice
-  ghc-mod
-  dante
-])
-</screen>
-  </section>
- </section>
- <section xml:id="sec-weechat">
-  <title>Weechat</title>
-
-  <para>
-   Weechat can be configured to include your choice of plugins, reducing its
-   closure size from the default configuration which includes all available
-   plugins. To make use of this functionality, install an expression that
-   overrides its configuration such as
-<programlisting>weechat.override {configure = {availablePlugins, ...}: {
-    plugins = with availablePlugins; [ python perl ];
-  }
-}</programlisting>
-  </para>
-
-  <para>
-   The plugins currently available are <literal>python</literal>,
-   <literal>perl</literal>, <literal>ruby</literal>, <literal>guile</literal>,
-   <literal>tcl</literal> and <literal>lua</literal>.
-  </para>
-
-  <para>
-   The python plugin allows the addition of extra libraries. For instance, the
-   <literal>inotify.py</literal> script in weechat-scripts requires D-Bus or
-   libnotify, and the <literal>fish.py</literal> script requires pycrypto. To
-   use these scripts, use the <literal>python</literal> plugin's
-   <literal>withPackages</literal> attribute:
-<programlisting>weechat.override {configure = {availablePlugins, ...}: {
-    plugins = with availablePlugins; [
-            (python.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ pycrypto python-dbus ]))
-        ];
-    }
-}
-</programlisting>
-  </para>
- </section>
 </chapter>

doc/platform-notes.xml

@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
-<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
-         xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
-         xml:id="chap-platform-nodes">
- <title>Platform Notes</title>
- <section xml:id="sec-darwin">
-  <title>Darwin (macOS)</title>
-
-  <para>
-   Some common issues when packaging software for darwin:
-  </para>
-
-  <itemizedlist>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     The darwin <literal>stdenv</literal> uses clang instead of gcc. When
-     referring to the compiler <varname>$CC</varname> or <command>cc</command>
-     will work in both cases. Some builds hardcode gcc/g++ in their build
-     scripts, that can usually be fixed with using something like
-     <literal>makeFlags = [ "CC=cc" ];</literal> or by patching the build
-     scripts.
-    </para>
-<programlisting>
-      stdenv.mkDerivation {
-        name = "libfoo-1.2.3";
-        # ...
-        buildPhase = ''
-          $CC -o hello hello.c
-        '';
-      }
-    </programlisting>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     On darwin libraries are linked using absolute paths, libraries are
-     resolved by their <literal>install_name</literal> at link time. Sometimes
-     packages won't set this correctly causing the library lookups to fail at
-     runtime. This can be fixed by adding extra linker flags or by running
-     <command>install_name_tool -id</command> during the
-     <function>fixupPhase</function>.
-    </para>
-<programlisting>
-      stdenv.mkDerivation {
-        name = "libfoo-1.2.3";
-        # ...
-        makeFlags = stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin "LDFLAGS=-Wl,-install_name,$(out)/lib/libfoo.dylib";
-      }
-    </programlisting>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Some packages assume xcode is available and use <command>xcrun</command>
-     to resolve build tools like <command>clang</command>, etc. This causes
-     errors like <code>xcode-select: error: no developer tools were found at
-     '/Applications/Xcode.app'</code> while the build doesn't actually depend
-     on xcode.
-    </para>
-<programlisting>
-      stdenv.mkDerivation {
-        name = "libfoo-1.2.3";
-        # ...
-        prePatch = ''
-          substituteInPlace Makefile \
-              --replace '/usr/bin/xcrun clang' clang
-        '';
-      }
-    </programlisting>
-    <para>
-     The package <literal>xcbuild</literal> can be used to build projects that
-     really depend on Xcode, however projects that build some kind of graphical
-     interface won't work without using Xcode in an impure way.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-  </itemizedlist>
- </section>
-</chapter>

doc/quick-start.xml

@@ -1,219 +1,223 @@
 <chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
          xml:id="chap-quick-start">
- <title>Quick Start to Adding a Package</title>
- <para>
-  To add a package to Nixpkgs:
-  <orderedlist>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Checkout the Nixpkgs source tree:
+
+<title>Quick Start to Adding a Package</title>
+
+<para>To add a package to Nixpkgs:
+
+<orderedlist>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>Checkout the Nixpkgs source tree:
+
 <screen>
 $ git clone git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git 
 $ cd nixpkgs</screen>
+
     </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Find a good place in the Nixpkgs tree to add the Nix expression for your
-     package. For instance, a library package typically goes into
-     <filename>pkgs/development/libraries/<replaceable>pkgname</replaceable></filename>,
-     while a web browser goes into
-     <filename>pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/<replaceable>pkgname</replaceable></filename>.
-     See <xref linkend="sec-organisation" /> for some hints on the tree
-     organisation. Create a directory for your package, e.g.
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>Find a good place in the Nixpkgs tree to add the Nix
+    expression for your package.  For instance, a library package
+    typically goes into
+    <filename>pkgs/development/libraries/<replaceable>pkgname</replaceable></filename>,
+    while a web browser goes into
+    <filename>pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/<replaceable>pkgname</replaceable></filename>.
+    See <xref linkend="sec-organisation" /> for some hints on the tree
+    organisation.  Create a directory for your package, e.g.
+
 <screen>
 $ mkdir pkgs/development/libraries/libfoo</screen>
+  
     </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     In the package directory, create a Nix expression — a piece of code that
-     describes how to build the package. In this case, it should be a
-     <emphasis>function</emphasis> that is called with the package dependencies
-     as arguments, and returns a build of the package in the Nix store. The
-     expression should usually be called <filename>default.nix</filename>.
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>In the package directory, create a Nix expression — a piece
+    of code that describes how to build the package.  In this case, it
+    should be a <emphasis>function</emphasis> that is called with the
+    package dependencies as arguments, and returns a build of the
+    package in the Nix store.  The expression should usually be called
+    <filename>default.nix</filename>.
+
 <screen>
 $ emacs pkgs/development/libraries/libfoo/default.nix
 $ git add pkgs/development/libraries/libfoo/default.nix</screen>
+
     </para>
-    <para>
-     You can have a look at the existing Nix expressions under
-     <filename>pkgs/</filename> to see how it’s done. Here are some good
-     ones:
-     <itemizedlist>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        GNU Hello:
-        <link
+
+    <para>You can have a look at the existing Nix expressions under
+    <filename>pkgs/</filename> to see how it’s done.  Here are some
+    good ones:
+
+      <itemizedlist>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>GNU Hello: <link
           xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/misc/hello/default.nix"><filename>pkgs/applications/misc/hello/default.nix</filename></link>.
-        Trivial package, which specifies some <varname>meta</varname>
-        attributes which is good practice.
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        GNU cpio:
-        <link
+          Trivial package, which specifies some <varname>meta</varname>
+          attributes which is good practice.</para>
+        </listitem>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>GNU cpio: <link
           xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/archivers/cpio/default.nix"><filename>pkgs/tools/archivers/cpio/default.nix</filename></link>.
-        Also a simple package. The generic builder in <varname>stdenv</varname>
-        does everything for you. It has no dependencies beyond
-        <varname>stdenv</varname>.
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        GNU Multiple Precision arithmetic library (GMP):
-        <link
+          Also a simple package. The generic builder in
+          <varname>stdenv</varname> does everything for you. It has
+          no dependencies beyond <varname>stdenv</varname>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>GNU Multiple Precision arithmetic library (GMP): <link
           xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/libraries/gmp/5.1.x.nix"><filename>pkgs/development/libraries/gmp/5.1.x.nix</filename></link>.
-        Also done by the generic builder, but has a dependency on
-        <varname>m4</varname>.
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        Pan, a GTK-based newsreader:
-        <link
+          Also done by the generic builder, but has a dependency on
+          <varname>m4</varname>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Pan, a GTK-based newsreader: <link
           xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/networking/newsreaders/pan/default.nix"><filename>pkgs/applications/networking/newsreaders/pan/default.nix</filename></link>.
-        Has an optional dependency on <varname>gtkspell</varname>, which is
-        only built if <varname>spellCheck</varname> is <literal>true</literal>.
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        Apache HTTPD:
-        <link
+          Has an optional dependency on <varname>gtkspell</varname>,
+          which is only built if <varname>spellCheck</varname> is
+          <literal>true</literal>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Apache HTTPD: <link
           xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/servers/http/apache-httpd/2.4.nix"><filename>pkgs/servers/http/apache-httpd/2.4.nix</filename></link>.
-        A bunch of optional features, variable substitutions in the configure
-        flags, a post-install hook, and miscellaneous hackery.
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        Thunderbird:
-        <link
+          A bunch of optional features, variable substitutions in the
+          configure flags, a post-install hook, and miscellaneous
+          hackery.</para>
+        </listitem>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Thunderbird: <link
           xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/thunderbird/default.nix"><filename>pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/thunderbird/default.nix</filename></link>.
-        Lots of dependencies.
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        JDiskReport, a Java utility:
-        <link
+          Lots of dependencies.</para>
+        </listitem>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>JDiskReport, a Java utility: <link
           xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/misc/jdiskreport/default.nix"><filename>pkgs/tools/misc/jdiskreport/default.nix</filename></link>
-        (and the
-        <link
+          (and the <link
           xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/misc/jdiskreport/builder.sh">builder</link>).
-        Nixpkgs doesn’t have a decent <varname>stdenv</varname> for Java yet
-        so this is pretty ad-hoc.
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        XML::Simple, a Perl module:
-        <link
+          Nixpkgs doesn’t have a decent <varname>stdenv</varname> for
+          Java yet so this is pretty ad-hoc.</para>
+        </listitem>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>XML::Simple, a Perl module: <link
           xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix"><filename>pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix</filename></link>
-        (search for the <varname>XMLSimple</varname> attribute). Most Perl
-        modules are so simple to build that they are defined directly in
-        <filename>perl-packages.nix</filename>; no need to make a separate file
-        for them.
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        Adobe Reader:
-        <link
+          (search for the <varname>XMLSimple</varname> attribute).
+          Most Perl modules are so simple to build that they are
+          defined directly in <filename>perl-packages.nix</filename>;
+          no need to make a separate file for them.</para>
+        </listitem>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Adobe Reader: <link
           xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/misc/adobe-reader/default.nix"><filename>pkgs/applications/misc/adobe-reader/default.nix</filename></link>.
-        Shows how binary-only packages can be supported. In particular the
-        <link
+          Shows how binary-only packages can be supported.  In
+          particular the <link
           xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/misc/adobe-reader/builder.sh">builder</link>
-        uses <command>patchelf</command> to set the RUNPATH and ELF interpreter
-        of the executables so that the right libraries are found at runtime.
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-     </itemizedlist>
+          uses <command>patchelf</command> to set the RUNPATH and ELF
+          interpreter of the executables so that the right libraries
+          are found at runtime.</para>
+        </listitem>
+
+      </itemizedlist>
+
     </para>
-    <para>
-     Some notes:
-     <itemizedlist>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        All <varname linkend="chap-meta">meta</varname> attributes are
-        optional, but it’s still a good idea to provide at least the
-        <varname>description</varname>, <varname>homepage</varname> and
-        <varname
-          linkend="sec-meta-license">license</varname>.
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        You can use <command>nix-prefetch-url</command> (or similar
-        nix-prefetch-git, etc) <replaceable>url</replaceable> to get the
-        SHA-256 hash of source distributions. There are similar commands as
-        <command>nix-prefetch-git</command> and
-        <command>nix-prefetch-hg</command> available in
-        <literal>nix-prefetch-scripts</literal> package.
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        A list of schemes for <literal>mirror://</literal> URLs can be found in
-        <link
-          xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/mirrors.nix"><filename>pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/mirrors.nix</filename></link>.
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-     </itemizedlist>
+
+    <para>Some notes:
+
+      <itemizedlist>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>All <varname linkend="chap-meta">meta</varname>
+          attributes are optional, but it’s still a good idea to
+          provide at least the <varname>description</varname>,
+          <varname>homepage</varname> and <varname
+          linkend="sec-meta-license">license</varname>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>You can use <command>nix-prefetch-url</command> (or similar nix-prefetch-git, etc)
+          <replaceable>url</replaceable> to get the SHA-256 hash of
+          source distributions. There are similar commands as <command>nix-prefetch-git</command> and
+          <command>nix-prefetch-hg</command> available in <literal>nix-prefetch-scripts</literal> package.</para>
+        </listitem>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>A list of schemes for <literal>mirror://</literal>
+          URLs can be found in <link
+          xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/mirrors.nix"><filename>pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/mirrors.nix</filename></link>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+
+      </itemizedlist>
+
     </para>
-    <para>
-     The exact syntax and semantics of the Nix expression language, including
-     the built-in function, are described in the Nix manual in the
-     <link
+
+    <para>The exact syntax and semantics of the Nix expression
+    language, including the built-in function, are described in the
+    Nix manual in the <link
     xlink:href="http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nix/trunk/tarball/latest/download-by-type/doc/manual/#chap-writing-nix-expressions">chapter
-     on writing Nix expressions</link>.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Add a call to the function defined in the previous step to
-     <link
+    on writing Nix expressions</link>.</para>
+    
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>Add a call to the function defined in the previous step to
+    <link
     xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix"><filename>pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix</filename></link>
-     with some descriptive name for the variable, e.g.
-     <varname>libfoo</varname>.
-<screen>
+    with some descriptive name for the variable,
+    e.g. <varname>libfoo</varname>.
+
+    <screen>
 $ emacs pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix</screen>
+      
     </para>
-    <para>
-     The attributes in that file are sorted by category (like “Development /
-     Libraries”) that more-or-less correspond to the directory structure of
-     Nixpkgs, and then by attribute name.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     To test whether the package builds, run the following command from the
-     root of the nixpkgs source tree:
-<screen>
+
+    <para>The attributes in that file are sorted by category (like
+    “Development / Libraries”) that more-or-less correspond to the
+    directory structure of Nixpkgs, and then by attribute name.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>To test whether the package builds, run the following command
+    from the root of the nixpkgs source tree:
+
+    <screen>
 $ nix-build -A libfoo</screen>
-     where <varname>libfoo</varname> should be the variable name defined in the
-     previous step. You may want to add the flag <option>-K</option> to keep
-     the temporary build directory in case something fails. If the build
-     succeeds, a symlink <filename>./result</filename> to the package in the
-     Nix store is created.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     If you want to install the package into your profile (optional), do
-<screen>
+
+    where <varname>libfoo</varname> should be the variable name
+    defined in the previous step.  You may want to add the flag
+    <option>-K</option> to keep the temporary build directory in case
+    something fails.  If the build succeeds, a symlink
+    <filename>./result</filename> to the package in the Nix store is
+    created.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>If you want to install the package into your profile
+    (optional), do
+
+    <screen>
 $ nix-env -f . -iA libfoo</screen>
+
     </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Optionally commit the new package and open a pull request, or send a patch
-     to <literal>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nix-devel</literal>.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-  </orderedlist>
- </para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>Optionally commit the new package and open a pull request, or send a patch to
+    <literal>nix-dev@cs.uu.nl</literal>.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
+
+</orderedlist>
+
+</para>
+
 </chapter>

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@@ -1,613 +0,0 @@
-<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
-        xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
-        xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
-        version="5.0"
-        xml:id="sec-reviewing-contributions">
- <title>Reviewing contributions</title>
- <warning>
-  <para>
-   The following section is a draft, and the policy for reviewing is still
-   being discussed in issues such as
-   <link
-	   xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/11166">#11166
-   </link> and
-   <link
-	   xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/20836">#20836
-   </link>.
-  </para>
- </warning>
- <para>
-  The nixpkgs project receives a fairly high number of contributions via GitHub
-  pull-requests. Reviewing and approving these is an important task and a way
-  to contribute to the project.
- </para>
- <para>
-  The high change rate of nixpkgs makes any pull request that remains open for
-  too long subject to conflicts that will require extra work from the submitter
-  or the merger. Reviewing pull requests in a timely manner and being
-  responsive to the comments is the key to avoid these. GitHub provides sort
-  filters that can be used to see the
-  <link
-    xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc">most
-  recently</link> and the
-  <link
-    xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-asc">least
-  recently</link> updated pull-requests.
- </para>
- <para>
-  When reviewing a pull request, please always be nice and polite.
-  Controversial changes can lead to controversial opinions, but it is important
-  to respect every community member and their work.
- </para>
- <para>
-  GitHub provides reactions as a simple and quick way to provide feedback to
-  pull-requests or any comments. The thumb-down reaction should be used with
-  care and if possible accompanied with some explanation so the submitter has
-  directions to improve their contribution.
- </para>
- <para>
-  Pull-request reviews should include a list of what has been reviewed in a
-  comment, so other reviewers and mergers can know the state of the review.
- </para>
- <para>
-  All the review template samples provided in this section are generic and
-  meant as examples. Their usage is optional and the reviewer is free to adapt
-  them to their liking.
- </para>
- <section>
-  <title>Package updates</title>
-
-  <para>
-   A package update is the most trivial and common type of pull-request. These
-   pull-requests mainly consist of updating the version part of the package
-   name and the source hash.
-  </para>
-
-  <para>
-   It can happen that non-trivial updates include patches or more complex
-   changes.
-  </para>
-
-  <para>
-   Reviewing process:
-  </para>
-
-  <itemizedlist>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Add labels to the pull-request. (Requires commit rights)
-    </para>
-    <itemizedlist>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       <literal>8.has: package (update)</literal> and any topic label that fit
-       the updated package.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Ensure that the package versioning fits the guidelines.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Ensure that the commit text fits the guidelines.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Ensure that the package maintainers are notified.
-    </para>
-    <itemizedlist>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       mention-bot usually notifies GitHub users based on the submitted
-       changes, but it can happen that it misses some of the package
-       maintainers.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Ensure that the meta field information is correct.
-    </para>
-    <itemizedlist>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       License can change with version updates, so it should be checked to
-       match the upstream license.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       If the package has no maintainer, a maintainer must be set. This can be
-       the update submitter or a community member that accepts to take
-       maintainership of the package.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Ensure that the code contains no typos.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Building the package locally.
-    </para>
-    <itemizedlist>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       Pull-requests are often targeted to the master or staging branch, and
-       building the pull-request locally when it is submitted can trigger many
-       source builds.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-       It is possible to rebase the changes on nixos-unstable or
-       nixpkgs-unstable for easier review by running the following commands
-       from a nixpkgs clone.
-<screen>
-$ git remote add channels https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git <co
-  xml:id='reviewing-rebase-1' />
-$ git fetch channels nixos-unstable <co xml:id='reviewing-rebase-2' />
-$ git fetch origin pull/PRNUMBER/head <co xml:id='reviewing-rebase-3' />
-$ git rebase --onto nixos-unstable BASEBRANCH FETCH_HEAD <co
-  xml:id='reviewing-rebase-4' />
-</screen>
-       <calloutlist>
-        <callout arearefs='reviewing-rebase-1'>
-         <para>
-          This should be done only once to be able to fetch channel branches
-          from the nixpkgs-channels repository.
-         </para>
-        </callout>
-        <callout arearefs='reviewing-rebase-2'>
-         <para>
-          Fetching the nixos-unstable branch.
-         </para>
-        </callout>
-        <callout arearefs='reviewing-rebase-3'>
-         <para>
-          Fetching the pull-request changes, <varname>PRNUMBER</varname> is the
-          number at the end of the pull-request title and
-          <varname>BASEBRANCH</varname> the base branch of the pull-request.
-         </para>
-        </callout>
-        <callout arearefs='reviewing-rebase-3'>
-         <para>
-          Rebasing the pull-request changes to the nixos-unstable branch.
-         </para>
-        </callout>
-       </calloutlist>
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       The <link xlink:href="https://github.com/madjar/nox">nox</link> tool can
-       be used to review a pull-request content in a single command. It doesn't
-       rebase on a channel branch so it might trigger multiple source builds.
-       <varname>PRNUMBER</varname> should be replaced by the number at the end
-       of the pull-request title.
-      </para>
-<screen>
-$ nix-shell -p nox --run "nox-review -k pr PRNUMBER"
-</screen>
-     </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Running every binary.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-  </itemizedlist>
-
-  <example>
-   <title>Sample template for a package update review</title>
-<screen>
-##### Reviewed points
-
-- [ ] package name fits guidelines
-- [ ] package version fits guidelines
-- [ ] package build on ARCHITECTURE
-- [ ] executables tested on ARCHITECTURE
-- [ ] all depending packages build
-
-##### Possible improvements
-
-##### Comments
-
-</screen>
-  </example>
- </section>
- <section>
-  <title>New packages</title>
-
-  <para>
-   New packages are a common type of pull-requests. These pull requests
-   consists in adding a new nix-expression for a package.
-  </para>
-
-  <para>
-   Reviewing process:
-  </para>
-
-  <itemizedlist>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Add labels to the pull-request. (Requires commit rights)
-    </para>
-    <itemizedlist>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       <literal>8.has: package (new)</literal> and any topic label that fit the
-       new package.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Ensure that the package versioning is fitting the guidelines.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Ensure that the commit name is fitting the guidelines.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Ensure that the meta field contains correct information.
-    </para>
-    <itemizedlist>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       License must be checked to be fitting upstream license.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       Platforms should be set or the package will not get binary substitutes.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       A maintainer must be set, this can be the package submitter or a
-       community member that accepts to take maintainership of the package.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Ensure that the code contains no typos.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Ensure the package source.
-    </para>
-    <itemizedlist>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       Mirrors urls should be used when available.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       The most appropriate function should be used (e.g. packages from GitHub
-       should use <literal>fetchFromGitHub</literal>).
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Building the package locally.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Running every binary.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-  </itemizedlist>
-
-  <example>
-   <title>Sample template for a new package review</title>
-<screen>
-##### Reviewed points
-
-- [ ] package path fits guidelines
-- [ ] package name fits guidelines
-- [ ] package version fits guidelines
-- [ ] package build on ARCHITECTURE
-- [ ] executables tested on ARCHITECTURE
-- [ ] `meta.description` is set and fits guidelines
-- [ ] `meta.license` fits upstream license
-- [ ] `meta.platforms` is set
-- [ ] `meta.maintainers` is set
-- [ ] build time only dependencies are declared in `nativeBuildInputs`
-- [ ] source is fetched using the appropriate function
-- [ ] phases are respected
-- [ ] patches that are remotely available are fetched with `fetchpatch`
-
-##### Possible improvements
-
-##### Comments
-
-</screen>
-  </example>
- </section>
- <section>
-  <title>Module updates</title>
-
-  <para>
-   Module updates are submissions changing modules in some ways. These often
-   contains changes to the options or introduce new options.
-  </para>
-
-  <para>
-   Reviewing process
-  </para>
-
-  <itemizedlist>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Add labels to the pull-request. (Requires commit rights)
-    </para>
-    <itemizedlist>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       <literal>8.has: module (update)</literal> and any topic label that fit
-       the module.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Ensure that the module maintainers are notified.
-    </para>
-    <itemizedlist>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       Mention-bot notify GitHub users based on the submitted changes, but it
-       can happen that it miss some of the package maintainers.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Ensure that the module tests, if any, are succeeding.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Ensure that the introduced options are correct.
-    </para>
-    <itemizedlist>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       Type should be appropriate (string related types differs in their
-       merging capabilities, <literal>optionSet</literal> and
-       <literal>string</literal> types are deprecated).
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       Description, default and example should be provided.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Ensure that option changes are backward compatible.
-    </para>
-    <itemizedlist>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       <literal>mkRenamedOptionModule</literal> and
-       <literal>mkAliasOptionModule</literal> functions provide way to make
-       option changes backward compatible.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Ensure that removed options are declared with
-     <literal>mkRemovedOptionModule</literal>
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Ensure that changes that are not backward compatible are mentioned in
-     release notes.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Ensure that documentations affected by the change is updated.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-  </itemizedlist>
-
-  <example>
-   <title>Sample template for a module update review</title>
-<screen>
-##### Reviewed points
-
-- [ ] changes are backward compatible
-- [ ] removed options are declared with `mkRemovedOptionModule`
-- [ ] changes that are not backward compatible are documented in release notes
-- [ ] module tests succeed on ARCHITECTURE
-- [ ] options types are appropriate
-- [ ] options description is set
-- [ ] options example is provided
-- [ ] documentation affected by the changes is updated
-
-##### Possible improvements
-
-##### Comments
-
-</screen>
-  </example>
- </section>
- <section>
-  <title>New modules</title>
-
-  <para>
-   New modules submissions introduce a new module to NixOS.
-  </para>
-
-  <itemizedlist>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Add labels to the pull-request. (Requires commit rights)
-    </para>
-    <itemizedlist>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       <literal>8.has: module (new)</literal> and any topic label that fit the
-       module.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Ensure that the module tests, if any, are succeeding.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Ensure that the introduced options are correct.
-    </para>
-    <itemizedlist>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       Type should be appropriate (string related types differs in their
-       merging capabilities, <literal>optionSet</literal> and
-       <literal>string</literal> types are deprecated).
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       Description, default and example should be provided.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Ensure that module <literal>meta</literal> field is present
-    </para>
-    <itemizedlist>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       Maintainers should be declared in <literal>meta.maintainers</literal>.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       Module documentation should be declared with
-       <literal>meta.doc</literal>.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Ensure that the module respect other modules functionality.
-    </para>
-    <itemizedlist>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       For example, enabling a module should not open firewall ports by
-       default.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-   </listitem>
-  </itemizedlist>
-
-  <example>
-   <title>Sample template for a new module review</title>
-<screen>
-##### Reviewed points
-
-- [ ] module path fits the guidelines
-- [ ] module tests succeed on ARCHITECTURE
-- [ ] options have appropriate types
-- [ ] options have default
-- [ ] options have example
-- [ ] options have descriptions
-- [ ] No unneeded package is added to environment.systemPackages
-- [ ] meta.maintainers is set
-- [ ] module documentation is declared in meta.doc
-
-##### Possible improvements
-
-##### Comments
-
-</screen>
-  </example>
- </section>
- <section>
-  <title>Other submissions</title>
-
-  <para>
-   Other type of submissions requires different reviewing steps.
-  </para>
-
-  <para>
-   If you consider having enough knowledge and experience in a topic and would
-   like to be a long-term reviewer for related submissions, please contact the
-   current reviewers for that topic. They will give you information about the
-   reviewing process. The main reviewers for a topic can be hard to find as
-   there is no list, but checking past pull-requests to see who reviewed or
-   git-blaming the code to see who committed to that topic can give some hints.
-  </para>
-
-  <para>
-   Container system, boot system and library changes are some examples of the
-   pull requests fitting this category.
-  </para>
- </section>
- <section>
-  <title>Merging pull-requests</title>
-
-  <para>
-   It is possible for community members that have enough knowledge and
-   experience on a special topic to contribute by merging pull requests.
-  </para>
-
-  <para>
-   TODO: add the procedure to request merging rights.
-  </para>
-
-<!--
-The following paragraph about how to deal with unactive contributors is just a
-proposition and should be modified to what the community agrees to be the right
-policy.
-
-<para>Please note that contributors with commit rights unactive for more than
-  three months will have their commit rights revoked.</para>
--->
-
-  <para>
-   In a case a contributor leaves definitively the Nix community, he should
-   create an issue or notify the mailing list with references of packages and
-   modules he maintains so the maintainership can be taken over by other
-   contributors.
-  </para>
- </section>
-</chapter>

doc/shell.nix

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{ pkgs ? import ../. {} }:
-(import ./default.nix).overrideAttrs (x: {
-  buildInputs = x.buildInputs ++ [ pkgs.xmloscopy pkgs.ruby ];
-
-})

doc/shell.section.md

@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
----
-title: pkgs.mkShell
-author: zimbatm
-date: 2017-10-30
----
-
-# mkShell
-
-pkgs.mkShell is a special kind of derivation that is only useful when using
-it combined with nix-shell. It will in fact fail to instantiate when invoked
-with nix-build.
-
-## Usage
-
-```nix
-{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }:
-pkgs.mkShell {
-  # this will make all the build inputs from hello and gnutar available to the shell environment
-  inputsFrom = with pkgs; [ hello gnutar ];
-  buildInputs = [ pkgs.gnumake ];
-}
-```

doc/style.css

@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ h2 /* chapters, appendices, subtitle */
 }
 
 /* Extra space between chapters, appendices. */
-div.chapter > div.titlepage h2, div.appendix > div.titlepage h2
-{
+div.chapter > div.titlepage h2, div.appendix > div.titlepage h2 
+{ 
     margin-top: 1.5em;
 }
 
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ pre.screen, pre.programlisting
     padding: 3px 3px;
     margin-left: 1.5em;
     margin-right: 1.5em;
-
+    color: #600000;
     background: #f4f4f8;
     font-family: monospace;
     border-radius: 0.4em;
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ div.example pre.programlisting
     margin: 0 0 0 0;
 }
 
+
 /***************************************************************************
                                Notes, warnings etc:
  ***************************************************************************/
@@ -171,7 +172,7 @@ div.navfooter *
 
 
 /***************************************************************************
-                        Links colors and highlighting:
+                        Links colors and highlighting: 
  ***************************************************************************/
 
 a { text-decoration: none; }
@@ -208,7 +209,7 @@ tt, code
 .term
 {
     font-weight: bold;
-
+    
 }
 
 div.variablelist dd p, div.glosslist dd p
@@ -248,24 +249,7 @@ table
     box-shadow: 0.4em 0.4em 0.5em #e0e0e0;
 }
 
-table.simplelist
-{
-    text-align: left;
-    color: #005aa0;
-    border: 0;
-    padding: 5px;
-    background: #fffff5;
-    font-weight: normal;
-    font-style: italic;
-    box-shadow: none;
-    margin-bottom: 1em;
-}
-
-div.navheader table, div.navfooter table {
-    box-shadow: none;
-}
-
 div.affiliation
 {
     font-style: italic;
-}
+}

doc/submitting-changes.xml

@@ -1,513 +1,320 @@
 <chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
          xml:id="chap-submitting-changes">
- <title>Submitting changes</title>
- <section>
-  <title>Making patches</title>
 
