README: minor information improvements #7
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| Nix is an untyped language with no special Haskell integration, so error | |||
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| * No incremental compilation | |||
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By no incremental compilation, do you mean that Nix builds the Haskell project from scratch each time?
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Then maybe expand this to:
Nix cannot incrementally compile Haskell libraries
Note that you can still use Nix to provision a development environment and incrementally compile a Haskell package using
cabal. However, if you use Nix to build the package then Nix will build the package from scratch for every minor change. In theory, this could be fixed to have Nix directly support incremental Haskell builds but this has not been done yet.
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| * No Windows support | ||
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| Nix does not appear to work at all on Windows | ||
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| * Poor OS X support for stable releases | ||
| [There is hope for Windows 10](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/1038) |
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From reading the linked issue, does the newly added native Bash support on Windows fix the remaining problems with getting Windows working or are there still other remaining issues?
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Bash support mostly means POSIX, so even if there are some further issues I'm confident Nix can be supported on Windows.
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Could you then combine these two sentences to:
- No Windows support
Nix does not yet work on Windows but there is a very good chance that Nix can be ported to Windows soon
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| * No Windows support | ||
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| Nix does not appear to work at all on Windows | ||
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| * Poor OS X support for stable releases | ||
| [There is hope for Windows 10](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/1038) |
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Could you then combine these two sentences to:
- No Windows support
Nix does not yet work on Windows but there is a very good chance that Nix can be ported to Windows soon
| @@ -85,6 +88,11 @@ The main disadvantage of using Nix are: | |||
| Nix is an untyped language with no special Haskell integration, so error | |||
| messages are unhelpful | |||
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| * No incremental compilation | |||
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Then maybe expand this to:
Nix cannot incrementally compile Haskell libraries
Note that you can still use Nix to provision a development environment and incrementally compile a Haskell package using
cabal. However, if you use Nix to build the package then Nix will build the package from scratch for every minor change. In theory, this could be fixed to have Nix directly support incremental Haskell builds but this has not been done yet.
Let me know what you think about these @Gabriel439
Most of the disadvantages have "it depends", but I'm not sure if you think that's relevant for the tutorial. I think it's worth mentioning where to track the issue.