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Re:What Is Nix? by Ericson2314 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @07:49PM (#23253391)
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/3185 please somebody throw github.com/volth or me money to finish this
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Re:What Is Nix? by Apaec on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @10:05PM (#23254173)
Would it be possible for you guys to team up and do an opencollective campaign for nix on windows?

The static-haskell-nix[1] project was successful with this approach.

Nix on Windows would be amazing!

[1]: https://opencollective.com/static-haskell-nix

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Re:What Is Nix? by Ericson2314 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @08:09AM (#23257415)
I cannot speak for Volth, but I am far more pressed for time than money, and largely paid to work on open source as it is, so it's not like that would be dramatically more fun than what I normally do or something.

Also I think in the short term this needs a burst of effort rather than trickle of paid maintenance costs: we're firmly in capex not opex territory.

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