-  <itemizedlist>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Read <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/">Manual (How to
-     write packages for Nix)</link>.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Fork the repository on GitHub.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Create a branch for your future fix.
-     <itemizedlist>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        You can make branch from a commit of your local
-        <command>nixos-version</command>. That will help you to avoid
-        additional local compilations. Because you will receive packages from
-        binary cache.
-        <itemizedlist>
-         <listitem>
-          <para>
-           For example: <command>nixos-version</command> returns
-           <command>15.05.git.0998212 (Dingo)</command>. So you can do:
-          </para>
-         </listitem>
-        </itemizedlist>
+<title>Submitting changes</title>
+
+<section>
+<title>Making patches</title>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<para>Read <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/">Manual (How to write packages for Nix)</link>.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>Fork the repository on GitHub.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>Create a branch for your future fix.
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<para>You can make branch from a commit of your local <command>nixos-version</command>. That will help you to avoid additional local compilations. Because you will receive packages from binary cache.
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<para>For example: <command>nixos-version</command> returns <command>15.05.git.0998212 (Dingo)</command>. So you can do:</para>
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
 <screen>
 $ git checkout 0998212
 $ git checkout -b 'fix/pkg-name-update'
 </screen>
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        Please avoid working directly on the <command>master</command> branch.
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-     </itemizedlist>
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Make commits of logical units.
-     <itemizedlist>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        If you removed pkgs, made some major NixOS changes etc., write about
-        them in
-        <command>nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-unstable.xml</command>.
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-     </itemizedlist>
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Check for unnecessary whitespace with <command>git diff --check</command>
-     before committing.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Format the commit in a following way:
-    </para>
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>Please avoid working directly on the <command>master</command> branch.</para>
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>Make commits of logical units.
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<para>If you removed pkgs, made some major NixOS changes etc., write about them in <command>nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-unstable.xml</command>.</para>
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>Check for unnecessary whitespace with <command>git diff --check</command> before committing.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>Format the commit in a following way:</para>
 <programlisting>
-(pkg-name | nixos/&lt;module>): (from -> to | init at version | refactor | etc)
+(pkg-name | service-name): (from -> to | init at version | refactor | etc)
 Additional information.
 </programlisting>
-    <itemizedlist>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       Examples:
-       <itemizedlist>
-        <listitem>
-         <para>
-          <command>nginx: init at 2.0.1</command>
-         </para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-         <para>
-          <command>firefox: 54.0.1 -> 55.0</command>
-         </para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-         <para>
-          <command>nixos/hydra: add bazBaz option</command>
-         </para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-         <para>
-          <command>nixos/nginx: refactor config generation</command>
-         </para>
-        </listitem>
-       </itemizedlist>
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Test your changes. If you work with
-     <itemizedlist>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        nixpkgs:
-        <itemizedlist>
-         <listitem>
-          <para>
-           update pkg ->
-           <itemizedlist>
-            <listitem>
-             <para>
-              <command>nix-env -i pkg-name -f &lt;path to your local nixpkgs
-              folder&gt;</command>
-             </para>
-            </listitem>
-           </itemizedlist>
-          </para>
-         </listitem>
-         <listitem>
-          <para>
-           add pkg ->
-           <itemizedlist>
-            <listitem>
-             <para>
-              Make sure it's in
-              <command>pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix</command>
-             </para>
-            </listitem>
-            <listitem>
-             <para>
-              <command>nix-env -i pkg-name -f &lt;path to your local nixpkgs
-              folder&gt;</command>
-             </para>
-            </listitem>
-           </itemizedlist>
-          </para>
-         </listitem>
-         <listitem>
-          <para>
-           <emphasis>If you don't want to install pkg in you
-           profile</emphasis>.
-           <itemizedlist>
-            <listitem>
-             <para>
-              <command>nix-build -A pkg-attribute-name &lt;path to your local
-              nixpkgs folder&gt;/default.nix</command> and check results in the
-              folder <command>result</command>. It will appear in the same
-              directory where you did <command>nix-build</command>.
-             </para>
-            </listitem>
-           </itemizedlist>
-          </para>
-         </listitem>
-         <listitem>
-          <para>
-           If you did <command>nix-env -i pkg-name</command> you can do
-           <command>nix-env -e pkg-name</command> to uninstall it from your
-           system.
-          </para>
-         </listitem>
-        </itemizedlist>
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        NixOS and its modules:
-        <itemizedlist>
-         <listitem>
-          <para>
-           You can add new module to your NixOS configuration file (usually
-           it's <command>/etc/nixos/configuration.nix</command>). And do
-           <command>sudo nixos-rebuild test -I nixpkgs=&lt;path to your local
-           nixpkgs folder&gt; --fast</command>.
-          </para>
-         </listitem>
-        </itemizedlist>
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-     </itemizedlist>
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     If you have commits <command>pkg-name: oh, forgot to insert
-     whitespace</command>: squash commits in this case. Use <command>git rebase
-     -i</command>.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Rebase you branch against current <command>master</command>.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-  </itemizedlist>
- </section>
- <section>
-  <title>Submitting changes</title>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<para>Examples:
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<para>
+<command>nginx: init at 2.0.1</command>
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>
+<command>firefox: 3.0 -> 3.1.1</command>
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>
+<command>hydra service: add bazBaz option</command>
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>
+<command>nginx service: refactor config generation</command>
+</para>
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+</para>
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>Test your changes. If you work with
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<para>nixpkgs:
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<para>update pkg ->
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<para>
+<command>nix-env -i pkg-name -f &lt;path to your local nixpkgs folder&gt;</command>
+</para>
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>add pkg ->
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<para>Make sure it's in <command>pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix</command>
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>
+<command>nix-env -i pkg-name -f &lt;path to your local nixpkgs folder&gt;</command>
+</para>
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>
+<emphasis>If you don't want to install pkg in you profile</emphasis>.
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<para>
+<command>nix-build -A pkg-attribute-name &lt;path to your local nixpkgs folder&gt;/default.nix</command> and check results in the folder <command>result</command>. It will appear in the same directory where you did <command>nix-build</command>.</para>
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>If you did <command>nix-env -i pkg-name</command> you can do <command>nix-env -e pkg-name</command> to uninstall it from your system.</para>
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>NixOS and its modules:
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<para>You can add new module to your NixOS configuration file (usually it's <command>/etc/nixos/configuration.nix</command>).
+            And do <command>sudo nixos-rebuild test -I nixpkgs=&lt;path to your local nixpkgs folder&gt; --fast</command>.</para>
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+</para>
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>If you have commits <command>pkg-name: oh, forgot to insert whitespace</command>: squash commits in this case. Use <command>git rebase -i</command>.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>Rebase you branch against current <command>master</command>.</para>
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+</section>
+
+<section>
+<title>Submitting changes</title>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<para>Push your changes to your fork of nixpkgs.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>Create pull request:
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<para>Write the title in format <command>(pkg-name | service): improvement</command>.
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<para>If you update the pkg, write versions <command>from -> to</command>.</para>
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>Write in comment if you have tested your patch. Do not rely much on <command>TravisCI</command>.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>If you make an improvement, write about your motivation.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>Notify maintainers of the package. For example add to the message: <command>cc @jagajaga @domenkozar</command>.</para>
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+</para>
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+</section>
+
+<section>
+<title>Hotfixing pull requests</title>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<para>Make the appropriate changes in you branch.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>Don't create additional commits, do
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<para><command>git rebase -i</command></para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<para>
+<command>git push --force</command> to your branch.</para>
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+</para>
+</listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+</section>
+
+<section>
+<title>Commit policy</title>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<para>Commits must be sufficiently tested before being merged, both for the master and staging branches.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>Hydra builds for master and staging should not be used as testing platform, it's a build farm for changes that have been already tested.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>When changing the bootloader installation process, extra care must be taken. Grub installations cannot be rolled back, hence changes may break people's installations forever. For any non-trivial change to the bootloader please file a PR asking for review, especially from @edolstra.</para>
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<section>
+  <title>Master branch</title>
 
   <itemizedlist>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Push your changes to your fork of nixpkgs.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Create pull request:
-     <itemizedlist>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        Write the title in format <command>(pkg-name | nixos/&lt;module>):
-        improvement</command>.
-        <itemizedlist>
-         <listitem>
-          <para>
-           If you update the pkg, write versions <command>from -> to</command>.
-          </para>
-         </listitem>
-        </itemizedlist>
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        Write in comment if you have tested your patch. Do not rely much on
-        <command>TravisCI</command>.
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        If you make an improvement, write about your motivation.
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        Notify maintainers of the package. For example add to the message:
-        <command>cc @jagajaga @domenkozar</command>.
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-     </itemizedlist>
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        It should only see non-breaking commits that do not cause mass rebuilds.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
- </section>
- <section>
-  <title>Pull Request Template</title>
+</section>
 
-  <para>
-   The pull request template helps determine what steps have been made for a
-   contribution so far, and will help guide maintainers on the status of a
-   change. The motivation section of the PR should include any extra details
-   the title does not address and link any existing issues related to the pull
-   request.
-  </para>
-
-  <para>
-   When a PR is created, it will be pre-populated with some checkboxes detailed
-   below:
-  </para>
-
-  <section>
-   <title>Tested using sandboxing</title>
-
-   <para>
-    When sandbox builds are enabled, Nix will setup an isolated environment for
-    each build process. It is used to remove further hidden dependencies set by
-    the build environment to improve reproducibility. This includes access to
-    the network during the build outside of <function>fetch*</function>
-    functions and files outside the Nix store. Depending on the operating
-    system access to other resources are blocked as well (ex. inter process
-    communication is isolated on Linux); see
-    <link
-      xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#description-45">build-use-sandbox</link>
-    in Nix manual for details.
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-    Sandboxing is not enabled by default in Nix due to a small performance hit
-    on each build. In pull requests for
-    <link
-        xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/">nixpkgs</link>
-    people are asked to test builds with sandboxing enabled (see
-    <literal>Tested using sandboxing</literal> in the pull request template)
-    because
-    in<link
-        xlink:href="https://nixos.org/hydra/">https://nixos.org/hydra/</link>
-    sandboxing is also used.
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-    Depending if you use NixOS or other platforms you can use one of the
-    following methods to enable sandboxing
-    <emphasis role="bold">before</emphasis> building the package:
-    <itemizedlist>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       <emphasis role="bold">Globally enable sandboxing on NixOS</emphasis>:
-       add the following to <filename>configuration.nix</filename>
-<screen>nix.useSandbox = true;</screen>
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       <emphasis role="bold">Globally enable sandboxing on non-NixOS
-       platforms</emphasis>: add the following to:
-       <filename>/etc/nix/nix.conf</filename>
-<screen>build-use-sandbox = true</screen>
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-   </para>
-  </section>
-
-  <section>
-   <title>Built on platform(s)</title>
-
-   <para>
-    Many Nix packages are designed to run on multiple platforms. As such, it's
-    important to let the maintainer know which platforms your changes have been
-    tested on. It's not always practical to test a change on all platforms, and
-    is not required for a pull request to be merged. Only check the systems you
-    tested the build on in this section.
-   </para>
-  </section>
-
-  <section>
-   <title>Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)</title>
-
-   <para>
-    Packages with automated tests are much more likely to be merged in a timely
-    fashion because it doesn't require as much manual testing by the maintainer
-    to verify the functionality of the package. If there are existing tests for
-    the package, they should be run to verify your changes do not break the
-    tests. Tests only apply to packages with NixOS modules defined and can only
-    be run on Linux. For more details on writing and running tests, see the
-    <link
-        xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-nixos-tests">section
-    in the NixOS manual</link>.
-   </para>
-  </section>
-
-  <section>
-   <title>Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using <command>nox-review</command></title>
-
-   <para>
-    If you are updating a package's version, you can use nox to make sure all
-    packages that depend on the updated package still compile correctly. This
-    can be done using the nox utility. The <command>nox-review</command>
-    utility can look for and build all dependencies either based on uncommited
-    changes with the <literal>wip</literal> option or specifying a github pull
-    request number.
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-    review uncommitted changes:
-<screen>nix-shell -p nox --run nox-review wip</screen>
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-    review changes from pull request number 12345:
-<screen>nix-shell -p nox --run nox-review pr 12345</screen>
-   </para>
-  </section>
-
-  <section>
-   <title>Tested execution of all binary files (usually in <filename>./result/bin/</filename>)</title>
-
-   <para>
-    It's important to test any executables generated by a build when you change
-    or create a package in nixpkgs. This can be done by looking in
-    <filename>./result/bin</filename> and running any files in there, or at a
-    minimum, the main executable for the package. For example, if you make a
-    change to <package>texlive</package>, you probably would only check the
-    binaries associated with the change you made rather than testing all of
-    them.
-   </para>
-  </section>
-
-  <section>
-   <title>Meets nixpkgs contribution standards</title>
-
-   <para>
-    The last checkbox is fits
-    <link
-        xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md">CONTRIBUTING.md</link>.
-    The contributing document has detailed information on standards the Nix
-    community has for commit messages, reviews, licensing of contributions you
-    make to the project, etc... Everyone should read and understand the
-    standards the community has for contributing before submitting a pull
-    request.
-   </para>
-  </section>
- </section>
- <section>
-  <title>Hotfixing pull requests</title>
+<section>
+  <title>Staging branch</title>
 
   <itemizedlist>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Make the appropriate changes in you branch.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Don't create additional commits, do
-     <itemizedlist>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        <command>git rebase -i</command>
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-       <para>
-        <command>git push --force</command> to your branch.
-       </para>
-      </listitem>
-     </itemizedlist>
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        It's only for non-breaking mass-rebuild commits. That means it's not to
+        be used for testing, and changes must have been well tested already.
+        <link xlink:href="http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/13447">Read policy here</link>.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        If the branch is already in a broken state, please refrain from adding
+        extra new breakages. Stabilize it for a few days, merge into master,
+        then resume development on staging.
+        <link xlink:href="http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/staging#tabs-evaluations">Keep an eye on the staging evaluations here</link>.
+        If any fixes for staging happen to be already in master, then master can
+        be merged into staging.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
- </section>
- <section>
-  <title>Commit policy</title>
+</section>
+
+<section>
+  <title>Stable release branches</title>
 
   <itemizedlist>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Commits must be sufficiently tested before being merged, both for the
-     master and staging branches.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     Hydra builds for master and staging should not be used as testing
-     platform, it's a build farm for changes that have been already tested.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-   <listitem>
-    <para>
-     When changing the bootloader installation process, extra care must be
-     taken. Grub installations cannot be rolled back, hence changes may break
-     people's installations forever. For any non-trivial change to the
-     bootloader please file a PR asking for review, especially from @edolstra.
-    </para>
-   </listitem>
-  </itemizedlist>
-
-  <section>
-   <title>Master branch</title>
-
-   <itemizedlist>
     <listitem>
-     <para>
-      It should only see non-breaking commits that do not cause mass rebuilds.
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-   </itemizedlist>
-  </section>
-
-  <section>
-   <title>Staging branch</title>
-
-   <itemizedlist>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      It's only for non-breaking mass-rebuild commits. That means it's not to
-      be used for testing, and changes must have been well tested already.
-      <link xlink:href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160528180406/http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/13447">Read
-      policy here</link>.
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      If the branch is already in a broken state, please refrain from adding
-      extra new breakages. Stabilize it for a few days, merge into master, then
-      resume development on staging.
-      <link xlink:href="http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/staging#tabs-evaluations">Keep
-      an eye on the staging evaluations here</link>. If any fixes for staging
-      happen to be already in master, then master can be merged into staging.
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-   </itemizedlist>
-  </section>
-
-  <section>
-   <title>Stable release branches</title>
-
-   <itemizedlist>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      If you're cherry-picking a commit to a stable release branch, always use
-      <command>git cherry-pick -xe</command> and ensure the message contains a
-      clear description about why this needs to be included in the stable
-      branch.
-     </para>
-     <para>
-      An example of a cherry-picked commit would look like this:
-     </para>
-<screen>
+      <para>
+        If you're cherry-picking a commit to a stable release branch, always use
+        <command>git cherry-pick -xe</command> and ensure the message contains a
+        clear description about why this needs to be included in the stable
+        branch.
+      </para>
+      <para>An example of a cherry-picked commit would look like this:</para>
+      <screen>
 nixos: Refactor the world.
 
 The original commit message describing the reason why the world was torn apart.
@@ -517,7 +324,9 @@ Reason: I just had a gut feeling that this would also be wanted by people from
 the stone age.
       </screen>
     </listitem>
-   </itemizedlist>
-  </section>
- </section>
+  </itemizedlist>
+</section>
+
+</section>
 </chapter>
+

lib/attrsets.nix

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-{ lib }:
 # Operations on attribute sets.
 
-let
+with {
   inherit (builtins) head tail length;
-  inherit (lib.trivial) and or;
-  inherit (lib.strings) concatStringsSep;
-  inherit (lib.lists) fold concatMap concatLists all deepSeqList;
-in
+  inherit (import ./trivial.nix) or;
+  inherit (import ./default.nix) fold;
+  inherit (import ./strings.nix) concatStringsSep;
+  inherit (import ./lists.nix) concatMap concatLists all deepSeqList;
+};
 
 rec {
   inherit (builtins) attrNames listToAttrs hasAttr isAttrs getAttr;
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ rec {
     listToAttrs (concatMap (name: let v = set.${name}; in if pred name v then [(nameValuePair name v)] else []) (attrNames set));
 
 
-  /* Filter an attribute set recursively by removing all attributes for
+  /* Filter an attribute set recursivelly by removing all attributes for
      which the given predicate return false.
 
      Example:
@@ -296,17 +296,12 @@ rec {
 
   /* Converts a store path to a fake derivation. */
   toDerivation = path:
-    let
-      path' = builtins.storePath path;
-      res =
-        { type = "derivation";
-          name = builtins.unsafeDiscardStringContext (builtins.substring 33 (-1) (baseNameOf path'));
-          outPath = path';
-          outputs = [ "out" ];
-          out = res;
-          outputName = "out";
-        };
-    in res;
+    let path' = builtins.storePath path; in
+    { type = "derivation";
+      name = builtins.unsafeDiscardStringContext (builtins.substring 33 (-1) (baseNameOf path'));
+      outPath = path';
+      outputs = [ "out" ];
+    };
 
 
   /* If `cond' is true, return the attribute set `as',
@@ -334,7 +329,7 @@ rec {
       value = f name (catAttrs name sets);
     }) names);
 
-  /* Implementation note: Common names  appear multiple times in the list of
+  /* Implentation note: Common names  appear multiple times in the list of
      names, hopefully this does not affect the system because the maximal
      laziness avoid computing twice the same expression and listToAttrs does
      not care about duplicated attribute names.
@@ -353,7 +348,7 @@ rec {
   zipAttrs = zipAttrsWith (name: values: values);
 
   /* Does the same as the update operator '//' except that attributes are
-     merged until the given predicate is verified.  The predicate should
+     merged until the given pedicate is verified.  The predicate should
      accept 3 arguments which are the path to reach the attribute, a part of
      the first attribute set and a part of the second attribute set.  When
      the predicate is verified, the value of the first attribute set is
@@ -391,7 +386,7 @@ rec {
       );
     in f [] [rhs lhs];
 
-  /* A recursive variant of the update operator ‘//’.  The recursion
+  /* A recursive variant of the update operator ‘//’.  The recusion
      stops when one of the attribute values is not an attribute set,
      in which case the right hand side value takes precedence over the
      left hand side value.
@@ -417,15 +412,18 @@ rec {
 
   /* Returns true if the pattern is contained in the set. False otherwise.
 
+     FIXME(zimbatm): this example doesn't work !!!
+
      Example:
-       matchAttrs { cpu = {}; } { cpu = { bits = 64; }; }
+       sys = mkSystem { }
+       matchAttrs { cpu = { bits = 64; }; } sys
        => true
    */
-  matchAttrs = pattern: attrs: assert isAttrs pattern;
-    fold and true (attrValues (zipAttrsWithNames (attrNames pattern) (n: values:
+  matchAttrs = pattern: attrs:
+    fold or false (attrValues (zipAttrsWithNames (attrNames pattern) (n: values:
       let pat = head values; val = head (tail values); in
       if length values == 1 then false
-      else if isAttrs pat then isAttrs val && matchAttrs pat val
+      else if isAttrs pat then isAttrs val && matchAttrs head values
       else pat == val
     ) [pattern attrs]));
 
@@ -456,8 +454,6 @@ rec {
   getLib = getOutput "lib";
   getDev = getOutput "dev";
 
-  /* Pick the outputs of packages to place in buildInputs */
-  chooseDevOutputs = drvs: builtins.map getDev drvs;
 
   /*** deprecated stuff ***/
 

lib/composable-derivation.nix

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{lib, pkgs}:
+{lib, pkgs} :
 let inherit (lib) nv nvs; in
 {
 
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ let inherit (lib) nv nvs; in
   # * vim_configurable
   #
   # A minimal example illustrating most features would look like this:
-  # let base = composableDerivation { (fixed: let inherit (fixed.fixed) name in {
+  # let base = composableDerivation { (fixed : let inherit (fixed.fixed) name in {
   #    src = fetchurl {
   #    }
   #    buildInputs = [A];
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ let inherit (lib) nv nvs; in
   #
   # issues:
   # * its complicated to understand
-  # * some "features" such as exact merge behaviour are buried in mergeAttrBy
+  # * some "features" such as exact merge behaviour are burried in mergeAttrBy
   #   and defaultOverridableDelayableArgs assuming the default behaviour does
   #   the right thing in the common case
   # * Eelco once said using such fix style functions are slow to evaluate
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ let inherit (lib) nv nvs; in
   #   / add patches the way you want without having to declare function arguments
   #
   # nice features:
-  # declaring "optional features" is modular. For instance:
+  # declaring "optional featuers" is modular. For instance:
   #   flags.curl = {
   #     configureFlags = ["--with-curl=${curl.dev}" "--with-curlwrappers"];
   #     buildInputs = [curl openssl];
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ let inherit (lib) nv nvs; in
         # consider adding addtional elements by derivation.merge { removeAttrs = ["elem"]; };
         removeAttrs ? ["cfg" "flags"]
 
-      }: (lib.defaultOverridableDelayableArgs ( a: mkDerivation a)
+      }: (lib.defaultOverridableDelayableArgs ( a: mkDerivation a) 
          {
            inherit applyPreTidy removeAttrs;
          }).merge;

lib/customisation.nix

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-{ lib }:
 let
 
-  inherit (builtins) attrNames;
+  lib = import ./default.nix;
+  inherit (builtins) attrNames isFunction;
 
 in
 
@@ -10,15 +10,15 @@ rec {
 
   /* `overrideDerivation drv f' takes a derivation (i.e., the result
      of a call to the builtin function `derivation') and returns a new
-     derivation in which the attributes of the original are overridden
+     derivation in which the attributes of the original are overriden
      according to the function `f'.  The function `f' is called with
      the original derivation attributes.
 
      `overrideDerivation' allows certain "ad-hoc" customisation
-     scenarios (e.g. in ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix).  For instance,
-     if you want to "patch" the derivation returned by a package
-     function in Nixpkgs to build another version than what the
-     function itself provides, you can do something like this:
+     scenarios (e.g. in ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix).  For instance, if you
+     want to "patch" the derivation returned by a package function in
+     Nixpkgs to build another version than what the function itself
+     provides, you can do something like this:
 
        mySed = overrideDerivation pkgs.gnused (oldAttrs: {
          name = "sed-4.2.2-pre";
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ rec {
   overrideDerivation = drv: f:
     let
       newDrv = derivation (drv.drvAttrs // (f drv));
-    in lib.flip (extendDerivation true) newDrv (
+    in addPassthru newDrv (
       { meta = drv.meta or {};
         passthru = if drv ? passthru then drv.passthru else {};
       }
@@ -51,41 +51,21 @@ rec {
        else { }));
 
 
-  /* `makeOverridable` takes a function from attribute set to attribute set and
-     injects `override` attibute which can be used to override arguments of
-     the function.
-
-       nix-repl> x = {a, b}: { result = a + b; }
-
-       nix-repl> y = lib.makeOverridable x { a = 1; b = 2; }
-
-       nix-repl> y
-       { override = «lambda»; overrideDerivation = «lambda»; result = 3; }
-
-       nix-repl> y.override { a = 10; }
-       { override = «lambda»; overrideDerivation = «lambda»; result = 12; }
-
-     Please refer to "Nixpkgs Contributors Guide" section
-     "<pkg>.overrideDerivation" to learn about `overrideDerivation` and caveats
-     related to its use.
-  */
   makeOverridable = f: origArgs:
     let
       ff = f origArgs;
-      overrideWith = newArgs: origArgs // (if lib.isFunction newArgs then newArgs origArgs else newArgs);
+      overrideWith = newArgs: origArgs // (if builtins.isFunction newArgs then newArgs origArgs else newArgs);
     in
-      if builtins.isAttrs ff then (ff // {
-        override = newArgs: makeOverridable f (overrideWith newArgs);
-        overrideDerivation = fdrv:
-          makeOverridable (args: overrideDerivation (f args) fdrv) origArgs;
-        ${if ff ? overrideAttrs then "overrideAttrs" else null} = fdrv:
-          makeOverridable (args: (f args).overrideAttrs fdrv) origArgs;
-      })
-      else if lib.isFunction ff then {
-        override = newArgs: makeOverridable f (overrideWith newArgs);
-        __functor = self: ff;
-        overrideDerivation = throw "overrideDerivation not yet supported for functors";
-      }
+      if builtins.isAttrs ff then (ff //
+        { override = newArgs: makeOverridable f (overrideWith newArgs);
+          overrideDerivation = fdrv:
+            makeOverridable (args: overrideDerivation (f args) fdrv) origArgs;
+        })
+      else if builtins.isFunction ff then
+        { override = newArgs: makeOverridable f (overrideWith newArgs);
+          __functor = self: ff;
+          overrideDerivation = throw "overrideDerivation not yet supported for functors";
+        }
       else ff;
 
 
@@ -112,8 +92,8 @@ rec {
   */
   callPackageWith = autoArgs: fn: args:
     let
-      f = if lib.isFunction fn then fn else import fn;
-      auto = builtins.intersectAttrs (lib.functionArgs f) autoArgs;
+      f = if builtins.isFunction fn then fn else import fn;
+      auto = builtins.intersectAttrs (builtins.functionArgs f) autoArgs;
     in makeOverridable f (auto // args);
 
 
@@ -122,17 +102,19 @@ rec {
      individual attributes. */
   callPackagesWith = autoArgs: fn: args:
     let
-      f = if lib.isFunction fn then fn else import fn;
-      auto = builtins.intersectAttrs (lib.functionArgs f) autoArgs;
-      origArgs = auto // args;
-      pkgs = f origArgs;
-      mkAttrOverridable = name: pkg: makeOverridable (newArgs: (f newArgs).${name}) origArgs;
+      f = if builtins.isFunction fn then fn else import fn;
+      auto = builtins.intersectAttrs (builtins.functionArgs f) autoArgs;
+      finalArgs = auto // args;
+      pkgs = f finalArgs;
+      mkAttrOverridable = name: pkg: pkg // {
+        override = newArgs: mkAttrOverridable name (f (finalArgs // newArgs)).${name};
+      };
     in lib.mapAttrs mkAttrOverridable pkgs;
 
 
   /* Add attributes to each output of a derivation without changing
-     the derivation itself and check a given condition when evaluating. */
-  extendDerivation = condition: passthru: drv:
+     the derivation itself. */
+  addPassthru = drv: passthru:
     let
       outputs = drv.outputs or [ "out" ];
 
@@ -142,18 +124,13 @@ rec {
       outputToAttrListElement = outputName:
         { name = outputName;
           value = commonAttrs // {
-            inherit (drv.${outputName}) type outputName;
-            drvPath = assert condition; drv.${outputName}.drvPath;
-            outPath = assert condition; drv.${outputName}.outPath;
+            inherit (drv.${outputName}) outPath drvPath type outputName;
           };
         };
 
       outputsList = map outputToAttrListElement outputs;
-    in commonAttrs // {
-      outputUnspecified = true;
-      drvPath = assert condition; drv.drvPath;
-      outPath = assert condition; drv.outPath;
-    };
+  in commonAttrs // { outputUnspecified = true; };
+
 
   /* Strip a derivation of all non-essential attributes, returning
      only those needed by hydra-eval-jobs. Also strictly evaluate the
@@ -190,7 +167,7 @@ rec {
   /* Make a set of packages with a common scope. All packages called
      with the provided `callPackage' will be evaluated with the same
      arguments. Any package in the set may depend on any other. The
-     `overrideScope' function allows subsequent modification of the package
+     `override' function allows subsequent modification of the package
      set in a consistent way, i.e. all packages in the set will be
      called with the overridden packages. The package sets may be
      hierarchical: the packages in the set are called with the scope
@@ -200,10 +177,9 @@ rec {
     let self = f self // {
           newScope = scope: newScope (self // scope);
           callPackage = self.newScope {};
-          overrideScope = g:
-            makeScope newScope
-            (self_: let super = f self_; in super // g super self_);
-          packages = f;
+          override = g: makeScope newScope (self_:
+            let super = f self_;
+            in super // g super self_);
         };
     in self;
 

lib/debug.nix

@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
-{ lib }:
+let lib = import ./default.nix;
 
-let
-
-inherit (builtins) trace attrNamesToStr isAttrs isList isInt
+inherit (builtins) trace attrNamesToStr isAttrs isFunction isList isInt
         isString isBool head substring attrNames;
 
-inherit (lib) all id mapAttrsFlatten elem isFunction;
+inherit (lib) all id mapAttrsFlatten elem;
 
 in
 
@@ -22,38 +20,14 @@ rec {
   traceXMLValMarked = str: x: trace (str + builtins.toXML x) x;
 
   # strict trace functions (traced structure is fully evaluated and printed)
-
-  /* `builtins.trace`, but the value is `builtins.deepSeq`ed first. */
   traceSeq = x: y: trace (builtins.deepSeq x x) y;
-
-  /* Like `traceSeq`, but only down to depth n.
-   * This is very useful because lots of `traceSeq` usages
-   * lead to an infinite recursion.
-   */
-  traceSeqN = depth: x: y: with lib;
-    let snip = v: if      isList  v then noQuotes "[…]" v
-                  else if isAttrs v then noQuotes "{…}" v
-                  else v;
-        noQuotes = str: v: { __pretty = const str; val = v; };
-        modify = n: fn: v: if (n == 0) then fn v
-                      else if isList  v then map (modify (n - 1) fn) v
-                      else if isAttrs v then mapAttrs
-                        (const (modify (n - 1) fn)) v
-                      else v;
-    in trace (generators.toPretty { allowPrettyValues = true; }
-               (modify depth snip x)) y;
-
-  /* `traceSeq`, but the same value is traced and returned */
   traceValSeq = v: traceVal (builtins.deepSeq v v);
-  /* `traceValSeq` but with fixed depth */
-  traceValSeqN = depth: v: traceSeqN depth v v;
-
 
