Re:My Experience with Nix on OS X
by davexunit on Monday May 30, 2016 @06:02PM
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The correct answer for Nix is to never link against a library provided by the system. Nix provides its own bootstrap binaries and it must be done that way for the sake of reproducibility.
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Re:My Experience with Nix on OS X
by CJefferson on Monday May 30, 2016 @06:14PM
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This is exactly what Nix does, but not all libraries are currently 'Nixified', and the ones which are aren't consistent.
Apple doesn't help this -- they want you to just install xcode and the most recent SDK and nothing else.
well, there's xcode-select to chose the SDK you want which kinda implies the availability of multiple – currently for example swift 2.2 and 3.0.
I'm tempted by the "1-environment" idea but homebrew has done such an excellent job in comparison to fink/port, I';; stay loyal. Also wondering if those two projects couldn't profit from some code sharing?