   # this can help debug your code as well - designed to not produce thousands of lines
-  traceShowVal = x: trace (showVal x) x;
+  traceShowVal = x : trace (showVal x) x;
   traceShowValMarked = str: x: trace (str + showVal x) x;
-  attrNamesToStr = a: lib.concatStringsSep "; " (map (x: "${x}=") (attrNames a));
-  showVal = x:
+  attrNamesToStr = a : lib.concatStringsSep "; " (map (x : "${x}=") (attrNames a));
+  showVal = x :
       if isAttrs x then
           if x ? outPath then "x is a derivation, name ${if x ? name then x.name else "<no name>"}, { ${attrNamesToStr x} }"
           else "x is attr set { ${attrNamesToStr x} }"
@@ -69,9 +43,9 @@ rec {
 
   # trace the arguments passed to function and its result
   # maybe rewrite these functions in a traceCallXml like style. Then one function is enough
-  traceCall  = n: f: a: let t = n2: x: traceShowValMarked "${n} ${n2}:" x; in t "result" (f (t "arg 1" a));
-  traceCall2 = n: f: a: b: let t = n2: x: traceShowValMarked "${n} ${n2}:" x; in t "result" (f (t "arg 1" a) (t "arg 2" b));
-  traceCall3 = n: f: a: b: c: let t = n2: x: traceShowValMarked "${n} ${n2}:" x; in t "result" (f (t "arg 1" a) (t "arg 2" b) (t "arg 3" c));
+  traceCall  = n : f : a : let t = n2 : x : traceShowValMarked "${n} ${n2}:" x; in t "result" (f (t "arg 1" a));
+  traceCall2 = n : f : a : b : let t = n2 : x : traceShowValMarked "${n} ${n2}:" x; in t "result" (f (t "arg 1" a) (t "arg 2" b));
+  traceCall3 = n : f : a : b : c : let t = n2 : x : traceShowValMarked "${n} ${n2}:" x; in t "result" (f (t "arg 1" a) (t "arg 2" b) (t "arg 3" c));
 
   # FIXME: rename this?
   traceValIfNot = c: x:
@@ -97,7 +71,7 @@ rec {
 
   # create a test assuming that list elements are true
   # usage: { testX = allTrue [ true ]; }
-  testAllTrue = expr: { inherit expr; expected = map (x: true) expr; };
+  testAllTrue = expr : { inherit expr; expected = map (x: true) expr; };
 
   strict = v:
     trace "Warning: strict is deprecated and will be removed in the next release"

lib/default.nix

@@ -1,132 +1,31 @@
-/* Library of low-level helper functions for nix expressions.
- *
- * Please implement (mostly) exhaustive unit tests
- * for new functions in `./tests.nix'.
- */
-let
+let 
 
-  callLibs = file: import file { inherit lib; };
+  trivial = import ./trivial.nix;
+  lists = import ./lists.nix;
+  strings = import ./strings.nix;
+  stringsWithDeps = import ./strings-with-deps.nix;
+  attrsets = import ./attrsets.nix;
+  sources = import ./sources.nix;
+  modules = import ./modules.nix;
+  options = import ./options.nix;
+  types = import ./types.nix;
+  meta = import ./meta.nix;
+  debug = import ./debug.nix;
+  misc = import ./deprecated.nix;
+  maintainers = import ./maintainers.nix;
+  platforms = import ./platforms.nix;
+  systems = import ./systems.nix;
+  customisation = import ./customisation.nix;
+  licenses = import ./licenses.nix;
+  sandbox = import ./sandbox.nix;
 
-  lib = rec {
-
-    # often used, or depending on very little
-    trivial = callLibs ./trivial.nix;
-    fixedPoints = callLibs ./fixed-points.nix;
-
-    # datatypes
-    attrsets = callLibs ./attrsets.nix;
-    lists = callLibs ./lists.nix;
-    strings = callLibs ./strings.nix;
-    stringsWithDeps = callLibs ./strings-with-deps.nix;
-
-    # packaging
-    customisation = callLibs ./customisation.nix;
-    maintainers = import ../maintainers/maintainer-list.nix;
-    meta = callLibs ./meta.nix;
-    sources = callLibs ./sources.nix;
-    versions = callLibs ./versions.nix;
-
-    # module system
-    modules = callLibs ./modules.nix;
-    options = callLibs ./options.nix;
-    types = callLibs ./types.nix;
-
-    # constants
-    licenses = callLibs ./licenses.nix;
-    systems = callLibs ./systems;
-
-    # misc
-    debug = callLibs ./debug.nix;
-
-    generators = callLibs ./generators.nix;
-    misc = callLibs ./deprecated.nix;
-    # domain-specific
-    fetchers = callLibs ./fetchers.nix;
-
-    # Eval-time filesystem handling
-    filesystem = callLibs ./filesystem.nix;
-
-    # back-compat aliases
-    platforms = systems.forMeta;
-
-    inherit (builtins) add addErrorContext attrNames
-      concatLists deepSeq elem elemAt filter genericClosure genList
-      getAttr hasAttr head isAttrs isBool isInt isList
-      isString length lessThan listToAttrs pathExists readFile
-      replaceStrings seq stringLength sub substring tail;
-    inherit (trivial) id const concat or and boolToString mergeAttrs
-      flip mapNullable inNixShell min max importJSON warn info
-      nixpkgsVersion mod compare splitByAndCompare
-      functionArgs setFunctionArgs isFunction;
-
-    inherit (fixedPoints) fix fix' extends composeExtensions
-      makeExtensible makeExtensibleWithCustomName;
-    inherit (attrsets) attrByPath hasAttrByPath setAttrByPath
-      getAttrFromPath attrVals attrValues catAttrs filterAttrs
-      filterAttrsRecursive foldAttrs collect nameValuePair mapAttrs
-      mapAttrs' mapAttrsToList mapAttrsRecursive mapAttrsRecursiveCond
-      genAttrs isDerivation toDerivation optionalAttrs
-      zipAttrsWithNames zipAttrsWith zipAttrs recursiveUpdateUntil
-      recursiveUpdate matchAttrs overrideExisting getOutput getBin
-      getLib getDev chooseDevOutputs zipWithNames zip;
-    inherit (lists) singleton foldr fold foldl foldl' imap0 imap1
-      concatMap flatten remove findSingle findFirst any all count
-      optional optionals toList range partition zipListsWith zipLists
-      reverseList listDfs toposort sort compareLists take drop sublist
-      last init crossLists unique intersectLists subtractLists
-      mutuallyExclusive;
-    inherit (strings) concatStrings concatMapStrings concatImapStrings
-      intersperse concatStringsSep concatMapStringsSep
-      concatImapStringsSep makeSearchPath makeSearchPathOutput
-      makeLibraryPath makeBinPath makePerlPath optionalString
-      hasPrefix hasSuffix stringToCharacters stringAsChars escape
-      escapeShellArg escapeShellArgs replaceChars lowerChars upperChars
-      toLower toUpper addContextFrom splitString removePrefix
-      removeSuffix versionOlder versionAtLeast getVersion nameFromURL
-      enableFeature fixedWidthString fixedWidthNumber isStorePath
-      toInt readPathsFromFile fileContents;
-    inherit (stringsWithDeps) textClosureList textClosureMap
-      noDepEntry fullDepEntry packEntry stringAfter;
-    inherit (customisation) overrideDerivation makeOverridable
-      callPackageWith callPackagesWith extendDerivation
-      hydraJob makeScope;
-    inherit (meta) addMetaAttrs dontDistribute setName updateName
-      appendToName mapDerivationAttrset lowPrio lowPrioSet hiPrio
-      hiPrioSet;
-    inherit (sources) pathType pathIsDirectory cleanSourceFilter
-      cleanSource sourceByRegex sourceFilesBySuffices
-      commitIdFromGitRepo cleanSourceWith pathHasContext canCleanSource;
-    inherit (modules) evalModules closeModules unifyModuleSyntax
-      applyIfFunction unpackSubmodule packSubmodule mergeModules
-      mergeModules' mergeOptionDecls evalOptionValue mergeDefinitions
-      pushDownProperties dischargeProperties filterOverrides
-      sortProperties fixupOptionType mkIf mkAssert mkMerge mkOverride
-      mkOptionDefault mkDefault mkForce mkVMOverride mkStrict
-      mkFixStrictness mkOrder mkBefore mkAfter mkAliasDefinitions
-      mkAliasAndWrapDefinitions fixMergeModules mkRemovedOptionModule
-      mkRenamedOptionModule mkMergedOptionModule mkChangedOptionModule
-      mkAliasOptionModule doRename filterModules;
-    inherit (options) isOption mkEnableOption mkSinkUndeclaredOptions
-      mergeDefaultOption mergeOneOption mergeEqualOption getValues
-      getFiles optionAttrSetToDocList optionAttrSetToDocList'
-      scrubOptionValue literalExample showOption showFiles
-      unknownModule mkOption;
-    inherit (types) isType setType defaultTypeMerge defaultFunctor
-      isOptionType mkOptionType;
-    inherit (debug) addErrorContextToAttrs traceIf traceVal
-      traceXMLVal traceXMLValMarked traceSeq traceSeqN traceValSeq
-      traceValSeqN traceShowVal traceShowValMarked
-      showVal traceCall traceCall2 traceCall3 traceValIfNot runTests
-      testAllTrue strict traceCallXml attrNamesToStr;
-    inherit (misc) maybeEnv defaultMergeArg defaultMerge foldArgs
-      defaultOverridableDelayableArgs composedArgsAndFun
-      maybeAttrNullable maybeAttr ifEnable checkFlag getValue
-      checkReqs uniqList uniqListExt condConcat lazyGenericClosure
-      innerModifySumArgs modifySumArgs innerClosePropagation
-      closePropagation mapAttrsFlatten nvs setAttr setAttrMerge
-      mergeAttrsWithFunc mergeAttrsConcatenateValues
-      mergeAttrsNoOverride mergeAttrByFunc mergeAttrsByFuncDefaults
-      mergeAttrsByFuncDefaultsClean mergeAttrBy
-      prepareDerivationArgs nixType imap overridableDelayableArgs;
-  };
-in lib
+in
+  { inherit trivial lists strings stringsWithDeps attrsets sources options
+      modules types meta debug maintainers licenses platforms systems sandbox;
+  }
+  # !!! don't include everything at top-level; perhaps only the most
+  # commonly used functions.
+  // trivial // lists // strings // stringsWithDeps // attrsets // sources
+  // options // types // meta // debug // misc // modules
+  // systems
+  // customisation

lib/deprecated.nix

@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
-{ lib }:
-let
-    inherit (builtins) head tail isList isAttrs isInt attrNames;
+let lib = import ./default.nix;
+    inherit (builtins) isFunction head tail isList isAttrs isInt attrNames;
 
 in
 
-with lib.lists;
-with lib.attrsets;
-with lib.strings;
+with import ./lists.nix;
+with import ./attrsets.nix;
+with import ./strings.nix;
 
 rec {
 
@@ -17,23 +16,23 @@ rec {
 
   defaultMergeArg = x : y: if builtins.isAttrs y then
     y
-  else
+  else 
     (y x);
   defaultMerge = x: y: x // (defaultMergeArg x y);
-  foldArgs = merger: f: init: x:
-    let arg = (merger init (defaultMergeArg init x));
-        # now add the function with composed args already applied to the final attrs
-        base = (setAttrMerge "passthru" {} (f arg)
-                        ( z: z // rec {
-                            function = foldArgs merger f arg;
-                            args = (lib.attrByPath ["passthru" "args"] {} z) // x;
+  foldArgs = merger: f: init: x: 
+    let arg=(merger init (defaultMergeArg init x));
+      # now add the function with composed args already applied to the final attrs
+        base = (setAttrMerge "passthru" {} (f arg) 
+                        ( z : z // rec { 
+                          function = foldArgs merger f arg; 
+			  args = (lib.attrByPath ["passthru" "args"] {} z) // x;
                           } ));
-        withStdOverrides = base // {
-          override = base.passthru.function;
-        };
+	withStdOverrides = base // {
+	   override = base.passthru.function;
+	   } ;
         in
-          withStdOverrides;
-
+	withStdOverrides;
+    
 
   # predecessors: proposed replacement for applyAndFun (which has a bug cause it merges twice)
   # the naming "overridableDelayableArgs" tries to express that you can
@@ -50,35 +49,35 @@ rec {
   #
   # examples: see test cases "res" below;
   overridableDelayableArgs =
-          f:        # the function applied to the arguments
-          initial:  # you pass attrs, the functions below are passing a function taking the fix argument
+          f :        # the function applied to the arguments
+          initial :  # you pass attrs, the functions below are passing a function taking the fix argument
     let
-        takeFixed = if lib.isFunction initial then initial else (fixed : initial); # transform initial to an expression always taking the fixed argument
-        tidy = args:
+        takeFixed = if isFunction initial then initial else (fixed : initial); # transform initial to an expression always taking the fixed argument
+        tidy = args : 
             let # apply all functions given in "applyPreTidy" in sequence
-                applyPreTidyFun = fold ( n: a: x: n ( a x ) ) lib.id (maybeAttr "applyPreTidy" [] args);
+                applyPreTidyFun = fold ( n : a : x : n ( a x ) ) lib.id (maybeAttr "applyPreTidy" [] args);
             in removeAttrs (applyPreTidyFun args) ( ["applyPreTidy"] ++ (maybeAttr  "removeAttrs" [] args) ); # tidy up args before applying them
-        fun = n: x:
-            let newArgs = fixed:
-                    let args = takeFixed fixed;
-                        mergeFun = args.${n};
-                    in if isAttrs x then (mergeFun args x)
-                       else assert lib.isFunction x;
-                            mergeFun args (x ( args // { inherit fixed; }));
-            in overridableDelayableArgs f newArgs;
+        fun = n : x :
+             let newArgs = fixed :
+                     let args = takeFixed fixed; 
+                         mergeFun = args.${n};
+                     in if isAttrs x then (mergeFun args x)
+                        else assert isFunction x;
+                             mergeFun args (x ( args // { inherit fixed; }));
+             in overridableDelayableArgs f newArgs;
     in
     (f (tidy (lib.fix takeFixed))) // {
       merge   = fun "mergeFun";
       replace = fun "keepFun";
     };
-  defaultOverridableDelayableArgs = f:
+  defaultOverridableDelayableArgs = f : 
       let defaults = {
             mergeFun = mergeAttrByFunc; # default merge function. merge strategie (concatenate lists, strings) is given by mergeAttrBy
-            keepFun = a: b: { inherit (a) removeAttrs mergeFun keepFun mergeAttrBy; } // b; # even when using replace preserve these values
+            keepFun = a : b : { inherit (a) removeAttrs mergeFun keepFun mergeAttrBy; } // b; # even when using replace preserve these values
             applyPreTidy = []; # list of functions applied to args before args are tidied up (usage case : prepareDerivationArgs)
             mergeAttrBy = mergeAttrBy // {
-              applyPreTidy = a: b: a ++ b;
-              removeAttrs = a: b: a ++ b;
+              applyPreTidy = a : b : a ++ b;
+              removeAttrs = a : b: a ++ b;
             };
             removeAttrs = ["mergeFun" "keepFun" "mergeAttrBy" "removeAttrs" "fixed" ]; # before applying the arguments to the function make sure these names are gone
           };
@@ -87,7 +86,7 @@ rec {
 
 
   # rec { # an example of how composedArgsAndFun can be used
-  #  a  = composedArgsAndFun (x: x) { a = ["2"]; meta = { d = "bar";}; };
+  #  a  = composedArgsAndFun (x : x) { a = ["2"]; meta = { d = "bar";}; };
   #  # meta.d will be lost ! It's your task to preserve it (eg using a merge function)
   #  b  = a.passthru.function { a = [ "3" ]; meta = { d2 = "bar2";}; };
   #  # instead of passing/ overriding values you can use a merge function:
@@ -120,7 +119,7 @@ rec {
     else if val == true || val == false then false
     else null;
 
-
+    
   # Return true only if there is an attribute and it is true.
   checkFlag = attrSet: name:
         if name == "true" then true else
@@ -135,29 +134,29 @@ rec {
   ( attrByPath [name] (if checkFlag attrSet name then true else
         if argList == [] then null else
         let x = builtins.head argList; in
-                if (head x) == name then
+                if (head x) == name then 
                         (head (tail x))
-                else (getValue attrSet
+                else (getValue attrSet 
                         (tail argList) name)) attrSet );
 
-
+                        
   # Input : attrSet, [[name default] ...], [ [flagname reqs..] ... ]
   # Output : are reqs satisfied? It's asserted.
-  checkReqs = attrSet: argList: condList:
+  checkReqs = attrSet : argList : condList :
   (
-    fold lib.and true
-      (map (x: let name = (head x); in
-
-        ((checkFlag attrSet name) ->
+    fold lib.and true 
+      (map (x: let name = (head x) ; in
+        
+        ((checkFlag attrSet name) -> 
         (fold lib.and true
         (map (y: let val=(getValue attrSet argList y); in
-                (val!=null) && (val!=false))
-        (tail x))))) condList));
-
+                (val!=null) && (val!=false)) 
+        (tail x))))) condList)) ;
+        
 
   # This function has O(n^2) performance.
-  uniqList = { inputList, acc ? [] }:
-    let go = xs: acc:
+  uniqList = {inputList, acc ? []} :
+    let go = xs : acc :
              if xs == []
              then []
              else let x = head xs;
@@ -165,26 +164,26 @@ rec {
                   in y ++ go (tail xs) (y ++ acc);
     in go inputList acc;
 
-  uniqListExt = { inputList,
-                  outputList ? [],
-                  getter ? (x: x),
-                  compare ? (x: y: x==y) }:
+  uniqListExt = {inputList, outputList ? [],
+    getter ? (x : x), compare ? (x: y: x==y)}:
         if inputList == [] then outputList else
-        let x = head inputList;
-            isX = y: (compare (getter y) (getter x));
-            newOutputList = outputList ++
-                (if any isX outputList then [] else [x]);
-        in uniqListExt { outputList = newOutputList;
-                         inputList = (tail inputList);
-                         inherit getter compare;
-                       };
+        let x=head inputList; 
+        isX = y: (compare (getter y) (getter x));
+        newOutputList = outputList ++
+         (if any isX outputList then [] else [x]);
+        in uniqListExt {outputList=newOutputList; 
+                inputList = (tail inputList);
+                inherit getter compare;
+                };
 
+
+                
   condConcat = name: list: checker:
         if list == [] then name else
-        if checker (head list) then
-                condConcat
-                        (name + (head (tail list)))
-                        (tail (tail list))
+        if checker (head list) then 
+                condConcat 
+                        (name + (head (tail list))) 
+                        (tail (tail list)) 
                         checker
         else condConcat
                 name (tail (tail list)) checker;
@@ -203,12 +202,12 @@ rec {
     in
       work startSet [] [];
 
-  innerModifySumArgs = f: x: a: b: if b == null then (f a b) // x else
+  innerModifySumArgs = f: x: a: b: if b == null then (f a b) // x else 
         innerModifySumArgs f x (a // b);
   modifySumArgs = f: x: innerModifySumArgs f x {};
 
 
-  innerClosePropagation = acc: xs:
+  innerClosePropagation = acc : xs :
     if xs == []
     then acc
     else let y  = head xs;
@@ -228,45 +227,45 @@ rec {
   closePropagation = list: (uniqList {inputList = (innerClosePropagation [] list);});
 
   # calls a function (f attr value ) for each record item. returns a list
-  mapAttrsFlatten = f: r: map (attr: f attr r.${attr}) (attrNames r);
+  mapAttrsFlatten = f : r : map (attr: f attr r.${attr}) (attrNames r);
 
   # attribute set containing one attribute
-  nvs = name: value: listToAttrs [ (nameValuePair name value) ];
+  nvs = name : value : listToAttrs [ (nameValuePair name value) ];
   # adds / replaces an attribute of an attribute set
-  setAttr = set: name: v: set // (nvs name v);
+  setAttr = set : name : v : set // (nvs name v);
 
   # setAttrMerge (similar to mergeAttrsWithFunc but only merges the values of a particular name)
-  # setAttrMerge "a" [] { a = [2];} (x: x ++ [3]) -> { a = [2 3]; }
-  # setAttrMerge "a" [] {         } (x: x ++ [3]) -> { a = [  3]; }
-  setAttrMerge = name: default: attrs: f:
+  # setAttrMerge "a" [] { a = [2];} (x : x ++ [3]) -> { a = [2 3]; } 
+  # setAttrMerge "a" [] {         } (x : x ++ [3]) -> { a = [  3]; }
+  setAttrMerge = name : default : attrs : f :
     setAttr attrs name (f (maybeAttr name default attrs));
 
-  # Using f = a: b = b the result is similar to //
+  # Using f = a : b = b the result is similar to //
   # merge attributes with custom function handling the case that the attribute
   # exists in both sets
-  mergeAttrsWithFunc = f: set1: set2:
-    fold (n: set: if set ? ${n}
+  mergeAttrsWithFunc = f : set1 : set2 :
+    fold (n: set : if set ? ${n}
                         then setAttr set n (f set.${n} set2.${n})
                         else set )
            (set2 // set1) (attrNames set2);
 
   # merging two attribute set concatenating the values of same attribute names
   # eg { a = 7; } {  a = [ 2 3 ]; } becomes { a = [ 7 2 3 ]; }
-  mergeAttrsConcatenateValues = mergeAttrsWithFunc ( a: b: (toList a) ++ (toList b) );
+  mergeAttrsConcatenateValues = mergeAttrsWithFunc ( a : b : (toList a) ++ (toList b) );
 
-  # merges attributes using //, if a name exists in both attributes
+  # merges attributes using //, if a name exisits in both attributes
   # an error will be triggered unless its listed in mergeLists
   # so you can mergeAttrsNoOverride { buildInputs = [a]; } { buildInputs = [a]; } {} to get
   # { buildInputs = [a b]; }
-  # merging buildPhase doesn't really make sense. The cases will be rare where appending /prefixing will fit your needs?
+  # merging buildPhase does'nt really make sense. The cases will be rare where appending /prefixing will fit your needs?
   # in these cases the first buildPhase will override the second one
   # ! deprecated, use mergeAttrByFunc instead
   mergeAttrsNoOverride = { mergeLists ? ["buildInputs" "propagatedBuildInputs"],
                            overrideSnd ? [ "buildPhase" ]
-                         }: attrs1: attrs2:
-    fold (n: set:
+                         } : attrs1 : attrs2 :
+    fold (n: set : 
         setAttr set n ( if set ? ${n}
-            then # merge
+            then # merge 
               if elem n mergeLists # attribute contains list, merge them by concatenating
                 then attrs2.${n} ++ attrs1.${n}
               else if elem n overrideSnd
@@ -287,14 +286,14 @@ rec {
   # { mergeAttrsBy = [...]; buildInputs = [ a b c d ]; }
   # is used by prepareDerivationArgs, defaultOverridableDelayableArgs and can be used when composing using
   # foldArgs, composedArgsAndFun or applyAndFun. Example: composableDerivation in all-packages.nix
-  mergeAttrByFunc = x: y:
+  mergeAttrByFunc = x : y :
     let
-          mergeAttrBy2 = { mergeAttrBy = lib.mergeAttrs; }
+          mergeAttrBy2 = { mergeAttrBy=lib.mergeAttrs; }
                       // (maybeAttr "mergeAttrBy" {} x)
                       // (maybeAttr "mergeAttrBy" {} y); in
     fold lib.mergeAttrs {} [
       x y
-      (mapAttrs ( a: v: # merge special names using given functions
+      (mapAttrs ( a : v : # merge special names using given functions
           if x ? ${a}
              then if y ? ${a}
                then v x.${a} y.${a} # both have attr, use merge func
@@ -310,19 +309,58 @@ rec {
   mergeAttrsByFuncDefaults = foldl mergeAttrByFunc { inherit mergeAttrBy; };
   mergeAttrsByFuncDefaultsClean = list: removeAttrs (mergeAttrsByFuncDefaults list) ["mergeAttrBy"];
 
+  # merge attrs based on version key into mkDerivation args, see mergeAttrBy to learn about smart merge defaults
+  #
+  # This function is best explained by an example:
+  #
+  #     {version ? "2.x"} :
+  #
+  #     mkDerivation (mergeAttrsByVersion "package-name" version 
+  #       { # version specific settings
+  #         "git" = { src = ..; preConfigre = "autogen.sh"; buildInputs = [automake autoconf libtool];  };
+  #         "2.x" = { src = ..; };
+  #       }
+  #       {  // shared settings
+  #          buildInputs = [ common build inputs ];
+  #          meta = { .. }
+  #       }
+  #     )
+  #
+  # Please note that e.g. Eelco Dolstra usually prefers having one file for
+  # each version. On the other hand there are valuable additional design goals
+  #  - readability
+  #  - do it once only
+  #  - try to avoid duplication
+  #
+  # Marc Weber and Michael Raskin sometimes prefer keeping older
+  # versions around for testing and regression tests - as long as its cheap to
+  # do so.
+  #
+  # Very often it just happens that the "shared" code is the bigger part.
+  # Then using this function might be appropriate.
+  #
+  # Be aware that its easy to cause recompilations in all versions when using
+  # this function - also if derivations get too complex splitting into multiple
+  # files is the way to go.
+  #
+  # See misc.nix -> versionedDerivation
+  # discussion: nixpkgs: pull/310
+  mergeAttrsByVersion = name: version: attrsByVersion: base:
+    mergeAttrsByFuncDefaultsClean [ { name = "${name}-${version}"; } base (maybeAttr version (throw "bad version ${version} for ${name}") attrsByVersion)];
+
   # sane defaults (same name as attr name so that inherit can be used)
   mergeAttrBy = # { buildInputs = concatList; [...]; passthru = mergeAttr; [..]; }
-    listToAttrs (map (n: nameValuePair n lib.concat)
+    listToAttrs (map (n : nameValuePair n lib.concat)
       [ "nativeBuildInputs" "buildInputs" "propagatedBuildInputs" "configureFlags" "prePhases" "postAll" "patches" ])
-    // listToAttrs (map (n: nameValuePair n lib.mergeAttrs) [ "passthru" "meta" "cfg" "flags" ])
-    // listToAttrs (map (n: nameValuePair n (a: b: "${a}\n${b}") ) [ "preConfigure" "postInstall" ])
+    // listToAttrs (map (n : nameValuePair n lib.mergeAttrs) [ "passthru" "meta" "cfg" "flags" ])
+    // listToAttrs (map (n : nameValuePair n (a: b: "${a}\n${b}") ) [ "preConfigure" "postInstall" ])
   ;
 
   # prepareDerivationArgs tries to make writing configurable derivations easier
   # example:
   #  prepareDerivationArgs {
   #    mergeAttrBy = {
-  #       myScript = x: y: x ++ "\n" ++ y;
+  #       myScript = x : y : x ++ "\n" ++ y;
   #    };
   #    cfg = {
   #      readlineSupport = true;
@@ -354,10 +392,10 @@ rec {
   # TODO use args.mergeFun here as well?
   prepareDerivationArgs = args:
     let args2 = { cfg = {}; flags = {}; } // args;
-        flagName = name: "${name}Support";
-        cfgWithDefaults = (listToAttrs (map (n: nameValuePair (flagName n) false) (attrNames args2.flags)))
+        flagName = name : "${name}Support";
+        cfgWithDefaults = (listToAttrs (map (n : nameValuePair (flagName n) false) (attrNames args2.flags)))
                           // args2.cfg;
-        opts = attrValues (mapAttrs (a: v:
+        opts = attrValues (mapAttrs (a : v :
                 let v2 = if v ? set || v ? unset then v else { set = v; };
                     n = if cfgWithDefaults.${flagName a} then "set" else "unset";
                     attr = maybeAttr n {} v2; in
@@ -374,7 +412,7 @@ rec {
       if isAttrs x then
           if x ? outPath then "derivation"
           else "attrs"
-      else if lib.isFunction x then "function"
+      else if isFunction x then "function"
       else if isList x then "list"
       else if x == true then "bool"
       else if x == false then "bool"
@@ -382,12 +420,4 @@ rec {
       else if isInt x then "int"
       else "string";
 
-  /* deprecated:
-
-     For historical reasons, imap has an index starting at 1.
-
-     But for consistency with the rest of the library we want an index
-     starting at zero.
-  */
-  imap = imap1;
 }

lib/fetchers.nix

@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-# snippets that can be shared by multiple fetchers (pkgs/build-support)
-{ lib }:
-{
-
-  proxyImpureEnvVars = [
-    # We borrow these environment variables from the caller to allow
-    # easy proxy configuration.  This is impure, but a fixed-output
-    # derivation like fetchurl is allowed to do so since its result is
-    # by definition pure.
-    "http_proxy" "https_proxy" "ftp_proxy" "all_proxy" "no_proxy"
-  ];
-
-}

lib/filesystem.nix

@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-{ lib }:
-{ # haskellPathsInDir : Path -> Map String Path
-  # A map of all haskell packages defined in the given path,
-  # identified by having a cabal file with the same name as the
-  # directory itself.
-  haskellPathsInDir = root:
-    let # Files in the root
-        root-files = builtins.attrNames (builtins.readDir root);
-        # Files with their full paths
-        root-files-with-paths =
-          map (file:
-            { name = file; value = root + "/${file}"; }
-          ) root-files;
-        # Subdirectories of the root with a cabal file.
-        cabal-subdirs =
-          builtins.filter ({ name, value }:
-            builtins.pathExists (value + "/${name}.cabal")
-          ) root-files-with-paths;
-    in builtins.listToAttrs cabal-subdirs;
-  # locateDominatingFile :  RegExp
-  #                      -> Path
-  #                      -> Nullable { path : Path;
-  #                                    matches : [ MatchResults ];
-  #                                  }
-  # Find the first directory containing a file matching 'pattern'
-  # upward from a given 'file'.
-  # Returns 'null' if no directories contain a file matching 'pattern'.
-  locateDominatingFile = pattern: file:
-    let go = path:
-          let files = builtins.attrNames (builtins.readDir path);
-              matches = builtins.filter (match: match != null)
-                          (map (builtins.match pattern) files);
-          in
-            if builtins.length matches != 0
-              then { inherit path matches; }
-              else if path == /.
-                then null
-                else go (dirOf path);
-        parent = dirOf file;
-        isDir =
-          let base = baseNameOf file;
-              type = (builtins.readDir parent).${base} or null;
-          in file == /. || type == "directory";
-    in go (if isDir then file else parent);
-}

lib/fixed-points.nix

@@ -1,79 +0,0 @@
-{ ... }:
-rec {
-  # Compute the fixed point of the given function `f`, which is usually an
-  # attribute set that expects its final, non-recursive representation as an
-  # argument:
-  #
-  #     f = self: { foo = "foo"; bar = "bar"; foobar = self.foo + self.bar; }
-  #
-  # Nix evaluates this recursion until all references to `self` have been
-  # resolved. At that point, the final result is returned and `f x = x` holds:
-  #
-  #     nix-repl> fix f
-  #     { bar = "bar"; foo = "foo"; foobar = "foobar"; }
-  #
-  #  Type: fix :: (a -> a) -> a
-  #
-  # See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator for further
-  # details.
-  fix = f: let x = f x; in x;
-
-  # A variant of `fix` that records the original recursive attribute set in the
-  # result. This is useful in combination with the `extends` function to
-  # implement deep overriding. See pkgs/development/haskell-modules/default.nix
-  # for a concrete example.
-  fix' = f: let x = f x // { __unfix__ = f; }; in x;
-
-  # Modify the contents of an explicitly recursive attribute set in a way that
-  # honors `self`-references. This is accomplished with a function
-  #
-  #     g = self: super: { foo = super.foo + " + "; }
-  #
-  # that has access to the unmodified input (`super`) as well as the final
-  # non-recursive representation of the attribute set (`self`). `extends`
-  # differs from the native `//` operator insofar as that it's applied *before*
-  # references to `self` are resolved:
-  #
-  #     nix-repl> fix (extends g f)
-  #     { bar = "bar"; foo = "foo + "; foobar = "foo + bar"; }
-  #
-  # The name of the function is inspired by object-oriented inheritance, i.e.
-  # think of it as an infix operator `g extends f` that mimics the syntax from
-  # Java. It may seem counter-intuitive to have the "base class" as the second
-  # argument, but it's nice this way if several uses of `extends` are cascaded.
-  extends = f: rattrs: self: let super = rattrs self; in super // f self super;
-
-  # Compose two extending functions of the type expected by 'extends'
-  # into one where changes made in the first are available in the
-  # 'super' of the second
-  composeExtensions =
-    f: g: self: super:
-      let fApplied = f self super;
-          super' = super // fApplied;
-      in fApplied // g self super';
-
-  # Create an overridable, recursive attribute set. For example:
-  #
-  #     nix-repl> obj = makeExtensible (self: { })
-  #
-  #     nix-repl> obj
-  #     { __unfix__ = «lambda»; extend = «lambda»; }
-  #
-  #     nix-repl> obj = obj.extend (self: super: { foo = "foo"; })
-  #
-  #     nix-repl> obj
-  #     { __unfix__ = «lambda»; extend = «lambda»; foo = "foo"; }
-  #
-  #     nix-repl> obj = obj.extend (self: super: { foo = super.foo + " + "; bar = "bar"; foobar = self.foo + self.bar; })
-  #
-  #     nix-repl> obj
-  #     { __unfix__ = «lambda»; bar = "bar"; extend = «lambda»; foo = "foo + "; foobar = "foo + bar"; }
-  makeExtensible = makeExtensibleWithCustomName "extend";
-
-  # Same as `makeExtensible` but the name of the extending attribute is
-  # customized.
-  makeExtensibleWithCustomName = extenderName: rattrs:
-    fix' rattrs // {
-      ${extenderName} = f: makeExtensibleWithCustomName extenderName (extends f rattrs);
-   };
-}

lib/generators.nix

@@ -1,137 +0,0 @@
-/* Functions that generate widespread file
- * formats from nix data structures.
- *
- * They all follow a similar interface:
- * generator { config-attrs } data
- *
- * Tests can be found in ./tests.nix
- * Documentation in the manual, #sec-generators
- */
-{ lib }:
-with (lib).trivial;
-let
-  libStr = lib.strings;
-  libAttr = lib.attrsets;
-
-  flipMapAttrs = flip libAttr.mapAttrs;
-
-  inherit (lib) isFunction;
-in
-
-rec {
-
-  /* Generate a line of key k and value v, separated by
-   * character sep. If sep appears in k, it is escaped.
-   * Helper for synaxes with different separators.
-   *
-   * mkValueString specifies how values should be formatted.
-   *
-   * mkKeyValueDefault {} ":" "f:oo" "bar"
-   * > "f\:oo:bar"
-   */
-  mkKeyValueDefault = {
-    mkValueString ? toString
-  }: sep: k: v:
-    "${libStr.escape [sep] k}${sep}${mkValueString v}";
-
-
-  /* Generate a key-value-style config file from an attrset.
-   *
-   * mkKeyValue is the same as in toINI.
-   */
-  toKeyValue = {
-    mkKeyValue ? mkKeyValueDefault {} "="
-  }: attrs:
-    let mkLine = k: v: mkKeyValue k v + "\n";
-    in libStr.concatStrings (libAttr.mapAttrsToList mkLine attrs);
-
-
-  /* Generate an INI-style config file from an
-   * attrset of sections to an attrset of key-value pairs.
-   *
-   * generators.toINI {} {
-   *   foo = { hi = "${pkgs.hello}"; ciao = "bar"; };
-   *   baz = { "also, integers" = 42; };
-   * }
-   *
-   *> [baz]
-   *> also, integers=42
-   *>
-   *> [foo]
-   *> ciao=bar
-   *> hi=/nix/store/y93qql1p5ggfnaqjjqhxcw0vqw95rlz0-hello-2.10
-   *
-   * The mk* configuration attributes can generically change
-   * the way sections and key-value strings are generated.
-   *
-   * For more examples see the test cases in ./tests.nix.
-   */
-  toINI = {
-    # apply transformations (e.g. escapes) to section names
-    mkSectionName ? (name: libStr.escape [ "[" "]" ] name),
-    # format a setting line from key and value
-    mkKeyValue    ? mkKeyValueDefault {} "="
-  }: attrsOfAttrs:
-    let
-        # map function to string for each key val
-        mapAttrsToStringsSep = sep: mapFn: attrs:
-          libStr.concatStringsSep sep
-            (libAttr.mapAttrsToList mapFn attrs);
-        mkSection = sectName: sectValues: ''
-          [${mkSectionName sectName}]
-        '' + toKeyValue { inherit mkKeyValue; } sectValues;
-    in
-      # map input to ini sections
-      mapAttrsToStringsSep "\n" mkSection attrsOfAttrs;
-
-
-  /* Generates JSON from an arbitrary (non-function) value.
-    * For more information see the documentation of the builtin.
-    */
-  toJSON = {}: builtins.toJSON;
-
-
-  /* YAML has been a strict superset of JSON since 1.2, so we
-    * use toJSON. Before it only had a few differences referring
-    * to implicit typing rules, so it should work with older
-    * parsers as well.
-    */
-  toYAML = {}@args: toJSON args;
-
-  /* Pretty print a value, akin to `builtins.trace`.
-    * Should probably be a builtin as well.
-    */
-  toPretty = {
-    /* If this option is true, attrsets like { __pretty = fn; val = …; }
-       will use fn to convert val to a pretty printed representation.
-       (This means fn is type Val -> String.) */
-    allowPrettyValues ? false
-  }@args: v: with builtins;
-    if      isInt      v then toString v
-    else if isBool     v then (if v == true then "true" else "false")
-    else if isString   v then "\"" + v + "\""
-    else if null ==    v then "null"
-    else if isFunction v then
-      let fna = lib.functionArgs v;
-          showFnas = concatStringsSep "," (libAttr.mapAttrsToList
-                       (name: hasDefVal: if hasDefVal then "(${name})" else name)
-                       fna);
-      in if fna == {}    then "<λ>"
-                         else "<λ:{${showFnas}}>"
-    else if isList     v then "[ "
-        + libStr.concatMapStringsSep " " (toPretty args) v
-      + " ]"
-    else if isAttrs    v then
-      # apply pretty values if allowed
-      if attrNames v == [ "__pretty" "val" ] && allowPrettyValues
-         then v.__pretty v.val
-      # TODO: there is probably a better representation?
-      else if v ? type && v.type == "derivation" then "<δ>"
-      else "{ "
-          + libStr.concatStringsSep " " (libAttr.mapAttrsToList
-              (name: value:
-                "${toPretty args name} = ${toPretty args value};") v)
-        + " }"
-    else abort "toPretty: should never happen (v = ${v})";
-
-}

lib/licenses.nix

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-{ lib }:
 let
 
+  lib = import ./default.nix;
+
   spdx = lic: lic // {
-    url = "http://spdx.org/licenses/${lic.spdxId}.html";
+    url = "http://spdx.org/licenses/${lic.spdxId}";
   };
 
 in
@@ -15,12 +16,7 @@ lib.mapAttrs (n: v: v // { shortName = n; }) rec {
 
   afl21 = spdx {
     spdxId = "AFL-2.1";
-    fullName = "Academic Free License v2.1";
-  };
-
-  afl3 = spdx {
-    spdxId = "AFL-3.0";
-    fullName = "Academic Free License v3.0";
+    fullName = "Academic Free License";
   };
 
   agpl3 = spdx {
@@ -49,11 +45,6 @@ lib.mapAttrs (n: v: v // { shortName = n; }) rec {
     fullName = "Apple Public Source License 2.0";
   };
 
-  arphicpl = {
-    fullName = "Arphic Public License";
-    url = https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Arphic_Public_License/;
-  };
-
   artistic1 = spdx {
     spdxId = "Artistic-1.0";
     fullName = "Artistic License 1.0";
@@ -74,16 +65,6 @@ lib.mapAttrs (n: v: v // { shortName = n; }) rec {
     fullName = "Boost Software License 1.0";
   };
 
-  beerware = spdx {
-    spdxId = "Beerware";
-    fullName = ''Beerware License'';
-  };
-
-  bsd0 = spdx {
-    spdxId = "0BSD";
-    fullName = "BSD Zero Clause License";
-  };
-
   bsd2 = spdx {
     spdxId = "BSD-2-Clause";
     fullName = ''BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License'';
@@ -99,11 +80,6 @@ lib.mapAttrs (n: v: v // { shortName = n; }) rec {
     fullName = ''BSD 4-clause "Original" or "Old" License'';
   };
 
-  clArtistic = spdx {
-    spdxId = "ClArtistic";
-    fullName = "Clarified Artistic License";
-  };
-
   cc0 = spdx {
     spdxId = "CC0-1.0";
     fullName = "Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal";
@@ -129,11 +105,6 @@ lib.mapAttrs (n: v: v // { shortName = n; }) rec {
     fullName = "Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0";
   };
 
-  cc-by-nd-30 = spdx {
-    spdxId = "CC-BY-ND-3.0";
-    fullName = "Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works v3.00";
-  };
-
   cc-by-sa-25 = spdx {
     spdxId = "CC-BY-SA-2.5";
     fullName = "Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 2.5";
@@ -189,12 +160,6 @@ lib.mapAttrs (n: v: v // { shortName = n; }) rec {
     fullName = "DOC License";
   };
 
-  eapl = {
-    fullName = "EPSON AVASYS PUBLIC LICENSE";
-    url = http://avasys.jp/hp/menu000000700/hpg000000603.htm;
-    free = false;
-  };
-
   efl10 = spdx {
     spdxId = "EFL-1.0";
     fullName = "Eiffel Forum License v1.0";
@@ -210,22 +175,12 @@ lib.mapAttrs (n: v: v // { shortName = n; }) rec {
     fullName = "Eclipse Public License 1.0";
   };
 
-  epl20 = spdx {
-    spdxId = "EPL-2.0";
-    fullName = "Eclipse Public License 2.0";
-  };
-
   epson = {
     fullName = "Seiko Epson Corporation Software License Agreement for Linux";
     url = https://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/du/02/eula/global/LINUX_EN.html;
     free = false;
   };
 
-  eupl11 = spdx {
-    spdxId = "EUPL-1.1";
-    fullName = "European Union Public License 1.1";
-  };
-
   fdl12 = spdx {
     spdxId = "GFDL-1.2";
     fullName = "GNU Free Documentation License v1.2";
@@ -236,12 +191,6 @@ lib.mapAttrs (n: v: v // { shortName = n; }) rec {
     fullName = "GNU Free Documentation License v1.3";
   };
 
-  ffsl = {
-    fullName = "Floodgap Free Software License";
-    url = http://www.floodgap.com/software/ffsl/license.html;
-    free = false;
-  };
-
   free = {
     fullName = "Unspecified free software license";
   };
@@ -302,11 +251,6 @@ lib.mapAttrs (n: v: v // { shortName = n; }) rec {
     url = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/GPL_Classpath_Exception;
   };
 
-  hpnd = spdx {
-    spdxId = "HPND";
-    fullName = "Historic Permission Notice and Disclaimer";
-  };
-
   # Intel's license, seems free
   iasl = {
     fullName = "iASL";
@@ -318,16 +262,9 @@ lib.mapAttrs (n: v: v // { shortName = n; }) rec {
     fullName = "Independent JPEG Group License";
   };
 
-  inria-compcert = {
-    fullName  = "INRIA Non-Commercial License Agreement for the CompCert verified compiler";
+  inria = {
+    fullName  = "INRIA Non-Commercial License Agreement";
     url       = "http://compcert.inria.fr/doc/LICENSE";
-    free      = false;
-  };
-
-  inria-icesl = {
-    fullName = "INRIA Non-Commercial License Agreement for IceSL";
-    url      = "http://shapeforge.loria.fr/icesl/EULA_IceSL_binary.pdf";
-    free     = false;
   };
 
   ipa = spdx {
@@ -405,11 +342,6 @@ lib.mapAttrs (n: v: v // { shortName = n; }) rec {
     fullName = "Lucent Public License v1.02";
   };
 
-  miros = {
-    fullName = "MirOS License";
-    url = https://opensource.org/licenses/MirOS;
-  };
-
   # spdx.org does not (yet) differentiate between the X11 and Expat versions
   # for details see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License#Various_versions
   mit = spdx {
@@ -432,11 +364,6 @@ lib.mapAttrs (n: v: v // { shortName = n; }) rec {
     fullName = "Mozilla Public License 2.0";
   };
 
-  mspl = spdx {
-    spdxId = "MS-PL";
-    fullName = "Microsoft Public License";
-  };
-
   msrla = {
     fullName  = "Microsoft Research License Agreement";
     url       = "http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/pex/msr-la.txt";
@@ -451,12 +378,7 @@ lib.mapAttrs (n: v: v // { shortName = n; }) rec {
     url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raboof/notion/master/LICENSE";
     fullName = "Notion modified LGPL";
   };
-
-  nposl3 = spdx {
-    spdxId = "NPOSL-3.0";
-    fullName = "Non-Profit Open Software License 3.0";
-  };
-
+  
   ofl = spdx {
     spdxId = "OFL-1.1";
     fullName = "SIL Open Font License 1.1";
@@ -472,16 +394,6 @@ lib.mapAttrs (n: v: v // { shortName = n; }) rec {
     fullName = "OpenSSL License";
   };
 
-  osl21 = spdx {
-    spdxId = "OSL-2.1";
-    fullName = "Open Software License 2.1";
-  };
-
-  osl3 = spdx {
-    spdxId = "OSL-3.0";
-    fullName = "Open Software License 3.0";
-  };
-
   php301 = spdx {
     spdxId = "PHP-3.01";
     fullName = "PHP License v3.01";
@@ -492,12 +404,6 @@ lib.mapAttrs (n: v: v // { shortName = n; }) rec {
     fullName = "PostgreSQL License";
   };
 
-  postman = {
-    fullName = "Postman EULA";
-    url = https://www.getpostman.com/licenses/postman_base_app;
-    free = false;
-  };
-
   psfl = spdx {
     spdxId = "Python-2.0";
     fullName = "Python Software Foundation License version 2";
@@ -533,12 +439,6 @@ lib.mapAttrs (n: v: v // { shortName = n; }) rec {
     fullName = "Sleepycat License";
   };
 
-  smail = {
-    shortName = "smail";
-    fullName = "SMAIL General Public License";
-    url = http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/d/debianutils/debianutils_4.8.1_copyright;
-  };
-
   tcltk = spdx {
     spdxId = "TCL";
     fullName = "TCL/TK License";
@@ -570,11 +470,6 @@ lib.mapAttrs (n: v: v // { shortName = n; }) rec {
     fullName = "The Unlicense";
   };
 
-  upl = {
-    fullName = "Universal Permissive License";
-    url = "https://oss.oracle.com/licenses/upl/";
-  };
-
   vim = spdx {
     spdxId = "Vim";
     fullName = "Vim License";
@@ -585,11 +480,6 @@ lib.mapAttrs (n: v: v // { shortName = n; }) rec {
     fullName = "Vovida Software License v1.0";
   };
 
-  watcom = spdx {
-    spdxId = "Watcom-1.0";
-    fullName = "Sybase Open Watcom Public License 1.0";
-  };
-
   w3c = spdx {
     spdxId = "W3C";
     fullName = "W3C Software Notice and License";
@@ -605,23 +495,19 @@ lib.mapAttrs (n: v: v // { shortName = n; }) rec {
     fullName = "Do What The F*ck You Want To Public License";
   };
 
-  wxWindows = spdx {
-    spdxId = "WXwindows";
-    fullName = "wxWindows Library Licence, Version 3.1";
-  };
-
   zlib = spdx {
     spdxId = "Zlib";
     fullName = "zlib License";
   };
 
-  zpl20 = spdx {
+  zpt20 = spdx { # FIXME: why zpt* instead of zpl*
     spdxId = "ZPL-2.0";
     fullName = "Zope Public License 2.0";
   };
 
-  zpl21 = spdx {
+  zpt21 = spdx {
     spdxId = "ZPL-2.1";
     fullName = "Zope Public License 2.1";
   };
+
 }

lib/lists.nix

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # General list operations.
-{ lib }:
-with lib.trivial;
+
+with import ./trivial.nix;
 
 rec {
 
@@ -16,22 +16,17 @@ rec {
   */
   singleton = x: [x];
 
-  /* “right fold” a binary function `op' between successive elements of
-     `list' with `nul' as the starting value, i.e.,
-     `foldr op nul [x_1 x_2 ... x_n] == op x_1 (op x_2 ... (op x_n nul))'.
-     Type:
-       foldr :: (a -> b -> b) -> b -> [a] -> b
+  /* "Fold" a binary function `op' between successive elements of
+     `list' with `nul' as the starting value, i.e., `fold op nul [x_1
+     x_2 ... x_n] == op x_1 (op x_2 ... (op x_n nul))'.  (This is
+     Haskell's foldr).
 
      Example:
-       concat = foldr (a: b: a + b) "z"
+       concat = fold (a: b: a + b) "z"
        concat [ "a" "b" "c" ]
        => "abcz"
-       # different types
-       strange = foldr (int: str: toString (int + 1) + str) "a"
-       strange [ 1 2 3 4 ]
-       => "2345a"
   */
-  foldr = op: nul: list:
+  fold = op: nul: list:
     let
       len = length list;
       fold' = n:
@@ -40,25 +35,13 @@ rec {
         else op (elemAt list n) (fold' (n + 1));
     in fold' 0;
 
-  /* `fold' is an alias of `foldr' for historic reasons */
-  # FIXME(Profpatsch): deprecate?
-  fold = foldr;
-
-
-  /* “left fold”, like `foldr', but from the left:
-     `foldl op nul [x_1 x_2 ... x_n] == op (... (op (op nul x_1) x_2) ... x_n)`.
-
-     Type:
-       foldl :: (b -> a -> b) -> b -> [a] -> b
+  /* Left fold: `fold op nul [x_1 x_2 ... x_n] == op (... (op (op nul
+     x_1) x_2) ... x_n)'.
 
      Example:
        lconcat = foldl (a: b: a + b) "z"
        lconcat [ "a" "b" "c" ]
        => "zabc"
-       # different types
-       lstrange = foldl (str: int: str + toString (int + 1)) ""
-       strange [ 1 2 3 4 ]
-       => "a2345"
   */
   foldl = op: nul: list:
     let
@@ -69,7 +52,7 @@ rec {
         else op (foldl' (n - 1)) (elemAt list n);
     in foldl' (length list - 1);
 
-  /* Strict version of `foldl'.
+  /* Strict version of foldl.
 
      The difference is that evaluation is forced upon access. Usually used
      with small whole results (in contract with lazily-generated list or large
@@ -77,21 +60,15 @@ rec {
   */
   foldl' = builtins.foldl' or foldl;
 
-  /* Map with index starting from 0
+  /* Map with index
+
+     FIXME(zimbatm): why does this start to count at 1?
 
      Example:
-       imap0 (i: v: "${v}-${toString i}") ["a" "b"]
-       => [ "a-0" "b-1" ]
-  */
-  imap0 = f: list: genList (n: f n (elemAt list n)) (length list);
-
-  /* Map with index starting from 1
-
-     Example:
-       imap1 (i: v: "${v}-${toString i}") ["a" "b"]
+       imap (i: v: "${v}-${toString i}") ["a" "b"]
        => [ "a-1" "b-2" ]
   */
-  imap1 = f: list: genList (n: f (n + 1) (elemAt list n)) (length list);
+  imap = f: list: genList (n: f (n + 1) (elemAt list n)) (length list);
 
   /* Map and concatenate the result.
 
@@ -163,7 +140,7 @@ rec {
        any isString [ 1 { } ]
        => false
   */
-  any = builtins.any or (pred: foldr (x: y: if pred x then true else y) false);
+  any = builtins.any or (pred: fold (x: y: if pred x then true else y) false);
 
   /* Return true iff function `pred' returns true for all elements of
      `list'.
@@ -174,7 +151,7 @@ rec {
        all (x: x < 3) [ 1 2 3 ]
        => false
   */
-  all = builtins.all or (pred: foldr (x: y: if pred x then y else false) true);
+  all = builtins.all or (pred: fold (x: y: if pred x then y else false) true);
 
   /* Count how many times function `pred' returns true for the elements
      of `list'.
@@ -197,7 +174,7 @@ rec {
   */
   optional = cond: elem: if cond then [elem] else [];
 
-  /* Return a list or an empty list, depending on a boolean value.
+  /* Return a list or an empty list, dependening on a boolean value.
 
      Example:
        optionals true [ 2 3 ]
@@ -242,7 +219,7 @@ rec {
        => { right = [ 5 3 4 ]; wrong = [ 1 2 ]; }
   */
   partition = builtins.partition or (pred:
-    foldr (h: t:
+    fold (h: t:
       if pred h
       then { right = [h] ++ t.right; wrong = t.wrong; }
       else { right = t.right; wrong = [h] ++ t.wrong; }
@@ -385,30 +362,6 @@ rec {
       if len < 2 then list
       else (sort strictLess pivot.left) ++  [ first ] ++  (sort strictLess pivot.right));
 
-  /* Compare two lists element-by-element.
-
-     Example:
-       compareLists compare [] []
-       => 0
-       compareLists compare [] [ "a" ]
-       => -1
-       compareLists compare [ "a" ] []
-       => 1
-       compareLists compare [ "a" "b" ] [ "a" "c" ]
-       => 1
-  */
-  compareLists = cmp: a: b:
-    if a == []
-    then if b == []
-         then 0
-         else -1
-    else if b == []
-         then 1
-         else let rel = cmp (head a) (head b); in
-              if rel == 0
-              then compareLists cmp (tail a) (tail b)
-              else rel;
-
   /* Return the first (at most) N elements of a list.
 
      Example:
@@ -464,12 +417,8 @@ rec {
   init = list: assert list != []; take (length list - 1) list;
 
 
-  /* return the image of the cross product of some lists by a function
-
-    Example:
-      crossLists (x:y: "${toString x}${toString y}") [[1 2] [3 4]]
-      => [ "13" "14" "23" "24" ]
-  */
+  /* FIXME(zimbatm) Not used anywhere
+   */
   crossLists = f: foldl (fs: args: concatMap (f: map f args) fs) [f];
 
 
@@ -505,12 +454,4 @@ rec {
   */
   subtractLists = e: filter (x: !(elem x e));
 
-  /* Test if two lists have no common element.
-     It should be slightly more efficient than (intersectLists a b == [])
-  */
-  mutuallyExclusive = a: b:
-    (builtins.length a) == 0 ||
-    (!(builtins.elem (builtins.head a) b) &&
-     mutuallyExclusive (builtins.tail a) b);
-
 }

lib/maintainers.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,448 @@
+/* List of NixOS maintainers. The format is:
+
+    handle = "Real Name <address@example.org>";
+
+  where <handle> is preferred to be your GitHub username (so it's easy
+  to ping a package @<handle>), and <Real Name> is your real name, not
+  a pseudonym. Please keep the list alphabetically sorted. */
+{
+  a1russell = "Adam Russell <adamlr6+pub@gmail.com>";
+  aaronschif = "Aaron Schif <aaronschif@gmail.com>";
+  abaldeau = "Andreas Baldeau <andreas@baldeau.net>";
+  abbradar = "Nikolay Amiantov <ab@fmap.me>";
+  aboseley = "Adam Boseley <adam.boseley@gmail.com>";
+  abuibrahim = "Ruslan Babayev <ruslan@babayev.com>";
+  adev = "Adrien Devresse <adev@adev.name>";
+  Adjective-Object = "Maxwell Huang-Hobbs <mhuan13@gmail.com>";
+  adnelson = "Allen Nelson <ithinkican@gmail.com>";
+  adolfogc = "Adolfo E. García Castro <adolfo.garcia.cr@gmail.com>";
+  aespinosa = "Allan Espinosa <allan.espinosa@outlook.com>";
+  aflatter = "Alexander Flatter <flatter@fastmail.fm>";
+  aforemny = "Alexander Foremny <alexanderforemny@googlemail.com>";
+  afranchuk = "Alex Franchuk <alex.franchuk@gmail.com>";
+  aherrmann = "Andreas Herrmann <andreash87@gmx.ch>";
+  ak = "Alexander Kjeldaas <ak@formalprivacy.com>";
+  akaWolf = "Artjom Vejsel <akawolf0@gmail.com>";
+  akc = "Anders Claesson <akc@akc.is>";
+  algorith = "Dries Van Daele <dries_van_daele@telenet.be>";
+  all = "Nix Committers <nix-commits@lists.science.uu.nl>";
+  ambrop72 = "Ambroz Bizjak <ambrop7@gmail.com>";
+  amiddelk = "Arie Middelkoop <amiddelk@gmail.com>";
+  amorsillo = "Andrew Morsillo <andrew.morsillo@gmail.com>";
+  AndersonTorres = "Anderson Torres <torres.anderson.85@gmail.com>";
+  anderspapitto = "Anders Papitto <anderspapitto@gmail.com>";
+  andres = "Andres Loeh <ksnixos@andres-loeh.de>";
+  andrewrk = "Andrew Kelley <superjoe30@gmail.com>";
+  aneeshusa = "Aneesh Agrawal <aneeshusa@gmail.com>";
+  antono = "Antono Vasiljev <self@antono.info>";
+  ardumont = "Antoine R. Dumont <eniotna.t@gmail.com>";
+  aristid = "Aristid Breitkreuz <aristidb@gmail.com>";
+  arobyn = "Alexei Robyn <shados@shados.net>";
+  artuuge = "Artur E. Ruuge <artuuge@gmail.com>";
+  ashalkhakov = "Artyom Shalkhakov <artyom.shalkhakov@gmail.com>";
+  asppsa = "Alastair Pharo <asppsa@gmail.com>";
+  astsmtl = "Alexander Tsamutali <astsmtl@yandex.ru>";
+  aszlig = "aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>";
+  auntie = "Jonathan Glines <auntieNeo@gmail.com>";
+  avnik = "Alexander V. Nikolaev <avn@avnik.info>";
+  aycanirican = "Aycan iRiCAN <iricanaycan@gmail.com>";
+  badi = "Badi' Abdul-Wahid <abdulwahidc@gmail.com>";
+  balajisivaraman = "Balaji Sivaraman<sivaraman.balaji@gmail.com>";
+  Baughn = "Svein Ove Aas <sveina@gmail.com>";
+  bbenoist = "Baptist BENOIST <return_0@live.com>";
+  bcarrell = "Brandon Carrell <brandoncarrell@gmail.com>";
+  bcdarwin = "Ben Darwin <bcdarwin@gmail.com>";
+  bdimcheff = "Brandon Dimcheff <brandon@dimcheff.com>";
+  benley = "Benjamin Staffin <benley@gmail.com>";
+  bennofs = "Benno Fünfstück <benno.fuenfstueck@gmail.com>";
+  benwbooth = "Ben Booth <benwbooth@gmail.com>";
+  berdario = "Dario Bertini <berdario@gmail.com>";
+  bergey = "Daniel Bergey <bergey@teallabs.org>";
+  bjg = "Brian Gough <bjg@gnu.org>";
+  bjornfor = "Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman@gmail.com>";
+  bluescreen303 = "Mathijs Kwik <mathijs@bluescreen303.nl>";
+  bobvanderlinden = "Bob van der Linden <bobvanderlinden@gmail.com>";
+  bodil = "Bodil Stokke <nix@bodil.org>";
+  boothead = "Ben Ford <ben@perurbis.com>";
+  bosu = "Boris Sukholitko <boriss@gmail.com>";
+  bradediger = "Brad Ediger <brad@bradediger.com>";
+  bramd = "Bram Duvigneau <bram@bramd.nl>";
+  bstrik = "Berno Strik <dutchman55@gmx.com>";
+  bzizou = "Bruno Bzeznik <Bruno@bzizou.net>";
+  c0dehero = "CodeHero <codehero@nerdpol.ch>";
+  calrama = "Moritz Maxeiner <moritz@ucworks.org>";
+  campadrenalin = "Philip Horger <campadrenalin@gmail.com>";
+  carlsverre = "Carl Sverre <accounts@carlsverre.com>";
+  cdepillabout = "Dennis Gosnell <cdep.illabout@gmail.com>";
+  cfouche = "Chaddaï Fouché <chaddai.fouche@gmail.com>";
+  chaoflow = "Florian Friesdorf <flo@chaoflow.net>";
+  chattered = "Phil Scott <me@philscotted.com>";
+  choochootrain = "Hurshal Patel <hurshal@imap.cc>";
+  chris-martin = "Chris Martin <ch.martin@gmail.com>";
+  chrisjefferson = "Christopher Jefferson <chris@bubblescope.net>";
+  christopherpoole = "Christopher Mark Poole <mail@christopherpoole.net>";
+  cko = "Christine Koppelt <christine.koppelt@gmail.com>";
+  cleverca22 = "Michael Bishop <cleverca22@gmail.com>";
+  cmcdragonkai = "Roger Qiu <roger.qiu@matrix.ai>";
+  coconnor = "Corey O'Connor <coreyoconnor@gmail.com>";
+  codsl = "codsl <codsl@riseup.net>";
+  codyopel = "Cody Opel <codyopel@gmail.com>";
+  colemickens = "Cole Mickens <cole.mickens@gmail.com>";
+  copumpkin = "Dan Peebles <pumpkingod@gmail.com>";
+  coroa = "Jonas Hörsch <jonas@chaoflow.net>";
+  couchemar = "Andrey Pavlov <couchemar@yandex.ru>";
+  cransom = "Casey Ransom <cransom@hubns.net>";
+  CrystalGamma = "Jona Stubbe <nixos@crystalgamma.de>";
+  cstrahan = "Charles Strahan <charles@cstrahan.com>";
+  cwoac = "Oliver Matthews <oliver@codersoffortune.net>";
+  DamienCassou = "Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me>";
+  dasuxullebt = "Christoph-Simon Senjak <christoph.senjak@googlemail.com>";
+  davidak = "David Kleuker <post@davidak.de>";
+  davidrusu = "David Rusu <davidrusu.me@gmail.com>";
+  dbohdan = "Danyil Bohdan <danyil.bohdan@gmail.com>";
+  dbrock = "Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>";
+  deepfire = "Kosyrev Serge <_deepfire@feelingofgreen.ru>";
+  demin-dmitriy = "Dmitriy Demin <demindf@gmail.com>";
+  DerGuteMoritz = "Moritz Heidkamp <moritz@twoticketsplease.de>";
+  desiderius = "Didier J. Devroye <didier@devroye.name>";
+  devhell = "devhell <\"^\"@regexmail.net>";
+  dezgeg = "Tuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas.tynkkynen@iki.fi>";
+  dfoxfranke = "Daniel Fox Franke <dfoxfranke@gmail.com>";
+  dgonyeo = "Derek Gonyeo <derek@gonyeo.com>";
+  dmalikov = "Dmitry Malikov <malikov.d.y@gmail.com>";
+  dochang = "Desmond O. Chang <dochang@gmail.com>";
+  doublec = "Chris Double <chris.double@double.co.nz>";
+  drets = "Dmytro Rets <dmitryrets@gmail.com>";
+  drewkett = "Andrew Burkett <burkett.andrew@gmail.com>";
+  ebzzry = "Rommel Martinez <ebzzry@gmail.com>";
+  ederoyd46 = "Matthew Brown <matt@ederoyd.co.uk>";
+  eduarrrd = "Eduard Bachmakov <e.bachmakov@gmail.com>";
+  edwtjo = "Edward Tjörnhammar <ed@cflags.cc>";
+  eelco = "Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>";
+  ehegnes = "Eric Hegnes <eric.hegnes@gmail.com>";
+  ehmry = "Emery Hemingway <emery@vfemail.net>";
+  eikek = "Eike Kettner <eike.kettner@posteo.de>";
+  elasticdog = "Aaron Bull Schaefer <aaron@elasticdog.com>";
+  elitak = "Eric Litak <elitak@gmail.com>";
+  ellis = "Ellis Whitehead <nixos@ellisw.net>";
+  epitrochoid = "Mabry Cervin <mpcervin@uncg.edu>";
+  ericbmerritt = "Eric Merritt <eric@afiniate.com>";
+  ericsagnes = "Eric Sagnes <eric.sagnes@gmail.com>";
+  erikryb = "Erik Rybakken <erik.rybakken@math.ntnu.no>";
+  ertes = "Ertugrul Söylemez <esz@posteo.de>";
+  exi = "Reno Reckling <nixos@reckling.org>";
+  exlevan = "Alexey Levan <exlevan@gmail.com>";
+  expipiplus1 = "Joe Hermaszewski <nix@monoid.al>";
+  fadenb = "Tristan Helmich <tristan.helmich+nixos@gmail.com>";
+  falsifian = "James Cook <james.cook@utoronto.ca>";
+  flosse = "Markus Kohlhase <mail@markus-kohlhase.de>";
+  fluffynukeit = "Daniel Austin <dan@fluffynukeit.com>";
+  fmthoma = "Franz Thoma <f.m.thoma@googlemail.com>";
+  forkk = "Andrew Okin <forkk@forkk.net>";
+  fornever = "Friedrich von Never <friedrich@fornever.me>";
+  fpletz = "Franz Pletz <fpletz@fnordicwalking.de>";
+  fps = "Florian Paul Schmidt <mista.tapas@gmx.net>";
+  fridh = "Frederik Rietdijk <fridh@fridh.nl>";
+  frlan = "Frank Lanitz <frank@frank.uvena.de>";
+  fro_ozen = "fro_ozen <fro_ozen@gmx.de>";
+  ftrvxmtrx = "Siarhei Zirukin <ftrvxmtrx@gmail.com>";
+  funfunctor = "Edward O'Callaghan <eocallaghan@alterapraxis.com>";
+  fuuzetsu = "Mateusz Kowalczyk <fuuzetsu@fuuzetsu.co.uk>";
+  fxfactorial = "Edgar Aroutiounian <edgar.factorial@gmail.com>";
+  gal_bolle = "Florent Becker <florent.becker@ens-lyon.org>";
+  garbas = "Rok Garbas <rok@garbas.si>";
+  garrison = "Jim Garrison <jim@garrison.cc>";
+  gavin = "Gavin Rogers <gavin@praxeology.co.uk>";
+  gebner = "Gabriel Ebner <gebner@gebner.org>";
+  gilligan = "Tobias Pflug <tobias.pflug@gmail.com>";
+  giogadi = "Luis G. Torres <lgtorres42@gmail.com>";
+  gleber = "Gleb Peregud <gleber.p@gmail.com>";
+  globin = "Robin Gloster <mail@glob.in>";
+  goibhniu = "Cillian de Róiste <cillian.deroiste@gmail.com>";
+  Gonzih = "Max Gonzih <gonzih@gmail.com>";
+  gpyh = "Yacine Hmito <yacine.hmito@gmail.com>";
+  grahamc = "Graham Christensen <graham@grahamc.com>";
+  gridaphobe = "Eric Seidel <eric@seidel.io>";
+  guibert = "David Guibert <david.guibert@gmail.com>";
+  havvy = "Ryan Scheel <ryan.havvy@gmail.com>";
+  hbunke = "Hendrik Bunke <bunke.hendrik@gmail.com>";
+  hce = "Hans-Christian Esperer <hc@hcesperer.org>";
+  henrytill = "Henry Till <henrytill@gmail.com>";
+  hiberno = "Christian Lask <hiberno@hiberno.net>";
+  hinton = "Tom Hinton <t@larkery.com>";
+  hrdinka = "Christoph Hrdinka <c.nix@hrdinka.at>";
+  iand675 = "Ian Duncan <ian@iankduncan.com>";
+  ianwookim = "Ian-Woo Kim <ianwookim@gmail.com>";
+  domenkozar = "Domen Kozar <domen@dev.si>";
+  igsha = "Igor Sharonov <igor.sharonov@gmail.com>";
+  ikervagyok = "Balázs Lengyel <ikervagyok@gmail.com>";
+  j-keck = "Jürgen Keck <jhyphenkeck@gmail.com>";
+  jagajaga = "Arseniy Seroka <ars.seroka@gmail.com>";
+  javaguirre = "Javier Aguirre <contacto@javaguirre.net>";
+  jb55 = "William Casarin <bill@casarin.me>";
+  jcumming = "Jack Cummings <jack@mudshark.org>";
+  jefdaj = "Jeffrey David Johnson <jefdaj@gmail.com>";
+  jfb = "James Felix Black <james@yamtime.com>";
+  jgeerds = "Jascha Geerds <jascha@jgeerds.name>";
+  jgillich = "Jakob Gillich <jakob@gillich.me>";
+  jirkamarsik = "Jirka Marsik <jiri.marsik89@gmail.com>";
+  joachifm = "Joachim Fasting <joachifm@fastmail.fm>";
+  joamaki = "Jussi Maki <joamaki@gmail.com>";
+  joelmo = "Joel Moberg <joel.moberg@gmail.com>";
+  joelteon = "Joel Taylor <me@joelt.io>";
+  joko = "Ioannis Koutras <ioannis.koutras@gmail.com>";
+  jpbernardy = "Jean-Philippe Bernardy <jeanphilippe.bernardy@gmail.com>";
+  jraygauthier = "Raymond Gauthier <jraygauthier@gmail.com>";
+  juliendehos = "Julien Dehos <dehos@lisic.univ-littoral.fr>";
+  jwiegley = "John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>";
+  jwilberding = "Jordan Wilberding <jwilberding@afiniate.com>";
+  jzellner = "Jeff Zellner <jeffz@eml.cc>";
+  kamilchm = "Kamil Chmielewski <kamil.chm@gmail.com>";
+  kampfschlaefer = "Arnold Krille <arnold@arnoldarts.de>";
+  kevincox = "Kevin Cox <kevincox@kevincox.ca>";
+  khumba = "Bryan Gardiner <bog@khumba.net>";
+  kkallio = "Karn Kallio <tierpluspluslists@gmail.com>";
+  koral = "Koral <koral@mailoo.org>";
+  kovirobi = "Kovacsics Robert <kovirobi@gmail.com>";
+  kragniz = "Louis Taylor <louis@kragniz.eu>";
+  ktosiek = "Tomasz Kontusz <tomasz.kontusz@gmail.com>";
+  lassulus = "Lassulus <lassulus@gmail.com>";
+  layus = "Guillaume Maudoux <layus.on@gmail.com>";
+  ldesgoui = "Lucas Desgouilles <ldesgoui@gmail.com>";
+  lebastr = "Alexander Lebedev <lebastr@gmail.com>";
+  leenaars = "Michiel Leenaars <ml.software@leenaa.rs>";
+  leonardoce = "Leonardo Cecchi <leonardo.cecchi@gmail.com>";
+  lethalman = "Luca Bruno <lucabru@src.gnome.org>";
+  lewo = "Antoine Eiche <lewo@abesis.fr>";
+  lhvwb = "Nathaniel Baxter <nathaniel.baxter@gmail.com>";
+  lihop = "Leroy Hopson <nixos@leroy.geek.nz>";
+  linquize = "Linquize <linquize@yahoo.com.hk>";
+  linus = "Linus Arver <linusarver@gmail.com>";
+  lnl7 = "Daiderd Jordan <daiderd@gmail.com>";
+  lovek323 = "Jason O'Conal <jason@oconal.id.au>";
+  lowfatcomputing = "Andreas Wagner <andreas.wagner@lowfatcomputing.org>";
+  lsix = "Lancelot SIX <lsix@lancelotsix.com>";
+  ludo = "Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>";
+  luispedro = "Luis Pedro Coelho <luis@luispedro.org>";
+  lukasepple = "Lukas Epple <post@lukasepple.de>";
+  lukego = "Luke Gorrie <luke@snabb.co>";
+  lw = "Sergey Sofeychuk <lw@fmap.me>";
+  madjar = "Georges Dubus <georges.dubus@compiletoi.net>";
+  magnetophon = "Bart Brouns <bart@magnetophon.nl>";
+  mahe = "Matthias Herrmann <matthias.mh.herrmann@gmail.com>";
+  makefu = "Felix Richter <makefu@syntax-fehler.de>";
+  malyn = "Michael Alyn Miller <malyn@strangeGizmo.com>";
+  manveru = "Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@gmail.com>";
+  marcweber = "Marc Weber <marco-oweber@gmx.de>";
+  markus1189 = "Markus Hauck <markus1189@gmail.com>";
+  markWot = "Markus Wotringer <markus@wotringer.de>";
+  martijnvermaat = "Martijn Vermaat <martijn@vermaat.name>";
+  martingms = "Martin Gammelsæter <martin@mg.am>";
+  matejc = "Matej Cotman <cotman.matej@gmail.com>";
+  mathnerd314 = "Mathnerd314 <mathnerd314.gph+hs@gmail.com>";
+  matthiasbeyer = "Matthias Beyer <mail@beyermatthias.de>";
+  maurer = "Matthew Maurer <matthew.r.maurer+nix@gmail.com>";
+  mbakke = "Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>";
+  matthewbauer = "Matthew Bauer <mjbauer95@gmail.com>";
+  mbe = "Brandon Edens <brandonedens@gmail.com>";
+  mboes = "Mathieu Boespflug <mboes@tweag.net>";
+  mcmtroffaes = "Matthias C. M. Troffaes <matthias.troffaes@gmail.com>";
+  meditans = "Carlo Nucera <meditans@gmail.com>";
+  meisternu = "Matt Miemiec <meister@krutt.org>";
+  mic92 = "Jörg Thalheim <joerg@higgsboson.tk>";
+  michaelpj = "Michael Peyton Jones <michaelpj@gmail.com>";
+  michalrus = "Michal Rus <m@michalrus.com>";
+  michelk = "Michel Kuhlmann <michel@kuhlmanns.info>";
+  mimadrid = "Miguel Madrid <mimadrid@ucm.es>";
+  mingchuan = "Ming Chuan <ming@culpring.com>";
+  mirdhyn = "Merlin Gaillard <mirdhyn@gmail.com>";
+  mirrexagon = "Andrew Abbott <mirrexagon@mirrexagon.com>";
+  modulistic = "Pablo Costa <modulistic@gmail.com>";
+  mog = "Matthew O'Gorman <mog-lists@rldn.net>";
+  moosingin3space = "Nathan Moos <moosingin3space@gmail.com>";
+  moretea = "Maarten Hoogendoorn <maarten@moretea.nl>";
+  mornfall = "Petr Ročkai <me@mornfall.net>";
+  MostAwesomeDude = "Corbin Simpson <cds@corbinsimpson.com>";
+  mounium = "Katona László <muoniurn@gmail.com>";
+  MP2E = "Cray Elliott <MP2E@archlinux.us>";
+  mpscholten = "Marc Scholten <marc@mpscholten.de>";
+  msackman = "Matthew Sackman <matthew@wellquite.org>";
+  mschristiansen = "Mikkel Christiansen <mikkel@rheosystems.com>";
+  msteen = "Matthijs Steen <emailmatthijs@gmail.com>";
+  mtreskin = "Max Treskin <zerthurd@gmail.com>";
+  mudri = "James Wood <lamudri@gmail.com>";
+  muflax = "Stefan Dorn <mail@muflax.com>";
+  myrl = "Myrl Hex <myrl.0xf@gmail.com>";
+  nand0p = "Fernando Jose Pando <nando@hex7.com>";
+  nathan-gs = "Nathan Bijnens <nathan@nathan.gs>";
+  Nate-Devv = "Nathan Moore <natedevv@gmail.com>";
+  nckx = "Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <tobias.geerinckx.rice@gmail.com>";
+  nequissimus = "Tim Steinbach <tim@nequissimus.com>";
+  nfjinjing = "Jinjing Wang <nfjinjing@gmail.com>";
+  nico202 = "Nicolò Balzarotti <anothersms@gmail.com>";
+  notthemessiah = "Brian Cohen <brian.cohen.88@gmail.com>";
+  NikolaMandic = "Ratko Mladic <nikola@mandic.email>";
+  np = "Nicolas Pouillard <np.nix@nicolaspouillard.fr>";
+  nslqqq = "Nikita Mikhailov <nslqqq@gmail.com>";
+  obadz = "obadz <obadz-nixos@obadz.com>";
+  ocharles = "Oliver Charles <ollie@ocharles.org.uk>";
+  odi = "Oliver Dunkl <oliver.dunkl@gmail.com>";
+  offline = "Jaka Hudoklin <jakahudoklin@gmail.com>";
+  olcai = "Erik Timan <dev@timan.info>";
+  olejorgenb = "Ole Jørgen Brønner <olejorgenb@yahoo.no>";
+  orbitz = "Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com>";
+  osener = "Ozan Sener <ozan@ozansener.com>";
+  otwieracz = "Slawomir Gonet <slawek@otwiera.cz>";
+  oxij = "Jan Malakhovski <oxij@oxij.org>";
+  page = "Carles Pagès <page@cubata.homelinux.net>";
+  paholg = "Paho Lurie-Gregg <paho@paholg.com>";
+  pakhfn = "Fedor Pakhomov <pakhfn@gmail.com>";
+  palo = "Ingolf Wanger <palipalo9@googlemail.com>";
+  pashev = "Igor Pashev <pashev.igor@gmail.com>";
+  pawelpacana = "Paweł Pacana <pawel.pacana@gmail.com>";
+  pesterhazy = "Paulus Esterhazy <pesterhazy@gmail.com>";
+  peterhoeg = "Peter Hoeg <peter@hoeg.com>";
+  peti = "Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to>";
+  philandstuff = "Philip Potter <philip.g.potter@gmail.com>";
+  phile314 = "Philipp Hausmann <nix@314.ch>";
+  Phlogistique = "Noé Rubinstein <noe.rubinstein@gmail.com>";
+  phreedom = "Evgeny Egorochkin <phreedom@yandex.ru>";
+  phunehehe = "Hoang Xuan Phu <phunehehe@gmail.com>";
+  pierron = "Nicolas B. Pierron <nixos@nbp.name>";
+  piotr = "Piotr Pietraszkiewicz <ppietrasa@gmail.com>";
+  pjbarnoy = "Perry Barnoy <pjbarnoy@gmail.com>";
+  pjones = "Peter Jones <pjones@devalot.com>";
+  pkmx = "Chih-Mao Chen <pkmx.tw@gmail.com>";
+  plcplc = "Philip Lykke Carlsen <plcplc@gmail.com>";
+  pmahoney = "Patrick Mahoney <pat@polycrystal.org>";
+  pmiddend = "Philipp Middendorf <pmidden@secure.mailbox.org>";
+  prikhi = "Pavan Rikhi <pavan.rikhi@gmail.com>";
+  profpatsch = "Profpatsch <mail@profpatsch.de>";
+  proglodyte = "Proglodyte <proglodyte23@gmail.com>";
+  pshendry = "Paul Hendry <paul@pshendry.com>";
+  psibi = "Sibi <sibi@psibi.in>";
+  pSub = "Pascal Wittmann <mail@pascal-wittmann.de>";
+  puffnfresh = "Brian McKenna <brian@brianmckenna.org>";
+  pxc = "Patrick Callahan <patrick.callahan@latitudeengineering.com>";
+  qknight = "Joachim Schiele <js@lastlog.de>";
+  ragge = "Ragnar Dahlen <r.dahlen@gmail.com>";
+  ralith = "Benjamin Saunders <ben.e.saunders@gmail.com>";
+  ramkromberg = "Ram Kromberg <ramkromberg@mail.com>";
+  rardiol = "Ricardo Ardissone <ricardo.ardissone@gmail.com>";
+  rasendubi = "Alexey Shmalko <rasen.dubi@gmail.com>";
+  raskin = "Michael Raskin <7c6f434c@mail.ru>";
+  redbaron = "Maxim Ivanov <ivanov.maxim@gmail.com>";
+  redvers = "Redvers Davies <red@infect.me>";
+  refnil = "Martin Lavoie <broemartino@gmail.com>";
+  relrod = "Ricky Elrod <ricky@elrod.me>";
+  renzo = "Renzo Carbonara <renzocarbonara@gmail.com>";
+  retrry = "Tadas Barzdžius <retrry@gmail.com>";
+  rick68 = "Wei-Ming Yang <rick68@gmail.com>";
+  rickynils = "Rickard Nilsson <rickynils@gmail.com>";
+  rnhmjoj = "Michele Guerini Rocco <micheleguerinirocco@me.com>";
+  rob = "Rob Vermaas <rob.vermaas@gmail.com>";
+  robberer = "Longrin Wischnewski <robberer@freakmail.de>";
+  robbinch = "Robbin C. <robbinch33@gmail.com>";
+  robgssp = "Rob Glossop <robgssp@gmail.com>";
+  roblabla = "Robin Lambertz <robinlambertz+dev@gmail.com>";
+  roconnor = "Russell O'Connor <roconnor@theorem.ca>";
+  romildo = "José Romildo Malaquias <malaquias@gmail.com>";
+  rszibele = "Richard Szibele <richard_szibele@hotmail.com>";
+  rushmorem = "Rushmore Mushambi <rushmore@webenchanter.com>";
+  rvl = "Rodney Lorrimar <dev+nix@rodney.id.au>";
+  rvlander = "Gaëtan André <rvlander@gaetanandre.eu>";
+  ryanartecona = "Ryan Artecona <ryanartecona@gmail.com>";
+  ryantm = "Ryan Mulligan <ryan@ryantm.com>";
+  ryansydnor = "Ryan Sydnor <ryan.t.sydnor@gmail.com>";
+  rycee = "Robert Helgesson <robert@rycee.net>";
+  ryneeverett = "Ryne Everett <ryneeverett@gmail.com>";
+  s1lvester = "Markus Silvester <s1lvester@bockhacker.me>";
+  samuelrivas = "Samuel Rivas <samuelrivas@gmail.com>";
+  sander = "Sander van der Burg <s.vanderburg@tudelft.nl>";
+  schmitthenner = "Fabian Schmitthenner <development@schmitthenner.eu>";
+  schristo = "Scott Christopher <schristopher@konputa.com>";
+  scolobb = "Sergiu Ivanov <sivanov@colimite.fr>";
+  sepi = "Raffael Mancini <raffael@mancini.lu>";
+  seppeljordan = "Sebastian Jordan <sebastian.jordan.mail@googlemail.com>";
+  sheenobu = "Sheena Artrip <sheena.artrip@gmail.com>";
+  sheganinans = "Aistis Raulinaitis <sheganinans@gmail.com>";
+  shell = "Shell Turner <cam.turn@gmail.com>";
+  shlevy = "Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>";
+  siddharthist = "Langston Barrett <langston.barrett@gmail.com>";
+  simonvandel = "Simon Vandel Sillesen <simon.vandel@gmail.com>";
+  sjagoe = "Simon Jagoe <simon@simonjagoe.com>";
+  sjmackenzie = "Stewart Mackenzie <setori88@gmail.com>";
+  sjourdois = "Stéphane ‘kwisatz’ Jourdois <sjourdois@gmail.com>";
+  skeidel = "Sven Keidel <svenkeidel@gmail.com>";
+  skrzyp = "Jakub Skrzypnik <jot.skrzyp@gmail.com>";
+  sleexyz = "Sean Lee <freshdried@gmail.com>";
+  smironov = "Sergey Mironov <ierton@gmail.com>";
+  solson = "Scott Olson <scott@solson.me>";
+  spacefrogg = "Michael Raitza <spacefrogg-nixos@meterriblecrew.net>";
+  spencerjanssen = "Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen@gmail.com>";
+  spinus = "Tomasz Czyż <tomasz.czyz@gmail.com>";
+  sprock = "Roger Mason <rmason@mun.ca>";
+  spwhitt = "Spencer Whitt <sw@swhitt.me>";
+  SShrike = "Severen Redwood <severen@shrike.me>";
+  stephenmw = "Stephen Weinberg <stephen@q5comm.com>";
+  steveej = "Stefan Junker <mail@stefanjunker.de>";
+  swarren83 = "Shawn Warren <shawn.w.warren@gmail.com>";
+  swistak35 = "Rafał Łasocha <me@swistak35.com>";
+  szczyp = "Szczyp <qb@szczyp.com>";
+  sztupi = "Attila Sztupak <attila.sztupak@gmail.com>";
+  taeer = "Taeer Bar-Yam <taeer@necsi.edu>";
+  tailhook = "Paul Colomiets <paul@colomiets.name>";
+  taktoa = "Remy Goldschmidt <taktoa@gmail.com>";
+  tavyc = "Octavian Cerna <octavian.cerna@gmail.com>";
+  teh = "Tom Hunger <tehunger@gmail.com>";
+  telotortium = "Robert Irelan <rirelan@gmail.com>";
+  thall = "Niclas Thall <niclas.thall@gmail.com>";
+  thammers = "Tobias Hammerschmidt <jawr@gmx.de>";
+  the-kenny = "Moritz Ulrich <moritz@tarn-vedra.de>";
+  theuni = "Christian Theune <ct@flyingcircus.io>";
+  thoughtpolice = "Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>";
+  timbertson = "Tim Cuthbertson <tim@gfxmonk.net>";
+  titanous = "Jonathan Rudenberg <jonathan@titanous.com>";
+  tohl = "Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com>";
+  tokudan = "Daniel Frank <git@danielfrank.net>";
+  tomberek = "Thomas Bereknyei <tomberek@gmail.com>";
+  travisbhartwell = "Travis B. Hartwell <nafai@travishartwell.net>";
+  trino = "Hubert Mühlhans <muehlhans.hubert@ekodia.de>";
+  tstrobel = "Thomas Strobel <4ZKTUB6TEP74PYJOPWIR013S2AV29YUBW5F9ZH2F4D5UMJUJ6S@hash.domains>";
+  ttuegel = "Thomas Tuegel <ttuegel@gmail.com>";
+  tv = "Tomislav Viljetić <tv@shackspace.de>";
+  tvestelind = "Tomas Vestelind <tomas.vestelind@fripost.org>";
+  twey = "James ‘Twey’ Kay <twey@twey.co.uk>";
+  uralbash = "Svintsov Dmitry <root@uralbash.ru>";
+  urkud = "Yury G. Kudryashov <urkud+nix@ya.ru>";
+  vandenoever = "Jos van den Oever <jos@vandenoever.info>";
+  vanzef = "Ivan Solyankin <vanzef@gmail.com>";
+  vbgl = "Vincent Laporte <Vincent.Laporte@gmail.com>";
+  vbmithr = "Vincent Bernardoff <vb@luminar.eu.org>";
+  vcunat = "Vladimír Čunát <vcunat@gmail.com>";
+  viric = "Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric@viric.name>";
+  vizanto = "Danny Wilson <danny@prime.vc>";
+  vlstill = "Vladimír Štill <xstill@fi.muni.cz>";
+  vmandela = "Venkateswara Rao Mandela <venkat.mandela@gmail.com>";
+  vozz = "Oliver Hunt <oliver.huntuk@gmail.com>";
+  vrthra = "Rahul Gopinath <rahul@gopinath.org>";
+  wedens = "wedens <kirill.wedens@gmail.com>";
+  willtim = "Tim Philip Williams <tim.williams.public@gmail.com>";
+  winden = "Antonio Vargas Gonzalez <windenntw@gmail.com>";
+  wizeman = "Ricardo M. Correia <rcorreia@wizy.org>";
+  wjlroe = "William Roe <willroe@gmail.com>";
+  wkennington = "William A. Kennington III <william@wkennington.com>";
+  wmertens = "Wout Mertens <Wout.Mertens@gmail.com>";
+  womfoo = "Kranium Gikos Mendoza <kranium@gikos.net>";
+  wscott = "Wayne Scott <wsc9tt@gmail.com>";
+  wyvie = "Elijah Rum <elijahrum@gmail.com>";
+  yarr = "Dmitry V. <savraz@gmail.com>";
+  yurrriq = "Eric Bailey <eric@ericb.me>";
+  z77z = "Marco Maggesi <maggesi@math.unifi.it>";
+  zagy = "Christian Zagrodnick <cz@flyingcircus.io>";
+  zef = "Zef Hemel <zef@zef.me>";
+  zimbatm = "zimbatm <zimbatm@zimbatm.com>";
+  zohl = "Al Zohali <zohl@fmap.me>";
+  zoomulator = "Kim Simmons <zoomulator@gmail.com>";
+  amiloradovsky = "Andrew Miloradovsky <miloradovsky@gmail.com>";
+}

lib/meta.nix

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 /* Some functions for manipulating meta attributes, as well as the
    name attribute. */
 
-{ lib }:
+let lib = import ./default.nix;
+in
 
 rec {
 
@@ -16,11 +17,6 @@ rec {
     drv // { meta = (drv.meta or {}) // newAttrs; };
 
 
-  /* Disable Hydra builds of given derivation.
-  */
-  dontDistribute = drv: addMetaAttrs { hydraPlatforms = []; } drv;
-
-
   /* Change the symbolic name of a package for presentation purposes
      (i.e., so that nix-env users can tell them apart).
   */
@@ -49,7 +45,7 @@ rec {
   /* Decrease the nix-env priority of the package, i.e., other
      versions/variants of the package will be preferred.
   */
-  lowPrio = drv: addMetaAttrs { priority = 10; } drv;
+  lowPrio = drv: addMetaAttrs { priority = "10"; } drv;
 
 
   /* Apply lowPrio to an attrset with derivations
@@ -60,30 +56,11 @@ rec {
   /* Increase the nix-env priority of the package, i.e., this
      version/variant of the package will be preferred.
   */
-  hiPrio = drv: addMetaAttrs { priority = -10; } drv;
+  hiPrio = drv: addMetaAttrs { priority = "-10"; } drv;
 
 
   /* Apply hiPrio to an attrset with derivations
   */
   hiPrioSet = set: mapDerivationAttrset hiPrio set;
 
-
-  /* Check to see if a platform is matched by the given `meta.platforms`
-     element.
-
-     A `meta.platform` pattern is either
-
-       1. (legacy) a system string.
-
-       2. (modern) a pattern for the platform `parsed` field.
-
-     We can inject these into a patten for the whole of a structured platform,
-     and then match that.
-  */
-  platformMatch = platform: elem: let
-      pattern =
-        if builtins.isString elem
-        then { system = elem; }
-        else { parsed = elem; };
-    in lib.matchAttrs pattern platform;
 }

lib/minver.nix

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Expose the minimum required version for evaluating Nixpkgs
-"1.11"
+"1.10"

lib/modules.nix

@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@
-{ lib }:
-
-with lib.lists;
-with lib.strings;
-with lib.trivial;
-with lib.attrsets;
-with lib.options;
-with lib.debug;
-with lib.types;
+with import ./lists.nix;
+with import ./trivial.nix;
+with import ./attrsets.nix;
+with import ./options.nix;
+with import ./debug.nix;
+with import ./types.nix;
 
 rec {
 
@@ -22,8 +19,7 @@ rec {
                 , prefix ? []
                 , # This should only be used for special arguments that need to be evaluated
                   # when resolving module structure (like in imports). For everything else,
-                  # there's _module.args. If specialArgs.modulesPath is defined it will be
-                  # used as the base path for disabledModules.
+                  # there's _module.args.
                   specialArgs ? {}
                 , # This would be remove in the future, Prefer _module.args option instead.
                   args ? {}
@@ -61,7 +57,10 @@ rec {
 
       closed = closeModules (modules ++ [ internalModule ]) ({ inherit config options; lib = import ./.; } // specialArgs);
 
-      options = mergeModules prefix (reverseList (filterModules (specialArgs.modulesPath or "") closed));
+      # Note: the list of modules is reversed to maintain backward
+      # compatibility with the old module system.  Not sure if this is
+      # the most sensible policy.
+      options = mergeModules prefix (reverseList closed);
 
       # Traverse options and extract the option values into the final
       # config set.  At the same time, check whether all option
@@ -87,20 +86,10 @@ rec {
       result = { inherit options config; };
     in result;
 
-
- # Filter disabled modules. Modules can be disabled allowing
- # their implementation to be replaced.
- filterModules = modulesPath: modules:
-   let
-     moduleKey = m: if isString m then toString modulesPath + "/" + m else toString m;
-     disabledKeys = map moduleKey (concatMap (m: m.disabledModules) modules);
-   in
-     filter (m: !(elem m.key disabledKeys)) modules;
-
   /* Close a set of modules under the ‘imports’ relation. */
   closeModules = modules: args:
     let
-      toClosureList = file: parentKey: imap1 (n: x:
+      toClosureList = file: parentKey: imap (n: x:
         if isAttrs x || isFunction x then
           let key = "${parentKey}:anon-${toString n}"; in
           unifyModuleSyntax file key (unpackSubmodule (applyIfFunction key) x args)
@@ -116,18 +105,17 @@ rec {
   /* Massage a module into canonical form, that is, a set consisting
      of ‘options’, ‘config’ and ‘imports’ attributes. */
   unifyModuleSyntax = file: key: m:
-    let metaSet = if m ? meta
+    let metaSet = if m ? meta 
       then { meta = m.meta; }
       else {};
     in
     if m ? config || m ? options then
-      let badAttrs = removeAttrs m ["_file" "key" "disabledModules" "imports" "options" "config" "meta"]; in
+      let badAttrs = removeAttrs m ["imports" "options" "config" "key" "_file" "meta"]; in
       if badAttrs != {} then
         throw "Module `${key}' has an unsupported attribute `${head (attrNames badAttrs)}'. This is caused by assignments to the top-level attributes `config' or `options'."
       else
         { file = m._file or file;
           key = toString m.key or key;
-          disabledModules = m.disabledModules or [];
           imports = m.imports or [];
           options = m.options or {};
           config = mkMerge [ (m.config or {}) metaSet ];
@@ -135,10 +123,9 @@ rec {
     else
       { file = m._file or file;
         key = toString m.key or key;
-        disabledModules = m.disabledModules or [];
         imports = m.require or [] ++ m.imports or [];
         options = {};
-        config = mkMerge [ (removeAttrs m ["_file" "key" "disabledModules" "require" "imports"]) metaSet ];
+        config = mkMerge [ (removeAttrs m ["key" "_file" "require" "imports"]) metaSet ];
       };
 
   applyIfFunction = key: f: args@{ config, options, lib, ... }: if isFunction f then
@@ -155,7 +142,7 @@ rec {
       # a module will resolve strictly the attributes used as argument but
       # not their values.  The values are forwarding the result of the
       # evaluation of the option.
-      requiredArgs = builtins.attrNames (lib.functionArgs f);
+      requiredArgs = builtins.attrNames (builtins.functionArgs f);
       context = name: ''while evaluating the module argument `${name}' in "${key}":'';
       extraArgs = builtins.listToAttrs (map (name: {
         inherit name;
@@ -243,20 +230,12 @@ rec {
      correspond to the definition of 'loc' in 'opt.file'. */
   mergeOptionDecls = loc: opts:
     foldl' (res: opt:
-      let t  = res.type;
-          t' = opt.options.type;
-          mergedType = t.typeMerge t'.functor;
-          typesMergeable = mergedType != null;
-          typeSet = if (bothHave "type") && typesMergeable
-                       then { type = mergedType; }
-                       else {};
-          bothHave = k: opt.options ? ${k} && res ? ${k};
-      in
-      if bothHave "default" ||
-         bothHave "example" ||
-         bothHave "description" ||
-         bothHave "apply" ||
-         (bothHave "type" && (! typesMergeable))
+      if opt.options ? default && res ? default ||
+         opt.options ? example && res ? example ||
+         opt.options ? description && res ? description ||
+         opt.options ? apply && res ? apply ||
+         # Accept to merge options which have identical types.
+         opt.options ? type && res ? type && opt.options.type.name != res.type.name
       then
         throw "The option `${showOption loc}' in `${opt.file}' is already declared in ${showFiles res.declarations}."
       else
@@ -278,7 +257,7 @@ rec {
         in opt.options // res //
           { declarations = res.declarations ++ [opt.file];
             options = submodules;
-          } // typeSet
+          }
     ) { inherit loc; declarations = []; options = []; } opts;
 
   /* Merge all the definitions of an option to produce the final
@@ -338,7 +317,7 @@ rec {
     # Type-check the remaining definitions, and merge them.
     mergedValue = foldl' (res: def:
       if type.check def.value then res
-      else throw "The option value `${showOption loc}' in `${def.file}' is not of type `${type.description}'.")
+      else throw "The option value `${showOption loc}' in `${def.file}' is not a ${type.name}.")
       (type.merge loc defsFinal) defsFinal;
 
     isDefined = defsFinal != [];
@@ -387,13 +366,10 @@ rec {
     if def._type or "" == "merge" then
       concatMap dischargeProperties def.contents
     else if def._type or "" == "if" then
-      if isBool def.condition then
-        if def.condition then
-          dischargeProperties def.content
-        else
-          [ ]
+      if def.condition then
+        dischargeProperties def.content
       else
-        throw "‘mkIf’ called with a non-Boolean condition"
+        [ ]
     else
       [ def ];
 
@@ -425,7 +401,7 @@ rec {
     in concatMap (def: if getPrio def == highestPrio then [(strip def)] else []) defs;
 
   /* Sort a list of properties.  The sort priority of a property is
-     1000 by default, but can be overridden by wrapping the property
+     1000 by default, but can be overriden by wrapping the property
      using mkOrder. */
   sortProperties = defs:
     let
@@ -445,14 +421,12 @@ rec {
       options = opt.options or
         (throw "Option `${showOption loc'}' has type optionSet but has no option attribute, in ${showFiles opt.declarations}.");
       f = tp:
-        let optionSetIn = type: (tp.name == type) && (tp.functor.wrapped.name == "optionSet");
-        in
         if tp.name == "option set" || tp.name == "submodule" then
           throw "The option ${showOption loc} uses submodules without a wrapping type, in ${showFiles opt.declarations}."
-        else if optionSetIn "attrsOf" then types.attrsOf (types.submodule options)
-        else if optionSetIn "loaOf"   then types.loaOf   (types.submodule options)
-        else if optionSetIn "listOf"  then types.listOf  (types.submodule options)
-        else if optionSetIn "nullOr"  then types.nullOr  (types.submodule options)
+        else if tp.name == "attribute set of option sets" then types.attrsOf (types.submodule options)
+        else if tp.name == "list or attribute set of option sets" then types.loaOf (types.submodule options)
+        else if tp.name == "list of option sets" then types.listOf (types.submodule options)
+        else if tp.name == "null or option set" then types.nullOr (types.submodule options)
         else tp;
     in
       if opt.type.getSubModules or null == null
@@ -571,84 +545,6 @@ rec {
     use = builtins.trace "Obsolete option `${showOption from}' is used. It was renamed to `${showOption to}'.";
   };
 
-  /* Return a module that causes a warning to be shown if any of the "from"
-     option is defined; the defined values can be used in the "mergeFn" to set
-     the "to" value.
-     This function can be used to merge multiple options into one that has a
-     different type.
-
-     "mergeFn" takes the module "config" as a parameter and must return a value
-     of "to" option type.
-
-       mkMergedOptionModule
-         [ [ "a" "b" "c" ]
-           [ "d" "e" "f" ] ]
-         [ "x" "y" "z" ]
-         (config:
-           let value = p: getAttrFromPath p config;
-           in
-           if      (value [ "a" "b" "c" ]) == true then "foo"
-           else if (value [ "d" "e" "f" ]) == true then "bar"
-           else "baz")
-
-     - options.a.b.c is a removed boolean option
-     - options.d.e.f is a removed boolean option
-     - options.x.y.z is a new str option that combines a.b.c and d.e.f
-       functionality
-
-     This show a warning if any a.b.c or d.e.f is set, and set the value of
-     x.y.z to the result of the merge function
-  */
-  mkMergedOptionModule = from: to: mergeFn:
-    { config, options, ... }:
-    {
-      options = foldl recursiveUpdate {} (map (path: setAttrByPath path (mkOption {
-        visible = false;
-        # To use the value in mergeFn without triggering errors
-        default = "_mkMergedOptionModule";
-      })) from);
-
-      config = {
-        warnings = filter (x: x != "") (map (f:
-          let val = getAttrFromPath f config;
-              opt = getAttrFromPath f options;
-          in
-          optionalString
-            (val != "_mkMergedOptionModule")
-            "The option `${showOption f}' defined in ${showFiles opt.files} has been changed to `${showOption to}' that has a different type. Please read `${showOption to}' documentation and update your configuration accordingly."
-        ) from);
-      } // setAttrByPath to (mkMerge
-             (optional
-               (any (f: (getAttrFromPath f config) != "_mkMergedOptionModule") from)
-               (mergeFn config)));
-    };
-
-  /* Single "from" version of mkMergedOptionModule.
-     Return a module that causes a warning to be shown if the "from" option is
-     defined; the defined value can be used in the "mergeFn" to set the "to"
-     value.
-     This function can be used to change an option into another that has a
-     different type.
-
-     "mergeFn" takes the module "config" as a parameter and must return a value of
-     "to" option type.
-
-       mkChangedOptionModule [ "a" "b" "c" ] [ "x" "y" "z" ]
-         (config:
-           let value = getAttrFromPath [ "a" "b" "c" ] config;
-           in
-           if   value > 100 then "high"
-           else "normal")
-
-     - options.a.b.c is a removed int option
-     - options.x.y.z is a new str option that supersedes a.b.c
-
-     This show a warning if a.b.c is set, and set the value of x.y.z to the
-     result of the change function
-  */
-  mkChangedOptionModule = from: to: changeFn:
-    mkMergedOptionModule [ from ] to changeFn;
-
   /* Like ‘mkRenamedOptionModule’, but doesn't show a warning. */
   mkAliasOptionModule = from: to: doRename {
     inherit from to;
@@ -660,7 +556,7 @@ rec {
   doRename = { from, to, visible, warn, use }:
     let
       toOf = attrByPath to
-        (abort "Renaming error: option `${showOption to}' does not exist.");
+        (abort "Renaming error: option `${showOption to}' does not exists.");
     in
       { config, options, ... }:
       { options = setAttrByPath from (mkOption {

lib/options.nix

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 # Nixpkgs/NixOS option handling.
-{ lib }:
 
-with lib.trivial;
-with lib.lists;
-with lib.attrsets;
-with lib.strings;
+let lib = import ./default.nix; in
+
+with import ./trivial.nix;
+with import ./lists.nix;
+with import ./attrsets.nix;
+with import ./strings.nix;
 
 rec {
 
@@ -14,7 +15,6 @@ rec {
     , defaultText ? null # Textual representation of the default, for in the manual.
     , example ? null # Example value used in the manual.
     , description ? null # String describing the option.
-    , relatedPackages ? null # Related packages used in the manual (see `genRelatedPackages` in ../nixos/doc/manual/default.nix).
     , type ? null # Option type, providing type-checking and value merging.
     , apply ? null # Function that converts the option value to something else.
     , internal ? null # Whether the option is for NixOS developers only.
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ rec {
   getValues = map (x: x.value);
   getFiles = map (x: x.file);
 
+
   # Generate documentation template from the list of option declaration like
   # the set generated with filterOptionSets.
   optionAttrSetToDocList = optionAttrSetToDocList' [];
@@ -85,19 +86,17 @@ rec {
     concatMap (opt:
       let
         docOption = rec {
-          loc = opt.loc;
           name = showOption opt.loc;
           description = opt.description or (throw "Option `${name}' has no description.");
           declarations = filter (x: x != unknownModule) opt.declarations;
           internal = opt.internal or false;
           visible = opt.visible or true;
           readOnly = opt.readOnly or false;
-          type = opt.type.description or null;
+          type = opt.type.name or null;
         }
-        // optionalAttrs (opt ? example) { example = scrubOptionValue opt.example; }
-        // optionalAttrs (opt ? default) { default = scrubOptionValue opt.default; }
-        // optionalAttrs (opt ? defaultText) { default = opt.defaultText; }
-        // optionalAttrs (opt ? relatedPackages && opt.relatedPackages != null) { inherit (opt) relatedPackages; };
+        // (if opt ? example then { example = scrubOptionValue opt.example; } else {})
+        // (if opt ? default then { default = scrubOptionValue opt.default; } else {})
+        // (if opt ? defaultText then { default = opt.defaultText; } else {});
 
         subOptions =
           let ss = opt.type.getSubOptions opt.loc;

lib/platforms.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+let lists = import ./lists.nix; in
+
+rec {
+  all = linux ++ darwin ++ cygwin ++ freebsd ++ openbsd ++ netbsd ++ illumos;
+  allBut = platforms: lists.filter (x: !(builtins.elem x platforms)) all;
+  none = [];
+
+  arm = ["armv5tel-linux" "armv6l-linux" "armv7l-linux" ];
+  i686 = ["i686-linux" "i686-freebsd" "i686-netbsd" "i686-cygwin"];
+  mips = [ "mips64el-linux" ];
+  x86_64 = ["x86_64-linux" "x86_64-darwin" "x86_64-freebsd" "x86_64-openbsd" "x86_64-netbsd" "x86_64-cygwin"];
+
+  cygwin = ["i686-cygwin" "x86_64-cygwin"];
+  darwin = ["x86_64-darwin"];
+  freebsd = ["i686-freebsd" "x86_64-freebsd"];
+  gnu = linux; /* ++ hurd ++ kfreebsd ++ ... */
+  illumos = ["x86_64-solaris"];
+  linux = ["i686-linux" "x86_64-linux" "armv5tel-linux" "armv6l-linux" "armv7l-linux" "mips64el-linux"];
+  netbsd = ["i686-netbsd" "x86_64-netbsd"];
+  openbsd = ["i686-openbsd" "x86_64-openbsd"];
+  unix = linux ++ darwin ++ freebsd ++ openbsd ++ netbsd ++ illumos;
+
+  mesaPlatforms = ["i686-linux" "x86_64-linux" "x86_64-darwin" "armv5tel-linux" "armv6l-linux" "armv7l-linux"];
+}

lib/sandbox.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+with import ./strings.nix;
+
+/* Helpers for creating lisp S-exprs for the Apple sandbox
+
+lib.sandbox.allowFileRead [ "/usr/bin/file" ];
+  # => "(allow file-read* (literal \"/usr/bin/file\"))";
+
+lib.sandbox.allowFileRead {
+  literal = [ "/usr/bin/file" ];
+  subpath = [ "/usr/lib/system" ];
+}
+  # => "(allow file-read* (literal \"/usr/bin/file\") (subpath \"/usr/lib/system\"))"
+*/
+
+let
+
+sexp = tokens: "(" + builtins.concatStringsSep " " tokens + ")";
+generateFileList = files:
+  if builtins.isList files
+    then concatMapStringsSep " " (x: sexp [ "literal" ''"${x}"'' ]) files
+    else if builtins.isString files
+      then generateFileList [ files ]
+      else concatStringsSep " " (
+        (map (x: sexp [ "literal" ''"${x}"'' ]) (files.literal or [])) ++
+        (map (x: sexp [ "subpath" ''"${x}"'' ]) (files.subpath or []))
+      );
+applyToFiles = f: act: files: f "${act} ${generateFileList files}";
+genActions = actionName: let
+  action = feature: sexp [ actionName feature ];
+  self = {
+    "${actionName}" = action;
+    "${actionName}File" = applyToFiles action "file*";
+    "${actionName}FileRead" = applyToFiles action "file-read*";
+    "${actionName}FileReadMetadata" = applyToFiles action "file-read-metadata";
+    "${actionName}DirectoryList" = self."${actionName}FileReadMetadata";
+    "${actionName}FileWrite" = applyToFiles action "file-write*";
+    "${actionName}FileWriteMetadata" = applyToFiles action "file-write-metadata";
+  };
+  in self;
+
+in
+
+genActions "allow" // genActions "deny" // {
+  importProfile = derivation: ''
+    (import "${derivation}")
+  '';
+}

lib/sources.nix

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Functions for copying sources to the Nix store.
-{ lib }:
+
+let lib = import ./default.nix; in
 
 rec {
 
@@ -11,50 +12,20 @@ rec {
 
   # Bring in a path as a source, filtering out all Subversion and CVS
   # directories, as well as backup files (*~).
-  cleanSourceFilter = name: type: let baseName = baseNameOf (toString name); in ! (
-    # Filter out Subversion and CVS directories.
-    (type == "directory" && (baseName == ".git" || baseName == ".svn" || baseName == "CVS" || baseName == ".hg")) ||
-    # Filter out editor backup / swap files.
-    lib.hasSuffix "~" baseName ||
-    builtins.match "^\\.sw[a-z]$" baseName != null ||
-    builtins.match "^\\..*\\.sw[a-z]$" baseName != null ||
+  cleanSource =
+    let filter = name: type: let baseName = baseNameOf (toString name); in ! (
+      # Filter out Subversion and CVS directories.
+      (type == "directory" && (baseName == ".git" || baseName == ".svn" || baseName == "CVS" || baseName == ".hg")) ||
+      # Filter out backup files.
+      lib.hasSuffix "~" baseName ||
+      # Filter out generates files.
+      lib.hasSuffix ".o" baseName ||
+      lib.hasSuffix ".so" baseName ||
+      # Filter out nix-build result symlinks
+      (type == "symlink" && lib.hasPrefix "result" baseName)
+    );
+    in src: builtins.filterSource filter src;
 
-    # Filter out generates files.
-    lib.hasSuffix ".o" baseName ||
-    lib.hasSuffix ".so" baseName ||
-    # Filter out nix-build result symlinks
-    (type == "symlink" && lib.hasPrefix "result" baseName)
-  );
-
-  cleanSource = src: cleanSourceWith { filter = cleanSourceFilter; inherit src; };
-
-  # Like `builtins.filterSource`, except it will compose with itself,
-  # allowing you to chain multiple calls together without any
-  # intermediate copies being put in the nix store.
-  #
-  #     lib.cleanSourceWith f (lib.cleanSourceWith g ./.)     # Succeeds!
-  #     builtins.filterSource f (builtins.filterSource g ./.) # Fails!
-  cleanSourceWith = { filter, src }:
-    let
-      isFiltered = src ? _isLibCleanSourceWith;
-      origSrc = if isFiltered then src.origSrc else src;
-      filter' = if isFiltered then name: type: filter name type && src.filter name type else filter;
-    in {
-      inherit origSrc;
-      filter = filter';
-      outPath = builtins.filterSource filter' origSrc;
-      _isLibCleanSourceWith = true;
-    };
-
-  # Filter sources by a list of regular expressions.
-  #
-  # E.g. `src = sourceByRegex ./my-subproject [".*\.py$" "^database.sql$"]`
-  sourceByRegex = src: regexes: cleanSourceWith {
-    filter = (path: type:
-      let relPath = lib.removePrefix (toString src + "/") (toString path);
-      in lib.any (re: builtins.match re relPath != null) regexes);
-    inherit src;
-  };
 
   # Get all files ending with the specified suffices from the given
   # directory or its descendants.  E.g. `sourceFilesBySuffices ./dir
@@ -63,7 +34,7 @@ rec {
     let filter = name: type:
       let base = baseNameOf (toString name);
       in type == "directory" || lib.any (ext: lib.hasSuffix ext base) exts;
-    in cleanSourceWith { inherit filter; src = path; };
+    in builtins.filterSource filter path;
 
 
   # Get the commit id of a git repo
@@ -93,8 +64,4 @@ rec {
                 else lib.head matchRef
            else throw ("Not a .git directory: " + path);
     in lib.flip readCommitFromFile "HEAD";
-
-  pathHasContext = builtins.hasContext or (lib.hasPrefix builtins.storeDir);
-
-  canCleanSource = src: src ? _isLibCleanSourceWith || !(pathHasContext (toString src));
 }

lib/strings-with-deps.nix

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-{ lib }:
 /*
 Usage:
 
@@ -41,9 +40,9 @@ Usage:
   [1] maybe this behaviour should be removed to keep things simple (?)
 */
 
-with lib.lists;
-with lib.attrsets;
-with lib.strings;
+with import ./lists.nix;
+with import ./attrsets.nix;
+with import ./strings.nix;
 
 rec {
 

lib/strings.nix

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /* String manipulation functions. */
-{ lib }:
-let
+
+let lib = import ./default.nix;
 
 inherit (builtins) length;
 
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ rec {
        concatImapStrings (pos: x: "${toString pos}-${x}") ["foo" "bar"]
        => "1-foo2-bar"
   */
-  concatImapStrings = f: list: concatStrings (lib.imap1 f list);
+  concatImapStrings = f: list: concatStrings (lib.imap f list);
 
   /* Place an element between each element of a list
 
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ rec {
        concatImapStringsSep "-" (pos: x: toString (x / pos)) [ 6 6 6 ]
        => "6-3-2"
   */
-  concatImapStringsSep = sep: f: list: concatStringsSep sep (lib.imap1 f list);
+  concatImapStringsSep = sep: f: list: concatStringsSep sep (lib.imap f list);
 
   /* Construct a Unix-style search path consisting of each `subDir"
      directory of the given list of packages.
@@ -126,8 +126,8 @@ rec {
   */
   makePerlPath = makeSearchPathOutput "lib" "lib/perl5/site_perl";
 
-  /* Depending on the boolean `cond', return either the given string
-     or the empty string. Useful to concatenate against a bigger string.
+  /* Dependening on the boolean `cond', return either the given string
+     or the empty string. Useful to contatenate against a bigger string.
 
      Example:
        optionalString true "some-string"
@@ -219,14 +219,6 @@ rec {
   */
   escapeShellArgs = concatMapStringsSep " " escapeShellArg;
 
-  /* Turn a string into a Nix expression representing that string
-
-     Example:
-       escapeNixString "hello\${}\n"
-       => "\"hello\\\${}\\n\""
-  */
-  escapeNixString = s: escape ["$"] (builtins.toJSON s);
-
   /* Obsolete - use replaceStrings instead. */
   replaceChars = builtins.replaceStrings or (
     del: new: s:
@@ -299,7 +291,7 @@ rec {
 
       recurse = index: startAt:
         let cutUntil = i: [(substring startAt (i - startAt) s)]; in
-        if index <= lastSearch then
+        if index < lastSearch then
           if startWithSep index then
             let restartAt = index + sepLen; in
             cutUntil index ++ recurse restartAt restartAt
@@ -446,13 +438,8 @@ rec {
        => true
        isStorePath pkgs.python
        => true
-       isStorePath [] || isStorePath 42 || isStorePath {} || …
-       => false
   */
-  isStorePath = x:
-       builtins.isString x
-    && builtins.substring 0 1 (toString x) == "/"
-    && dirOf (builtins.toPath x) == builtins.storeDir;
+  isStorePath = x: builtins.substring 0 1 (toString x) == "/" && dirOf (builtins.toPath x) == builtins.storeDir;
 
   /* Convert string to int
      Obviously, it is a bit hacky to use fromJSON that way.
@@ -489,8 +476,10 @@ rec {
   readPathsFromFile = rootPath: file:
     let
       root = toString rootPath;
-      lines = lib.splitString "\n" (builtins.readFile file);
-      removeComments = lib.filter (line: line != "" && !(lib.hasPrefix "#" line));
+      lines =
+        builtins.map (lib.removeSuffix "\n")
+        (lib.splitString "\n" (builtins.readFile file));
+      removeComments = lib.filter (line: !(lib.hasPrefix "#" line));
       relativePaths = removeComments lines;
       absolutePaths = builtins.map (path: builtins.toPath (root + "/" + path)) relativePaths;
     in

lib/systems.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+# Define the list of system with their properties.  Only systems tested for
+# Nixpkgs are listed below
+
+with import ./lists.nix;
+with import ./types.nix;
+with import ./attrsets.nix;
+
+let
+  lib = import ./default.nix;
+  setTypes = type:
+    mapAttrs (name: value:
+      setType type ({inherit name;} // value)
+    );
+in
+
+rec {
+
+  isSignificantByte = isType "significant-byte";
+  significantBytes = setTypes "significant-byte" {
+    bigEndian = {};
+    littleEndian = {};
+  };
+
+
+  isCpuType = x: isType "cpu-type" x
+    && elem x.bits [8 16 32 64 128]
+    && (8 < x.bits -> isSignificantByte x.significantByte);
+
+  cpuTypes = with significantBytes;
+    setTypes "cpu-type" {
+      arm =      { bits = 32; significantByte = littleEndian; };
+      armv5tel = { bits = 32; significantByte = littleEndian; };
+      armv7l   = { bits = 32; significantByte = littleEndian; };
+      i686 =     { bits = 32; significantByte = littleEndian; };
+      powerpc =  { bits = 32; significantByte = bigEndian; };
+      x86_64 =   { bits = 64; significantByte = littleEndian; };
+    };
+
+
+  isExecFormat = isType "exec-format";
+  execFormats = setTypes "exec-format" {
+    aout = {}; # a.out
+    elf = {};
+    macho = {};
+    pe = {};
+    unknow = {};
+  };
+
+
+  isKernel = isType "kernel";
+  kernels = with execFormats;
+    setTypes "kernel" {
+      cygwin =  { execFormat = pe; };
+      darwin =  { execFormat = macho; };
+      freebsd = { execFormat = elf; };
+      linux =   { execFormat = elf; };
+      netbsd =  { execFormat = elf; };
+      none =    { execFormat = unknow; };
+      openbsd = { execFormat = elf; };
+      win32 =   { execFormat = pe; };
+    };
+
+
+  isArchitecture = isType "architecture";
+  architectures = setTypes "architecture" {
+    apple = {};
+    pc = {};
+    unknow = {};
+  };
+
+
+  isSystem = x: isType "system" x
+    && isCpuType x.cpu
+    && isArchitecture x.arch
+    && isKernel x.kernel;
+
+  mkSystem = {
+    cpu ? cpuTypes.i686,
+    arch ? architectures.pc,
+    kernel ? kernels.linux,
+    name ? "${cpu.name}-${arch.name}-${kernel.name}"
+  }: setType "system" {
+    inherit name cpu arch kernel;
+  };
+
+
+  is64Bit = matchAttrs { cpu = { bits = 64; }; };
+  isDarwin = matchAttrs { kernel = kernels.darwin; };
+  isi686 = matchAttrs { cpu = cpuTypes.i686; };
+  isLinux = matchAttrs { kernel = kernels.linux; };
+
+
+  # This should revert the job done by config.guess from the gcc compiler.
+  mkSystemFromString = s: let
+    l = lib.splitString "-" s;
+
+    getCpu = name:
+      attrByPath [name] (throw "Unknow cpuType `${name}'.")
+        cpuTypes;
+    getArch = name:
+      attrByPath [name] (throw "Unknow architecture `${name}'.")
+        architectures;
+    getKernel = name:
+      attrByPath [name] (throw "Unknow kernel `${name}'.")
+        kernels;
+
+    system =
+      if builtins.length l == 2 then
+        mkSystem rec {
+          name = s;
+          cpu = getCpu (head l);
+          arch =
+            if isDarwin system
+            then architectures.apple
+            else architectures.pc;
+          kernel = getKernel (head (tail l));
+        }
+      else
+        mkSystem {
+          name = s;
+          cpu = getCpu (head l);
+          arch = getArch (head (tail l));
+          kernel = getKernel (head (tail (tail l)));
+        };
+  in assert isSystem system; system;
+}

lib/systems/default.nix

@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-{ lib }:
-  let inherit (lib.attrsets) mapAttrs; in
-
-rec {
-  doubles = import ./doubles.nix { inherit lib; };
-  forMeta = import ./for-meta.nix { inherit lib; };
-  parse = import ./parse.nix { inherit lib; };
-  inspect = import ./inspect.nix { inherit lib; };
-  platforms = import ./platforms.nix { inherit lib; };
-  examples = import ./examples.nix { inherit lib; };
-
-  # Elaborate a `localSystem` or `crossSystem` so that it contains everything
-  # necessary.
-  #
-  # `parsed` is inferred from args, both because there are two options with one
-  # clearly prefered, and to prevent cycles. A simpler fixed point where the RHS
-  # always just used `final.*` would fail on both counts.
-  elaborate = args: let
-    final = {
-      # Prefer to parse `config` as it is strictly more informative.
-      parsed = parse.mkSystemFromString (if args ? config then args.config else args.system);
-      # Either of these can be losslessly-extracted from `parsed` iff parsing succeeds.
-      system = parse.doubleFromSystem final.parsed;
-      config = parse.tripleFromSystem final.parsed;
-      # Just a guess, based on `system`
-      platform = platforms.selectBySystem final.system;
-      # Derived meta-data
-      libc =
-        /**/ if final.isDarwin              then "libSystem"
-        else if final.isMinGW               then "msvcrt"
-        else if final.isMusl                then "musl"
-        else if final.isUClibc              then "uclibc"
-        else if final.isAndroid             then "bionic"
-        else if final.isLinux /* default */ then "glibc"
-        # TODO(@Ericson2314) think more about other operating systems
-        else                                     "native/impure";
-      extensions = {
-        sharedLibrary =
-          /**/ if final.isDarwin  then ".dylib"
-          else if final.isWindows then ".dll"
-          else                         ".so";
-        executable =
-          /**/ if final.isWindows then ".exe"
-          else                         "";
-      };
-      # Misc boolean options
-      useAndroidPrebuilt = false;
-    } // mapAttrs (n: v: v final.parsed) inspect.predicates
-      // args;
-  in assert final.useAndroidPrebuilt -> final.isAndroid;
-    final;
-}

lib/systems/doubles.nix

@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-{ lib }:
-let
-  inherit (lib) lists;
-  inherit (lib.systems) parse;
-  inherit (lib.systems.inspect) predicates;
-  inherit (lib.attrsets) matchAttrs;
-
-  all = [
-    "aarch64-linux"
-    "armv5tel-linux" "armv6l-linux" "armv7l-linux"
-
-    "mipsel-linux"
-
-    "i686-cygwin" "i686-freebsd" "i686-linux" "i686-netbsd" "i686-openbsd"
-
-    "x86_64-cygwin" "x86_64-darwin" "x86_64-freebsd" "x86_64-linux"
-    "x86_64-netbsd" "x86_64-openbsd" "x86_64-solaris"
-  ];
-
-  allParsed = map parse.mkSystemFromString all;
-
-  filterDoubles = f: map parse.doubleFromSystem (lists.filter f allParsed);
-
-in rec {
-  inherit all;
-
-  none = [];
-
-  arm     = filterDoubles predicates.isAarch32;
-  aarch64 = filterDoubles predicates.isAarch64;
-  x86     = filterDoubles predicates.isx86;
-  i686    = filterDoubles predicates.isi686;
-  x86_64  = filterDoubles predicates.isx86_64;
-  mips    = filterDoubles predicates.isMips;
-
-  cygwin  = filterDoubles predicates.isCygwin;
-  darwin  = filterDoubles predicates.isDarwin;
-  freebsd = filterDoubles predicates.isFreeBSD;
-  # Should be better, but MinGW is unclear, and HURD is bit-rotted.
-  gnu     = filterDoubles (matchAttrs { kernel = parse.kernels.linux; abi = parse.abis.gnu; });
-  illumos = filterDoubles predicates.isSunOS;
-  linux   = filterDoubles predicates.isLinux;
-  netbsd  = filterDoubles predicates.isNetBSD;
-  openbsd = filterDoubles predicates.isOpenBSD;
-  unix    = filterDoubles predicates.isUnix;
-
-  mesaPlatforms = ["i686-linux" "x86_64-linux" "x86_64-darwin" "armv5tel-linux" "armv6l-linux" "armv7l-linux" "aarch64-linux"];
-}

lib/systems/examples.nix

@@ -1,128 +0,0 @@
-# These can be passed to nixpkgs as either the `localSystem` or
-# `crossSystem`. They are put here for user convenience, but also used by cross
-# tests and linux cross stdenv building, so handle with care!
-{ lib }:
-let platforms = import ./platforms.nix { inherit lib; }; in
-
-rec {
-  #
-  # Linux
-  #
-
-  sheevaplug = rec {
-    config = "armv5tel-unknown-linux-gnueabi";
-    platform = platforms.sheevaplug;
-  };
-
-  raspberryPi = rec {
-    config = "armv6l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf";
-    platform = platforms.raspberrypi;
-  };
-
-  armv7l-hf-multiplatform = rec {
-    config = "armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf";
-    platform = platforms.armv7l-hf-multiplatform;
-  };
-
-  aarch64-multiplatform = rec {
-    config = "aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu";
-    platform = platforms.aarch64-multiplatform;
-  };
-
-  armv5te-android-prebuilt = rec {
-    config = "armv5tel-unknown-linux-androideabi";
-    sdkVer = "21";
-    platform = platforms.armv5te-android;
-    useAndroidPrebuilt = true;
-  };
-
-  armv7a-android-prebuilt = rec {
-    config = "armv7a-unknown-linux-androideabi";
-    sdkVer = "21";
-    platform = platforms.armv7a-android;
-    useAndroidPrebuilt = true;
-  };
-
-  aarch64-android-prebuilt = rec {
-    config = "aarch64-unknown-linux-android";
-    sdkVer = "21";
-    platform = platforms.aarch64-multiplatform;
-    useAndroidPrebuilt = true;
-  };
-
-  scaleway-c1 = armv7l-hf-multiplatform // rec {
-    platform = platforms.scaleway-c1;
-    inherit (platform.gcc) fpu;
-  };
-
-  pogoplug4 = rec {
-    config = "armv5tel-unknown-linux-gnueabi";
-    platform = platforms.pogoplug4;
-  };
-
-  ben-nanonote = rec {
-    config = "mipsel-unknown-linux-uclibc";
-    platform = platforms.ben_nanonote;
-  };
-
-  fuloongminipc = rec {
-    config = "mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu";
-    platform = platforms.fuloong2f_n32;
-  };
-
-  muslpi = raspberryPi // {
-    config = "armv6l-unknown-linux-musleabihf";
-  };
-
-  aarch64-multiplatform-musl = aarch64-multiplatform // {
-    config = "aarch64-unknown-linux-musl";
-  };
-
-  musl64 = { config = "x86_64-unknown-linux-musl"; };
-  musl32  = { config = "i686-unknown-linux-musl"; };
-
-  riscv = bits: {
-    config = "riscv${bits}-unknown-linux-gnu";
-    platform = platforms.riscv-multiplatform bits;
-  };
-  riscv64 = riscv "64";
-  riscv32 = riscv "32";
-
-
-  #
-  # Darwin
-  #
-
-  iphone64 = {
-    config = "aarch64-apple-darwin14";
-    arch = "arm64";
-    libc = "libSystem";
-    platform = {};
-  };
-
-  iphone32 = {
-    config = "arm-apple-darwin10";
-    arch = "armv7-a";
-    libc = "libSystem";
-    platform = {};
-  };
-
-  #
-  # Windows
-  #
-
-  # 32 bit mingw-w64
-  mingw32 = {
-    config = "i686-pc-mingw32";
-    libc = "msvcrt"; # This distinguishes the mingw (non posix) toolchain
-    platform = {};
-  };
-
-  # 64 bit mingw-w64
-  mingwW64 = {
-    # That's the triplet they use in the mingw-w64 docs.
-    config = "x86_64-pc-mingw32";
-    libc = "msvcrt"; # This distinguishes the mingw (non posix) toolchain
-    platform = {};
-  };
-}

lib/systems/for-meta.nix

@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-{ lib }:
-let
-  inherit (lib.systems) parse;
-  inherit (lib.systems.inspect) patterns;
-
-in rec {
-  all     = [ {} ]; # `{}` matches anything
-  none    = [];
-
-  arm     = [ patterns.isAarch32 ];
-  aarch64 = [ patterns.isAarch64 ];
-  x86     = [ patterns.isx86 ];
-  i686    = [ patterns.isi686 ];
-  x86_64  = [ patterns.isx86_64 ];
-  mips    = [ patterns.isMips ];
-
-  cygwin  = [ patterns.isCygwin ];
-  darwin  = [ patterns.isDarwin ];
-  freebsd = [ patterns.isFreeBSD ];
-  # Should be better, but MinGW is unclear, and HURD is bit-rotted.
-  gnu     = [ { kernel = parse.kernels.linux; abi = parse.abis.gnu; } ];
-  illumos = [ patterns.isSunOS ];
-  linux   = [ patterns.isLinux ];
-  netbsd  = [ patterns.isNetBSD ];
-  openbsd = [ patterns.isOpenBSD ];
-  unix    = patterns.isUnix; # Actually a list
-  windows = [ patterns.isWindows ];
-
-  inherit (lib.systems.doubles) mesaPlatforms;
-}

lib/systems/inspect.nix

@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-{ lib }:
-with import ./parse.nix { inherit lib; };
-with lib.attrsets;
-with lib.lists;
-
-rec {
-  patterns = rec {
-    isi686         = { cpu = cpuTypes.i686; };
-    isx86_64       = { cpu = cpuTypes.x86_64; };
-    isPowerPC      = { cpu = cpuTypes.powerpc; };
-    isx86          = { cpu = { family = "x86"; }; };
-    isAarch32      = { cpu = { family = "arm"; bits = 32; }; };
-    isAarch64      = { cpu = { family = "arm"; bits = 64; }; };
-    isMips         = { cpu = { family = "mips"; }; };
-    isRiscV        = { cpu = { family = "riscv"; }; };
-    isWasm         = { cpu = { family = "wasm"; }; };
-
-    is32bit        = { cpu = { bits = 32; }; };
-    is64bit        = { cpu = { bits = 64; }; };
-    isBigEndian    = { cpu = { significantByte = significantBytes.bigEndian; }; };
-    isLittleEndian = { cpu = { significantByte = significantBytes.littleEndian; }; };
-
-    isBSD          = { kernel = { families = { inherit (kernelFamilies) bsd; }; }; };
-    isUnix         = [ isBSD isDarwin isLinux isSunOS isHurd isCygwin ];
-
-    isDarwin       = { kernel = kernels.darwin; };
-    isLinux        = { kernel = kernels.linux; };
-    isSunOS        = { kernel = kernels.solaris; };
-    isFreeBSD      = { kernel = kernels.freebsd; };
-    isHurd         = { kernel = kernels.hurd; };
-    isNetBSD       = { kernel = kernels.netbsd; };
-    isOpenBSD      = { kernel = kernels.openbsd; };
-    isWindows      = { kernel = kernels.windows; };
-    isCygwin       = { kernel = kernels.windows; abi = abis.cygnus; };
-    isMinGW        = { kernel = kernels.windows; abi = abis.gnu; };
-
-    isAndroid      = [ { abi = abis.android; } { abi = abis.androideabi; } ];
-    isMusl         = with abis; map (a: { abi = a; }) [ musl musleabi musleabihf ];
-    isUClibc       = with abis; map (a: { abi = a; }) [ uclibc uclibceabi uclibceabihf ];
-
-    isKexecable    = map (family: { kernel = kernels.linux; cpu.family = family; })
-                       [ "x86" "arm" "aarch64" "mips" ];
-    isEfi          = map (family: { cpu.family = family; })
-                       [ "x86" "arm" "aarch64" ];
-    isSeccomputable = map (family: { kernel = kernels.linux; cpu.family = family; })
-                        [ "x86" "arm" "aarch64" "mips" ];
-
-    # Deprecated after 18.03
-    isArm = isAarch32;
-  };
-
-  matchAnyAttrs = patterns:
-    if builtins.isList patterns then attrs: any (pattern: matchAttrs pattern attrs) patterns
-    else matchAttrs patterns;
-
-  predicates = mapAttrs (_: matchAnyAttrs) patterns;
-}

lib/systems/parse.nix

@@ -1,299 +0,0 @@
-# Define the list of system with their properties.
-#
-# See https://clang.llvm.org/docs/CrossCompilation.html and
-# http://llvm.org/docs/doxygen/html/Triple_8cpp_source.html especially
-# Triple::normalize. Parsing should essentially act as a more conservative
-# version of that last function.
-#
-# Most of the types below come in "open" and "closed" pairs. The open ones
-# specify what information we need to know about systems in general, and the
-# closed ones are sub-types representing the whitelist of systems we support in
-# practice.
-#
-# Code in the remainder of nixpkgs shouldn't rely on the closed ones in
-# e.g. exhaustive cases. Its more a sanity check to make sure nobody defines
-# systems that overlap with existing ones and won't notice something amiss.
-#
-{ lib }:
-with lib.lists;
-with lib.types;
-with lib.attrsets;
-with (import ./inspect.nix { inherit lib; }).predicates;
-
-let
-  inherit (lib.options) mergeOneOption;
-
-  setTypes = type:
-    mapAttrs (name: value:
-      assert type.check value;
-      setType type.name ({ inherit name; } // value));
-
-in
-
-rec {
-
-  ################################################################################
-
-  types.openSignifiantByte = mkOptionType {
-    name = "significant-byte";
-    description = "Endianness";
-    merge = mergeOneOption;
-  };
-
-  types.significantByte = enum (attrValues significantBytes);
-
-  significantBytes = setTypes types.openSignifiantByte {
-    bigEndian = {};
-    littleEndian = {};
-  };
-
-  ################################################################################
-
-  # Reasonable power of 2
-  types.bitWidth = enum [ 8 16 32 64 128 ];
-
-  ################################################################################
-
-  types.openCpuType = mkOptionType {
-    name = "cpu-type";
-    description = "instruction set architecture name and information";
-    merge = mergeOneOption;
-    check = x: types.bitWidth.check x.bits
-      && (if 8 < x.bits
-          then types.significantByte.check x.significantByte
-          else !(x ? significantByte));
-  };
-
-  types.cpuType = enum (attrValues cpuTypes);
-
-  cpuTypes = with significantBytes; setTypes types.openCpuType {
-    arm      = { bits = 32; significantByte = littleEndian; family = "arm"; };
-    armv5tel = { bits = 32; significantByte = littleEndian; family = "arm"; version = "5"; };
-    armv6m   = { bits = 32; significantByte = littleEndian; family = "arm"; version = "6"; };
-    armv6l   = { bits = 32; significantByte = littleEndian; family = "arm"; version = "6"; };
-    armv7a   = { bits = 32; significantByte = littleEndian; family = "arm"; version = "7"; };
-    armv7r   = { bits = 32; significantByte = littleEndian; family = "arm"; version = "7"; };
-    armv7m   = { bits = 32; significantByte = littleEndian; family = "arm"; version = "7"; };
-    armv7l   = { bits = 32; significantByte = littleEndian; family = "arm"; version = "7"; };
-    armv8a   = { bits = 32; significantByte = littleEndian; family = "arm"; version = "8"; };
-    armv8r   = { bits = 32; significantByte = littleEndian; family = "arm"; version = "8"; };
-    armv8m   = { bits = 32; significantByte = littleEndian; family = "arm"; version = "8"; };
-    aarch64  = { bits = 64; significantByte = littleEndian; family = "arm"; version = "8"; };
-
-    i686     = { bits = 32; significantByte = littleEndian; family = "x86"; };
-    x86_64   = { bits = 64; significantByte = littleEndian; family = "x86"; };
-
-    mips     = { bits = 32; significantByte = bigEndian;    family = "mips"; };
-    mipsel   = { bits = 32; significantByte = littleEndian; family = "mips"; };
-    mips64   = { bits = 64; significantByte = bigEndian;    family = "mips"; };
-    mips64el = { bits = 64; significantByte = littleEndian; family = "mips"; };
-
-    powerpc  = { bits = 32; significantByte = bigEndian;    family = "power"; };
-
-    riscv32  = { bits = 32; significantByte = littleEndian; family = "riscv"; };
-    riscv64  = { bits = 64; significantByte = littleEndian; family = "riscv"; };
-
-    wasm32   = { bits = 32; significantByte = littleEndian; family = "wasm"; };
-    wasm64   = { bits = 64; significantByte = littleEndian; family = "wasm"; };
-  };
-
-  ################################################################################
-
-  types.openVendor = mkOptionType {
-    name = "vendor";
-    description = "vendor for the platform";
-    merge = mergeOneOption;
-  };
-
-  types.vendor = enum (attrValues vendors);
-
-  vendors = setTypes types.openVendor {
-    apple = {};
-    pc = {};
-
-    unknown = {};
-  };
-
-  ################################################################################
-
-  types.openExecFormat = mkOptionType {
-    name = "exec-format";
-    description = "executable container used by the kernel";
-    merge = mergeOneOption;
-  };
-
-  types.execFormat = enum (attrValues execFormats);
-
-  execFormats = setTypes types.openExecFormat {
-    aout = {}; # a.out
-    elf = {};
-    macho = {};
-    pe = {};
-
-    unknown = {};
-  };
-
-  ################################################################################
-
-  types.openKernelFamily = mkOptionType {
-    name = "exec-format";
-    description = "executable container used by the kernel";
-    merge = mergeOneOption;
-  };
-
-  types.kernelFamily = enum (attrValues kernelFamilies);
-
-  kernelFamilies = setTypes types.openKernelFamily {
-    bsd = {};
-  };
-
-  ################################################################################
-
-  types.openKernel = mkOptionType {
-    name = "kernel";
-    description = "kernel name and information";
-    merge = mergeOneOption;
-    check = x: types.execFormat.check x.execFormat
-        && all types.kernelFamily.check (attrValues x.families);
-  };
-
-  types.kernel = enum (attrValues kernels);
-
-  kernels = with execFormats; with kernelFamilies; setTypes types.openKernel {
-    darwin  = { execFormat = macho;   families = { }; };
-    freebsd = { execFormat = elf;     families = { inherit bsd; }; };
-    hurd    = { execFormat = elf;     families = { }; };
-    linux   = { execFormat = elf;     families = { }; };
-    netbsd  = { execFormat = elf;     families = { inherit bsd; }; };
-    none    = { execFormat = unknown; families = { }; };
-    openbsd = { execFormat = elf;     families = { inherit bsd; }; };
-    solaris = { execFormat = elf;     families = { }; };
-    windows = { execFormat = pe;      families = { }; };
-  } // { # aliases
-    # TODO(@Ericson2314): Handle these Darwin version suffixes more generally.
-    darwin10 = kernels.darwin;
-    darwin14 = kernels.darwin;
-    win32 = kernels.windows;
-  };
-
-  ################################################################################
-
-  types.openAbi = mkOptionType {
-    name = "abi";
-    description = "binary interface for compiled code and syscalls";
-    merge = mergeOneOption;
-  };
-
-  types.abi = enum (attrValues abis);
-
-  abis = setTypes types.openAbi {
-    cygnus       = {};
-    msvc         = {};
-    eabi         = {};
-
-    androideabi  = {};
-    android      = {};
-
-    gnueabi      = { float = "soft"; };
-    gnueabihf    = { float = "hard"; };
-    gnu          = {};
-
-    musleabi     = { float = "soft"; };
-    musleabihf   = { float = "hard"; };
-    musl         = {};
-
-    uclibceabihf = { float = "soft"; };
-    uclibceabi   = { float = "hard"; };
-    uclibc       = {};
-
-    unknown = {};
-  };
-
-  ################################################################################
-
-  types.system = mkOptionType {
-    name = "system";
-    description = "fully parsed representation of llvm- or nix-style platform tuple";
-    merge = mergeOneOption;
-    check = { cpu, vendor, kernel, abi }:
-           types.cpuType.check cpu
-        && types.vendor.check vendor
-        && types.kernel.check kernel
-        && types.abi.check abi;
-  };
-
-  isSystem = isType "system";
-
-  mkSystem = components:
-    assert types.system.check components;
-    setType "system" components;
-
-  mkSkeletonFromList = l: {
-    "2" = # We only do 2-part hacks for things Nix already supports
-      if elemAt l 1 == "cygwin"
-        then { cpu = elemAt l 0;                      kernel = "windows";  abi = "cygnus";   }
-      else if elemAt l 1 == "gnu"
-        then { cpu = elemAt l 0;                      kernel = "hurd";     abi = "gnu";      }
-      else   { cpu = elemAt l 0;                      kernel = elemAt l 1;                   };
-    "3" = # Awkwards hacks, beware!
-      if elemAt l 1 == "apple"
-        then { cpu = elemAt l 0; vendor = "apple";    kernel = elemAt l 2;                   }
-      else if (elemAt l 1 == "linux") || (elemAt l 2 == "gnu")
-        then { cpu = elemAt l 0;                      kernel = elemAt l 1; abi = elemAt l 2; }
-      else if (elemAt l 2 == "mingw32") # autotools breaks on -gnu for window
-        then { cpu = elemAt l 0; vendor = elemAt l 1; kernel = "windows";  abi = "gnu"; }
-      else throw "Target specification with 3 components is ambiguous";
-    "4" =    { cpu = elemAt l 0; vendor = elemAt l 1; kernel = elemAt l 2; abi = elemAt l 3; };
-  }.${toString (length l)}
-    or (throw "system string has invalid number of hyphen-separated components");
-
-  # This should revert the job done by config.guess from the gcc compiler.
-  mkSystemFromSkeleton = { cpu
-                         , # Optional, but fallback too complex for here.
-                           # Inferred below instead.
-                           vendor ? assert false; null
-                         , kernel
-                         , # Also inferred below
-                           abi    ? assert false; null
-                         } @ args: let
-    getCpu    = name: cpuTypes.${name} or (throw "Unknown CPU type: ${name}");
-    getVendor = name:  vendors.${name} or (throw "Unknown vendor: ${name}");
-    getKernel = name:  kernels.${name} or (throw "Unknown kernel: ${name}");
-    getAbi    = name:     abis.${name} or (throw "Unknown ABI: ${name}");
-
-    parsed = rec {
-      cpu = getCpu args.cpu;
-      vendor =
-        /**/ if args ? vendor    then getVendor args.vendor
-        else if isDarwin  parsed then vendors.apple
-        else if isWindows parsed then vendors.pc
-        else                     vendors.unknown;
-      kernel = getKernel args.kernel;
-      abi =
-        /**/ if args ? abi       then getAbi args.abi
-        else if isLinux   parsed then
-          if isAarch32 parsed then
-            if lib.versionAtLeast (parsed.cpu.version or "0") "6"
-            then abis.gnueabihf
-            else abis.gnueabi
-          else abis.gnu
-        else if isWindows parsed then abis.gnu
-        else                     abis.unknown;
-    };
-
-  in mkSystem parsed;
-
-  mkSystemFromString = s: mkSystemFromSkeleton (mkSkeletonFromList (lib.splitString "-" s));
-
-  doubleFromSystem = { cpu, vendor, kernel, abi, ... }:
-    if abi == abis.cygnus
-    then "${cpu.name}-cygwin"
-    else "${cpu.name}-${kernel.name}";
-
-  tripleFromSystem = { cpu, vendor, kernel, abi, ... } @ sys: assert isSystem sys; let
-    optAbi = lib.optionalString (abi != abis.unknown) "-${abi.name}";
-  in "${cpu.name}-${vendor.name}-${kernel.name}${optAbi}";
-
-  ################################################################################
-
-}

lib/systems/platforms.nix

@@ -1,604 +0,0 @@
-{ lib }:
-rec {
-  pcBase = {
-    name = "pc";
-    kernelBaseConfig = "defconfig";
-    # Build whatever possible as a module, if not stated in the extra config.
-    kernelAutoModules = true;
-    kernelTarget = "bzImage";
-  };
-
-  pc64 = pcBase // { kernelArch = "x86_64"; };
-
-  pc32 = pcBase // { kernelArch = "i386"; };
-
-  pc32_simplekernel = pc32 // {
-    kernelAutoModules = false;
-  };
-
-  pc64_simplekernel = pc64 // {
-    kernelAutoModules = false;
-  };
-
-  ##
-  ## ARM
-  ##
-
-  pogoplug4 = {
-    name = "pogoplug4";
-
-    gcc = {
-      arch = "armv5te";
-    };
-
-    kernelMajor = "2.6";
-    kernelBaseConfig = "multi_v5_defconfig";
-    kernelArch = "arm";
-    kernelAutoModules = false;
-    kernelExtraConfig =
-      ''
-        # Ubi for the mtd
-        MTD_UBI y
-        UBIFS_FS y
-        UBIFS_FS_XATTR y
-        UBIFS_FS_ADVANCED_COMPR y
-        UBIFS_FS_LZO y
-        UBIFS_FS_ZLIB y
-        UBIFS_FS_DEBUG n
-      '';
-    kernelMakeFlags = [ "LOADADDR=0x8000" ];
-    kernelTarget = "uImage";
-    # TODO reenable once manual-config's config actually builds a .dtb and this is checked to be working
-    #kernelDTB = true;
-  };
-
-  sheevaplug = {
-    name = "sheevaplug";
-    kernelMajor = "2.6";
-    kernelBaseConfig = "multi_v5_defconfig";
-    kernelArch = "arm";
-    kernelAutoModules = false;
-    kernelExtraConfig = ''
-      BLK_DEV_RAM y
-      BLK_DEV_INITRD y
-      BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP m
-      BLK_DEV_DM m
-      DM_CRYPT m
-      MD y
-      REISERFS_FS m
-      BTRFS_FS m
-      XFS_FS m
-      JFS_FS m
-      EXT4_FS m
-      USB_STORAGE_CYPRESS_ATACB m
-
-      # mv cesa requires this sw fallback, for mv-sha1
-      CRYPTO_SHA1 y
-      # Fast crypto
-      CRYPTO_TWOFISH y
-      CRYPTO_TWOFISH_COMMON y
-      CRYPTO_BLOWFISH y
-      CRYPTO_BLOWFISH_COMMON y
-
-      IP_PNP y
-      IP_PNP_DHCP y
-      NFS_FS y
-      ROOT_NFS y
-      TUN m
-      NFS_V4 y
-      NFS_V4_1 y
-      NFS_FSCACHE y
-      NFSD m
-      NFSD_V2_ACL y
-      NFSD_V3 y
-      NFSD_V3_ACL y
-      NFSD_V4 y
-      NETFILTER y
-      IP_NF_IPTABLES y
-      IP_NF_FILTER y
-      IP_NF_MATCH_ADDRTYPE y
-      IP_NF_TARGET_LOG y
-      IP_NF_MANGLE y
-      IPV6 m
-      VLAN_8021Q m
-
-      CIFS y
-      CIFS_XATTR y
-      CIFS_POSIX y
-      CIFS_FSCACHE y
-      CIFS_ACL y
-
-      WATCHDOG y
-      WATCHDOG_CORE y
-      ORION_WATCHDOG m
-
-      ZRAM m
-      NETCONSOLE m
-
-      # Disable OABI to have seccomp_filter (required for systemd)
-      # https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/651
-      OABI_COMPAT n
-
-      # Fail to build
-      DRM n
-      SCSI_ADVANSYS n
-      USB_ISP1362_HCD n
-      SND_SOC n
-      SND_ALI5451 n
-      FB_SAVAGE n
-      SCSI_NSP32 n
-      ATA_SFF n
-      SUNGEM n
-      IRDA n
-      ATM_HE n
-      SCSI_ACARD n
-      BLK_DEV_CMD640_ENHANCED n
-
-      FUSE_FS m
-
-      # systemd uses cgroups
-      CGROUPS y
-
-      # Latencytop
-      LATENCYTOP y
-
-      # Ubi for the mtd
-      MTD_UBI y
-      UBIFS_FS y
-      UBIFS_FS_XATTR y
-      UBIFS_FS_ADVANCED_COMPR y
-      UBIFS_FS_LZO y
-      UBIFS_FS_ZLIB y
-      UBIFS_FS_DEBUG n
-
-      # Kdb, for kernel troubles
-      KGDB y
-      KGDB_SERIAL_CONSOLE y
-      KGDB_KDB y
-    '';
-    kernelMakeFlags = [ "LOADADDR=0x0200000" ];
-    kernelTarget = "uImage";
-    kernelDTB = true; # Beyond 3.10
-    gcc = {
-      arch = "armv5te";
-    };
-  };
-
-  raspberrypi = {
-    name = "raspberrypi";
-    kernelMajor = "2.6";
-    kernelBaseConfig = "bcmrpi_defconfig";
-    kernelDTB = true;
-    kernelArch = "arm";
-    kernelAutoModules = false;
-    kernelExtraConfig = ''
-      BLK_DEV_RAM y
-      BLK_DEV_INITRD y
-      BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP m
-      BLK_DEV_DM m
-      DM_CRYPT m
-      MD y
-      REISERFS_FS m
-      BTRFS_FS y
-      XFS_FS m
-      JFS_FS y
-      EXT4_FS y
-
-      IP_PNP y
-      IP_PNP_DHCP y
-      NFS_FS y
-      ROOT_NFS y
-      TUN m
-      NFS_V4 y
-      NFS_V4_1 y
-      NFS_FSCACHE y
-      NFSD m
-      NFSD_V2_ACL y
-      NFSD_V3 y
-      NFSD_V3_ACL y
-      NFSD_V4 y
-      NETFILTER y
-      IP_NF_IPTABLES y
-      IP_NF_FILTER y
-      IP_NF_MATCH_ADDRTYPE y
-      IP_NF_TARGET_LOG y
-      IP_NF_MANGLE y
-      IPV6 m
-      VLAN_8021Q m
-
-      CIFS y
-      CIFS_XATTR y
-      CIFS_POSIX y
-      CIFS_FSCACHE y
-      CIFS_ACL y
-
-      ZRAM m
-
-      # Disable OABI to have seccomp_filter (required for systemd)
-      # https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/651
-      OABI_COMPAT n
-
-      # Fail to build
-      DRM n
-      SCSI_ADVANSYS n
-      USB_ISP1362_HCD n
-      SND_SOC n
-      SND_ALI5451 n
-      FB_SAVAGE n
-      SCSI_NSP32 n
-      ATA_SFF n
-      SUNGEM n
-      IRDA n
-      ATM_HE n
-      SCSI_ACARD n
-      BLK_DEV_CMD640_ENHANCED n
-
-      FUSE_FS m
-
-      # nixos mounts some cgroup
-      CGROUPS y
-
-      # Latencytop
-      LATENCYTOP y
-    '';
-    kernelTarget = "zImage";
-    gcc = {
-      arch = "armv6";
-      fpu = "vfp";
-      # TODO(@Ericson2314) what is this and is it a good idea? It was
-      # used in some cross compilation examples but not others.
-      #
-      # abi = "aapcs-linux";
-    };
-  };
-
-  raspberrypi2 = armv7l-hf-multiplatform // {
-    name = "raspberrypi2";
-    kernelBaseConfig = "bcm2709_defconfig";
-    kernelDTB = true;
-    kernelAutoModules = false;
-    kernelExtraConfig = ''
-      BLK_DEV_RAM y
-      BLK_DEV_INITRD y
-      BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP m
-      BLK_DEV_DM m
-      DM_CRYPT m
-      MD y
-      REISERFS_FS m
-      BTRFS_FS y
-      XFS_FS m
-      JFS_FS y
-      EXT4_FS y
-
-      IP_PNP y
-      IP_PNP_DHCP y
-      NFS_FS y
-      ROOT_NFS y
-      TUN m
-      NFS_V4 y
-      NFS_V4_1 y
-      NFS_FSCACHE y
-      NFSD m
-      NFSD_V2_ACL y
-      NFSD_V3 y
-      NFSD_V3_ACL y
-      NFSD_V4 y
-      NETFILTER y
-      IP_NF_IPTABLES y
-      IP_NF_FILTER y
-      IP_NF_MATCH_ADDRTYPE y
-      IP_NF_TARGET_LOG y
-      IP_NF_MANGLE y
-      IPV6 m
-      VLAN_8021Q m
-
-      CIFS y
-      CIFS_XATTR y
-      CIFS_POSIX y
-      CIFS_FSCACHE y
-      CIFS_ACL y
-
-      ZRAM m
-
-      # Disable OABI to have seccomp_filter (required for systemd)
-      # https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/651
-      OABI_COMPAT n
-
-      # Fail to build
-      DRM n
-      SCSI_ADVANSYS n
-      USB_ISP1362_HCD n
-      SND_SOC n
-      SND_ALI5451 n
-      FB_SAVAGE n
-      SCSI_NSP32 n
-      ATA_SFF n
-      SUNGEM n
-      IRDA n
-      ATM_HE n
-      SCSI_ACARD n
-      BLK_DEV_CMD640_ENHANCED n
-
-      FUSE_FS m
-
-      # nixos mounts some cgroup
-      CGROUPS y
-
-      # Latencytop
-      LATENCYTOP y
-
-      # Disable the common config Xen, it doesn't build on ARM
-      XEN? n
-    '';
-    kernelTarget = "zImage";
-  };
-
-  scaleway-c1 = armv7l-hf-multiplatform // {
-    gcc = {
-      cpu = "cortex-a9";
-      fpu = "vfpv3";
-    };
-  };
-
-  utilite = {
-    name = "utilite";
-    kernelMajor = "2.6";
-    kernelBaseConfig = "multi_v7_defconfig";
-    kernelArch = "arm";
-    kernelAutoModules = false;
-    kernelExtraConfig =
-      ''
-        # Ubi for the mtd
-        MTD_UBI y
-        UBIFS_FS y
-        UBIFS_FS_XATTR y
-        UBIFS_FS_ADVANCED_COMPR y
-        UBIFS_FS_LZO y
-        UBIFS_FS_ZLIB y
-        UBIFS_FS_DEBUG n
-      '';
-    kernelMakeFlags = [ "LOADADDR=0x10800000" ];
-    kernelTarget = "uImage";
-    kernelDTB = true;
-    gcc = {
-      cpu = "cortex-a9";
-      fpu = "neon";
-    };
-  };
-
-  guruplug = sheevaplug // {
-    # Define `CONFIG_MACH_GURUPLUG' (see
-    # <http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git-commits-head/2010/5/19/33618>)
-    # and other GuruPlug-specific things.  Requires the `guruplug-defconfig'
-    # patch.
-
-    kernelBaseConfig = "guruplug_defconfig";
-  };
-
-  beaglebone = armv7l-hf-multiplatform // {
-    name = "beaglebone";
-    kernelBaseConfig = "bb.org_defconfig";
-    kernelAutoModules = false;
-    kernelExtraConfig = ""; # TBD kernel config
-    kernelTarget = "zImage";
-  };
-
-  # https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/abis#armeabi
-  armv5te-android = {
-    name = "armeabi";
-    gcc = {
-      arch = "armv5te";
-      float = "soft";
-      float-abi = "soft";
-    };
-  };
-
-  # https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/abis#v7a
-  armv7a-android =  {
-    name = "armeabi-v7a";
-    gcc = {
-      arch = "armv7-a";
-      float = "hard";
-      float-abi = "softfp";
-      fpu = "vfpv3-d16";
-    };
-  };
-
-  armv7l-hf-multiplatform = {
-    name = "armv7l-hf-multiplatform";
-    kernelMajor = "2.6"; # Using "2.6" enables 2.6 kernel syscalls in glibc.
-    kernelBaseConfig = "multi_v7_defconfig";
-    kernelArch = "arm";
-    kernelDTB = true;
-    kernelAutoModules = true;
-    kernelPreferBuiltin = true;
-    kernelTarget = "zImage";
-    kernelExtraConfig = ''
-      # Serial port for Raspberry Pi 3. Upstream forgot to add it to the ARMv7 defconfig.
-      SERIAL_8250_BCM2835AUX y
-      SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED y
-      SERIAL_8250_SHARE_IRQ y
-
-      # Fix broken sunxi-sid nvmem driver.
-      TI_CPTS y
-
-      # Hangs ODROID-XU4
-      ARM_BIG_LITTLE_CPUIDLE n
-    '';
-    gcc = {
-      # Some table about fpu flags:
-      # http://community.arm.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-1981-3827/blogentry-103749-004812900+1365712953_thumb.png
-      # Cortex-A5: -mfpu=neon-fp16
-      # Cortex-A7 (rpi2): -mfpu=neon-vfpv4
-      # Cortex-A8 (beaglebone): -mfpu=neon
-      # Cortex-A9: -mfpu=neon-fp16
-      # Cortex-A15: -mfpu=neon-vfpv4
-
-      # More about FPU:
-      # https://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatPort/VfpComparison
-
-      # vfpv3-d16 is what Debian uses and seems to be the best compromise: NEON is not supported in e.g. Scaleway or Tegra 2,
-      # and the above page suggests NEON is only an improvement with hand-written assembly.
-      arch = "armv7-a";
-      fpu = "vfpv3-d16";
-
-      # For Raspberry Pi the 2 the best would be:
-      #   cpu = "cortex-a7";
-      #   fpu = "neon-vfpv4";
-    };
-  };
-
-  aarch64-multiplatform = {
-    name = "aarch64-multiplatform";
-    kernelMajor = "2.6"; # Using "2.6" enables 2.6 kernel syscalls in glibc.
-    kernelBaseConfig = "defconfig";
-    kernelArch = "arm64";
-    kernelDTB = true;
-    kernelAutoModules = true;
-    kernelPreferBuiltin = true;
-    kernelExtraConfig = ''
-      # Raspberry Pi 3 stuff. Not needed for kernels >= 4.10.
-      ARCH_BCM2835 y
-      BCM2835_MBOX y
-      BCM2835_WDT y
-      RASPBERRYPI_FIRMWARE y
-      RASPBERRYPI_POWER y
-      SERIAL_8250_BCM2835AUX y
-      SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED y
-      SERIAL_8250_SHARE_IRQ y
-
-      # Cavium ThunderX stuff.
-      PCI_HOST_THUNDER_ECAM y
-
-      # Nvidia Tegra stuff.
-      PCI_TEGRA y
-
-      # The default (=y) forces us to have the XHCI firmware available in initrd,
-      # which our initrd builder can't currently do easily.
-      USB_XHCI_TEGRA m
-    '';
-    kernelTarget = "Image";
-    gcc = {
-      arch = "armv8-a";
-    };
-  };
-
-  ##
-  ## MIPS
-  ##
-
-  ben_nanonote = {
-    name = "ben_nanonote";
-    kernelMajor = "2.6";
-    kernelArch = "mips";
-    gcc = {
-      arch = "mips32";
-      float = "soft";
-    };
-  };
-
-  fuloong2f_n32 = {
-    name = "fuloong2f_n32";
-    kernelMajor = "2.6";
-    kernelBaseConfig = "lemote2f_defconfig";
-    kernelArch = "mips";
-    kernelAutoModules = false;
-    kernelExtraConfig = ''
-      MIGRATION n
-      COMPACTION n
-
-      # nixos mounts some cgroup
-      CGROUPS y
-
-      BLK_DEV_RAM y
-      BLK_DEV_INITRD y
-      BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP m
-      BLK_DEV_DM m
-      DM_CRYPT m
-      MD y
-      REISERFS_FS m
-      EXT4_FS m
-      USB_STORAGE_CYPRESS_ATACB m
-
-      IP_PNP y
-      IP_PNP_DHCP y
-      IP_PNP_BOOTP y
-      NFS_FS y
-      ROOT_NFS y
-      TUN m
-      NFS_V4 y
-      NFS_V4_1 y
-      NFS_FSCACHE y
-      NFSD m
-      NFSD_V2_ACL y
-      NFSD_V3 y
-      NFSD_V3_ACL y
-      NFSD_V4 y
-
-      # Fail to build
-      DRM n
-      SCSI_ADVANSYS n
-      USB_ISP1362_HCD n
-      SND_SOC n
-      SND_ALI5451 n
-      FB_SAVAGE n
-      SCSI_NSP32 n
-      ATA_SFF n
-      SUNGEM n
-      IRDA n
-      ATM_HE n
-      SCSI_ACARD n
-      BLK_DEV_CMD640_ENHANCED n
-
-      FUSE_FS m
-
-      # Needed for udev >= 150
-      SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 n
-
-      VGA_CONSOLE n
-      VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING y
-      SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE y
-      FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE y
-      EXT2_FS y
-      EXT3_FS y
-      REISERFS_FS y
-      MAGIC_SYSRQ y
-
-      # The kernel doesn't boot at all, with FTRACE
-      FTRACE n
-    '';
-    kernelTarget = "vmlinux";
-    gcc = {
-      arch = "loongson2f";
-      float = "hard";
-      abi = "n32";
-    };
-  };
-
-  ##
-  ## Other
-  ##
-
-  riscv-multiplatform = bits: {
-    name = "riscv-multiplatform";
-    kernelArch = "riscv";
-    bfdEmulation = "elf${bits}lriscv";
-    kernelTarget = "vmlinux";
-    kernelAutoModules = true;
-    kernelBaseConfig = "defconfig";
-    kernelExtraConfig = ''
-      FTRACE n
-      SERIAL_OF_PLATFORM y
-    '';
-  };
-
-  selectBySystem = system: {
-      "i686-linux" = pc32;
-      "x86_64-linux" = pc64;
-      "armv5tel-linux" = sheevaplug;
-      "armv6l-linux" = raspberrypi;
-      "armv7l-linux" = armv7l-hf-multiplatform;
-      "aarch64-linux" = aarch64-multiplatform;
-      "mipsel-linux" = fuloong2f_n32;
-    }.${system} or pcBase;
-}

lib/tests.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+let inherit (builtins) add; in
+with import ./default.nix;
+
+runTests {
+
+  testId = {
+    expr = id 1;
+    expected = 1;
+  };
+
+  testConst = {
+    expr = const 2 3;
+    expected = 2;
+  };
+
+  /*
+  testOr = {
+    expr = or true false;
+    expected = true;
+  };
+  */
+
+  testAnd = {
+    expr = and true false;
+    expected = false;
+  };
+
+  testFix = {
+    expr = fix (x: {a = if x ? a then "a" else "b";});
+    expected = {a = "a";};
+  };
+
+  testConcatMapStrings = {
+    expr = concatMapStrings (x: x + ";") ["a" "b" "c"];
+    expected = "a;b;c;";
+  };
+
+  testConcatStringsSep = {
+    expr = concatStringsSep "," ["a" "b" "c"];
+    expected = "a,b,c";
+  };
+
+  testFilter = {
+    expr = filter (x: x != "a") ["a" "b" "c" "a"];
+    expected = ["b" "c"];
+  };
+
+  testFold = {
+    expr = fold (builtins.add) 0 (range 0 100);
+    expected = 5050;
+  };
+
+  testTake = testAllTrue [
+    ([] == (take 0 [  1 2 3 ]))
+    ([1] == (take 1 [  1 2 3 ]))
+    ([ 1 2 ] == (take 2 [  1 2 3 ]))
+    ([ 1 2 3 ] == (take 3 [  1 2 3 ]))
+    ([ 1 2 3 ] == (take 4 [  1 2 3 ]))
+  ];
+
+  testFoldAttrs = {
+    expr = foldAttrs (n: a: [n] ++ a) [] [
+    { a = 2; b = 7; }
+    { a = 3;        c = 8; }
+    ];
+    expected = { a = [ 2 3 ]; b = [7]; c = [8];};
+  };
+
+  testOverridableDelayableArgsTest = {
+    expr =
+      let res1 = defaultOverridableDelayableArgs id {};
+          res2 = defaultOverridableDelayableArgs id { a = 7; };
+          res3 = let x = defaultOverridableDelayableArgs id { a = 7; };
+                 in (x.merge) { b = 10; };
+          res4 = let x = defaultOverridableDelayableArgs id { a = 7; };
+                in (x.merge) ( x: { b = 10; });
+          res5 = let x = defaultOverridableDelayableArgs id { a = 7; };
+                in (x.merge) ( x: { a = add x.a 3; });
+          res6 = let x = defaultOverridableDelayableArgs id { a = 7; mergeAttrBy = { a = add; }; };
+                     y = x.merge {};
+                in (y.merge) { a = 10; };
+
+          resRem7 = res6.replace (a : removeAttrs a ["a"]);
+
+          resReplace6 = let x = defaultOverridableDelayableArgs id { a = 7; mergeAttrBy = { a = add; }; };
+                            x2 = x.merge { a = 20; }; # now we have 27
+                        in (x2.replace) { a = 10; }; # and override the value by 10
+
+          # fixed tests (delayed args): (when using them add some comments, please)
+          resFixed1 =
+                let x = defaultOverridableDelayableArgs id ( x : { a = 7; c = x.fixed.b; });
+                    y = x.merge (x : { name = "name-${builtins.toString x.fixed.c}"; });
+                in (y.merge) { b = 10; };
+          strip = attrs : removeAttrs attrs ["merge" "replace"];
+      in all id
+        [ ((strip res1) == { })
+          ((strip res2) == { a = 7; })
+          ((strip res3) == { a = 7; b = 10; })
+          ((strip res4) == { a = 7; b = 10; })
+          ((strip res5) == { a = 10; })
+          ((strip res6) == { a = 17; })
+          ((strip resRem7) == {})
+          ((strip resFixed1) == { a = 7; b = 10; c =10; name = "name-10"; })
+        ];
+    expected = true;
+  };
+
+  testSort = {
+    expr = sort builtins.lessThan [ 40 2 30 42 ];
+    expected = [2 30 40 42];
+  };
+
+  testToIntShouldConvertStringToInt = {
+    expr = toInt "27";
+    expected = 27;
+  };
+
+  testToIntShouldThrowErrorIfItCouldNotConvertToInt = {
+    expr = builtins.tryEval (toInt "\"foo\"");
+    expected = { success = false; value = false; };
+  };
+
+  testHasAttrByPathTrue = {
+    expr = hasAttrByPath ["a" "b"] { a = { b = "yey"; }; };
+    expected = true;
+  };
+
+  testHasAttrByPathFalse = {
+    expr = hasAttrByPath ["a" "b"] { a = { c = "yey"; }; };
+    expected = false;
+  };
+
+}

lib/tests/misc.nix

@@ -1,361 +0,0 @@
-# to run these tests:
-# nix-instantiate --eval --strict nixpkgs/lib/tests/misc.nix
-# if the resulting list is empty, all tests passed
-with import ../default.nix;
-
-runTests {
-
-
-# TRIVIAL
-
-  testId = {
-    expr = id 1;
-    expected = 1;
-  };
-
-  testConst = {
-    expr = const 2 3;
-    expected = 2;
-  };
-
-  /*
-  testOr = {
-    expr = or true false;
-    expected = true;
-  };
-  */
-
-  testAnd = {
-    expr = and true false;
-    expected = false;
-  };
-
-  testFix = {
-    expr = fix (x: {a = if x ? a then "a" else "b";});
-    expected = {a = "a";};
-  };
-
-  testComposeExtensions = {
-    expr = let obj = makeExtensible (self: { foo = self.bar; });
-               f = self: super: { bar = false; baz = true; };
-               g = self: super: { bar = super.baz or false; };
-               f_o_g = composeExtensions f g;
-               composed = obj.extend f_o_g;
-           in composed.foo;
-    expected = true;
-  };
-
-# STRINGS
-
-  testConcatMapStrings = {
-    expr = concatMapStrings (x: x + ";") ["a" "b" "c"];
-    expected = "a;b;c;";
-  };
-
-  testConcatStringsSep = {
-    expr = concatStringsSep "," ["a" "b" "c"];
-    expected = "a,b,c";
-  };
-
-  testSplitStringsSimple = {
-    expr = strings.splitString "." "a.b.c.d";
-    expected = [ "a" "b" "c" "d" ];
-  };
-
-  testSplitStringsEmpty = {
-    expr = strings.splitString "." "a..b";
-    expected = [ "a" "" "b" ];
-  };
-
-  testSplitStringsOne = {
-    expr = strings.splitString ":" "a.b";
-    expected = [ "a.b" ];
-  };
-
-  testSplitStringsNone = {
-    expr = strings.splitString "." "";
-    expected = [ "" ];
-  };
-
-  testSplitStringsFirstEmpty = {
-    expr = strings.splitString "/" "/a/b/c";
-    expected = [ "" "a" "b" "c" ];
-  };
-
-  testSplitStringsLastEmpty = {
-    expr = strings.splitString ":" "2001:db8:0:0042::8a2e:370:";
-    expected = [ "2001" "db8" "0" "0042" "" "8a2e" "370" "" ];
-  };
-
-  testIsStorePath =  {
-    expr =
-      let goodPath =
-            "${builtins.storeDir}/d945ibfx9x185xf04b890y4f9g3cbb63-python-2.7.11";
-      in {
-        storePath = isStorePath goodPath;
-        storePathAppendix = isStorePath
-          "${goodPath}/bin/python";
-        nonAbsolute = isStorePath (concatStrings (tail (stringToCharacters goodPath)));
-        asPath = isStorePath (builtins.toPath goodPath);
-        otherPath = isStorePath "/something/else";
-        otherVals = {
-          attrset = isStorePath {};
-          list = isStorePath [];
-          int = isStorePath 42;
-        };
-      };
-    expected = {
-      storePath = true;
-      storePathAppendix = false;
-      nonAbsolute = false;
-      asPath = true;
-      otherPath = false;
-      otherVals = {
-        attrset = false;
-        list = false;
-        int = false;
-      };
-    };
-  };
-
-# LISTS
-
-  testFilter = {
-    expr = filter (x: x != "a") ["a" "b" "c" "a"];
-    expected = ["b" "c"];
-  };
-
-  testFold =
-    let
-      f = op: fold: fold op 0 (range 0 100);
-      # fold with associative operator
-      assoc = f builtins.add;
-      # fold with non-associative operator
-      nonAssoc = f builtins.sub;
-    in {
-      expr = {
-        assocRight = assoc foldr;
-        # right fold with assoc operator is same as left fold
-        assocRightIsLeft = assoc foldr == assoc foldl;
-        nonAssocRight = nonAssoc foldr;
-        nonAssocLeft = nonAssoc foldl;
-        # with non-assoc operator the fold results are not the same
-        nonAssocRightIsNotLeft = nonAssoc foldl != nonAssoc foldr;
-        # fold is an alias for foldr
-        foldIsRight = nonAssoc fold == nonAssoc foldr;
-      };
-      expected = {
-        assocRight = 5050;
-        assocRightIsLeft = true;
-        nonAssocRight = 50;
-        nonAssocLeft = (-5050);
-        nonAssocRightIsNotLeft = true;
-        foldIsRight = true;
-      };
-    };
-
-  testTake = testAllTrue [
-    ([] == (take 0 [  1 2 3 ]))
-    ([1] == (take 1 [  1 2 3 ]))
-    ([ 1 2 ] == (take 2 [  1 2 3 ]))
-    ([ 1 2 3 ] == (take 3 [  1 2 3 ]))
-    ([ 1 2 3 ] == (take 4 [  1 2 3 ]))
-  ];
-
-  testFoldAttrs = {
-    expr = foldAttrs (n: a: [n] ++ a) [] [
-    { a = 2; b = 7; }
-    { a = 3;        c = 8; }
-    ];
-    expected = { a = [ 2 3 ]; b = [7]; c = [8];};
-  };
-
-  testSort = {
-    expr = sort builtins.lessThan [ 40 2 30 42 ];
-    expected = [2 30 40 42];
-  };
-
-  testToIntShouldConvertStringToInt = {
-    expr = toInt "27";
-    expected = 27;
-  };
-
-  testToIntShouldThrowErrorIfItCouldNotConvertToInt = {
-    expr = builtins.tryEval (toInt "\"foo\"");
-    expected = { success = false; value = false; };
-  };
-
-  testHasAttrByPathTrue = {
-    expr = hasAttrByPath ["a" "b"] { a = { b = "yey"; }; };
-    expected = true;
-  };
-
-  testHasAttrByPathFalse = {
-    expr = hasAttrByPath ["a" "b"] { a = { c = "yey"; }; };
-    expected = false;
-  };
-
-
-# GENERATORS
-# these tests assume attributes are converted to lists
-# in alphabetical order
-
-  testMkKeyValueDefault = {
-    expr = generators.mkKeyValueDefault {} ":" "f:oo" "bar";
-    expected = ''f\:oo:bar'';
-  };
-
-  testToKeyValue = {
-    expr = generators.toKeyValue {} {
-      key = "value";
-      "other=key" = "baz";
-    };
-    expected = ''
-      key=value
-      other\=key=baz
-    '';
-  };
-
-  testToINIEmpty = {
-    expr = generators.toINI {} {};
-    expected = "";
-  };
-
-  testToINIEmptySection = {
-    expr = generators.toINI {} { foo = {}; bar = {}; };
-    expected = ''
-      [bar]
-
-      [foo]
-    '';
-  };
-
-  testToINIDefaultEscapes = {
-    expr = generators.toINI {} {
-      "no [ and ] allowed unescaped" = {
-        "and also no = in keys" = 42;
-      };
-    };
-    expected = ''
-      [no \[ and \] allowed unescaped]
-      and also no \= in keys=42
-    '';
-  };
-
-  testToINIDefaultFull = {
-    expr = generators.toINI {} {
-      "section 1" = {
-        attribute1 = 5;
-        x = "Me-se JarJar Binx";
-      };
-      "foo[]" = {
-        "he\\h=he" = "this is okay";
-      };
-    };
-    expected = ''
-      [foo\[\]]
-      he\h\=he=this is okay
-
-      [section 1]
-      attribute1=5
-      x=Me-se JarJar Binx
-    '';
-  };
-
-  /* right now only invocation check */
-  testToJSONSimple =
-    let val = {
-      foobar = [ "baz" 1 2 3 ];
-    };
-    in {
-      expr = generators.toJSON {} val;
-      # trivial implementation
-      expected = builtins.toJSON val;
-  };
-
-  /* right now only invocation check */
-  testToYAMLSimple =
-    let val = {
-      list = [ { one = 1; } { two = 2; } ];
-      all = 42;
-    };
-    in {
-      expr = generators.toYAML {} val;
-      # trivial implementation
-      expected = builtins.toJSON val;
-  };
-
-  testToPretty = {
-    expr = mapAttrs (const (generators.toPretty {})) rec {
-      int = 42;
-      bool = true;
-      string = "fnord";
-      null_ = null;
-      function = x: x;
-      functionArgs = { arg ? 4, foo }: arg;
-      list = [ 3 4 function [ false ] ];
-      attrs = { foo = null; "foo bar" = "baz"; };
-      drv = derivation { name = "test"; system = builtins.currentSystem; };
-    };
-    expected = rec {
-      int = "42";
-      bool = "true";
-      string = "\"fnord\"";
-      null_ = "null";
-      function = "<λ>";
-      functionArgs = "<λ:{(arg),foo}>";
-      list = "[ 3 4 ${function} [ false ] ]";
-      attrs = "{ \"foo\" = null; \"foo bar\" = \"baz\"; }";
-      drv = "<δ>";
-    };
-  };
-
-  testToPrettyAllowPrettyValues = {
-    expr = generators.toPretty { allowPrettyValues = true; }
-             { __pretty = v: "«" + v + "»"; val = "foo"; };
-    expected  = "«foo»";
-  };
-
-
-# MISC
-
-  testOverridableDelayableArgsTest = {
-    expr =
-      let res1 = defaultOverridableDelayableArgs id {};
-          res2 = defaultOverridableDelayableArgs id { a = 7; };
-          res3 = let x = defaultOverridableDelayableArgs id { a = 7; };
-                 in (x.merge) { b = 10; };
-          res4 = let x = defaultOverridableDelayableArgs id { a = 7; };
-                in (x.merge) ( x: { b = 10; });
-          res5 = let x = defaultOverridableDelayableArgs id { a = 7; };
-                in (x.merge) ( x: { a = builtins.add x.a 3; });
-          res6 = let x = defaultOverridableDelayableArgs id { a = 7; mergeAttrBy = { a = builtins.add; }; };
-                     y = x.merge {};
-                in (y.merge) { a = 10; };
-
-          resRem7 = res6.replace (a: removeAttrs a ["a"]);
-
-          resReplace6 = let x = defaultOverridableDelayableArgs id { a = 7; mergeAttrBy = { a = builtins.add; }; };
-                            x2 = x.merge { a = 20; }; # now we have 27
-                        in (x2.replace) { a = 10; }; # and override the value by 10
-
-          # fixed tests (delayed args): (when using them add some comments, please)
-          resFixed1 =
-                let x = defaultOverridableDelayableArgs id ( x: { a = 7; c = x.fixed.b; });
-                    y = x.merge (x: { name = "name-${builtins.toString x.fixed.c}"; });
-                in (y.merge) { b = 10; };
-          strip = attrs: removeAttrs attrs ["merge" "replace"];
-      in all id
-        [ ((strip res1) == { })
-          ((strip res2) == { a = 7; })
-          ((strip res3) == { a = 7; b = 10; })
-          ((strip res4) == { a = 7; b = 10; })
-          ((strip res5) == { a = 10; })
-          ((strip res6) == { a = 17; })
-          ((strip resRem7) == {})
-          ((strip resFixed1) == { a = 7; b = 10; c =10; name = "name-10"; })
-        ];
-    expected = true;
-  };
-
-}

lib/tests/modules.sh

@@ -61,16 +61,6 @@ checkConfigError() {
 checkConfigOutput "false" config.enable ./declare-enable.nix
 checkConfigError 'The option .* defined in .* does not exist.' config.enable ./define-enable.nix
 
-# Check integer types.
-# unsigned
-checkConfigOutput "42" config.value ./declare-int-unsigned-value.nix ./define-value-int-positive.nix
-checkConfigError 'The option value .* in .* is not of type.*unsigned integer.*' config.value ./declare-int-unsigned-value.nix ./define-value-int-negative.nix
-# positive
-checkConfigError 'The option value .* in .* is not of type.*positive integer.*' config.value ./declare-int-positive-value.nix ./define-value-int-zero.nix
-# between
-checkConfigOutput "42" config.value ./declare-int-between-value.nix ./define-value-int-positive.nix
-checkConfigError 'The option value .* in .* is not of type.*between.*-21 and 43.*inclusive.*' config.value ./declare-int-between-value.nix ./define-value-int-negative.nix
-
 # Check mkForce without submodules.
 set -- config.enable ./declare-enable.nix ./define-enable.nix
 checkConfigOutput "true" "$@"
@@ -109,14 +99,6 @@ checkConfigOutput 'true' "$@" ./define-enable.nix ./define-loaOfSub-if-foo-enabl
 checkConfigOutput 'true' "$@" ./define-enable.nix ./define-loaOfSub-foo-if-enable.nix
 checkConfigOutput 'true' "$@" ./define-enable.nix ./define-loaOfSub-foo-enable-if.nix
 
-# Check disabledModules with config definitions and option declarations.
-set -- config.enable ./define-enable.nix ./declare-enable.nix
-checkConfigOutput "true" "$@"
-checkConfigOutput "false" "$@" ./disable-define-enable.nix
-checkConfigError "The option .*enable.* defined in .* does not exist" "$@" ./disable-declare-enable.nix
-checkConfigError "attribute .*enable.* in selection path .*config.enable.* not found" "$@" ./disable-define-enable.nix ./disable-declare-enable.nix
-checkConfigError "attribute .*enable.* in selection path .*config.enable.* not found" "$@" ./disable-enable-modules.nix
-
 # Check _module.args.
 set -- config.enable ./declare-enable.nix ./define-enable-with-custom-arg.nix
 checkConfigError 'while evaluating the module argument .*custom.* in .*define-enable-with-custom-arg.nix.*:' "$@"
@@ -133,17 +115,6 @@ set -- config.enable ./declare-enable.nix ./define-enable.nix ./define-loaOfSub-
 checkConfigError 'The option .* defined in .* does not exist.' "$@"
 checkConfigOutput "true" "$@" ./define-module-check.nix
 
-# Check coerced value.
-checkConfigOutput "\"42\"" config.value ./declare-coerced-value.nix
-checkConfigOutput "\"24\"" config.value ./declare-coerced-value.nix ./define-value-string.nix
-checkConfigError 'The option value .* in .* is not.*string or signed integer.*' config.value ./declare-coerced-value.nix ./define-value-list.nix
-
-# Check loaOf with long list.
-checkConfigOutput "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10" config.result ./loaOf-with-long-list.nix
-
-# Check loaOf with many merges of lists.
-checkConfigOutput "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10" config.result ./loaOf-with-many-list-merges.nix
-
 cat <<EOF
 ====== module tests ======
 $pass Pass

lib/tests/modules/declare-coerced-value.nix

@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, ... }:
-
-{
-  options = {
-    value = lib.mkOption {
-      default = 42;
-      type = lib.types.coercedTo lib.types.int builtins.toString lib.types.str;
-    };
-  };
-}

lib/tests/modules/declare-int-between-value.nix

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, ... }:
-
-{
-  options = {
-    value = lib.mkOption {
-      type = lib.types.ints.between (-21) 43;
-    };
-  };
-}

lib/tests/modules/declare-int-positive-value.nix

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, ... }:
-
-{
-  options = {
-    value = lib.mkOption {
-      type = lib.types.ints.positive;
-    };
-  };
-}

lib/tests/modules/declare-int-unsigned-value.nix

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, ... }:
-
-{
-  options = {
-    value = lib.mkOption {
-      type = lib.types.ints.unsigned;
-    };
-  };
-}

lib/tests/modules/default.nix

@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-{ lib ? import ../.., modules ? [] }:
+{ lib ? import <nixpkgs/lib>, modules ? [] }:
 
 {
   inherit (lib.evalModules {
     inherit modules;
-    specialArgs.modulesPath = ./.;
   }) config options;
 }

lib/tests/modules/define-value-int-negative.nix

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-{
-  value = -23;
-}

lib/tests/modules/define-value-int-positive.nix

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-{
-  value = 42;
-}

lib/tests/modules/define-value-int-zero.nix

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-{
-  value = 0;
-}

lib/tests/modules/define-value-list.nix

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-{
-  value = [];
-}