Remove perl

[shlevy]

https://headcounter.org/hydra/jobset/iElectric/nix-without-perl

[shlevy]

@edolstra please merge this one, not the others. Still working on nix-perl package.

[shlevy]

Incorporates #1026 #1023 #1018 #997 #981

[shlevy]

@edolstra nix-perl added, ready to merge

[domenkozar]

Here's a Hydra jobset building this branch: https://headcounter.org/hydra/eval/330058 (debs/rpms fail to build, some tests fail)

[shlevy]

FYI NixOS/nixpkgs#17697 is relevant to the copy-closure and remote builds tests

[shlevy]

@domenkozar Can you use release-16.03 for the nixpkgs checkout? That's what nix master on hydra.nixos.org uses.

[domenkozar]

Done

[edolstra]

@shlevy One giant PR won't make things easier to review. I prefer the smaller ones.

[shlevy]

Can you review on the smaller ones then merge here once it's all OK? There were several non-trivial cleanups.

[copumpkin]

Is this basically done? What's left?

[domenkozar]

#1023 #981

[shlevy]

#1027

[copumpkin]

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[shlevy]

😁 whoops, the last 4 commits here aren't covered in the other PRs

[shlevy]

@edolstra Rebased on #1023. The nix-perl package added here is a good place to add the perl nix-copy-closure if you decide we should go that route.

[shlevy]

@edolstra rebased!

[domenkozar]

@edolstra & @shlevy thank you so much for this hard work! :D

[shlevy]

@edolstra ping

[edolstra]

Could nix-perl be changed into a "regular" CPAN-style Perl package? I.e. with a Makefile.PL (or build.PL) instead of a autoconf/automake build system. That would make dependency handling easier. (E.g. you can just say requires DBI;.) It will also allow it to be used in Nixpkgs using buildPerlPackage.

[shlevy]

I don't really know anything about that system, but I suppose so. The biggest question is whether we can pull in the dependency on the nix libs and do the nix-instantiate calls to pull out the nix config from config.nix

[shlevy]

@edolstra Any thoughts on this?

[zimbatm]

Is that the last blocker for the 1.12 release?

[shlevy]

FWIW, I don't think making nix-perl a CPAN package should be a blocker here. As things currently stand nix-perl can be built using standard autoconf tooling.

[zimbatm]

Agreed, this is already an improvement. One thing at a time :)

Can you rebase to resolve the merge conflicts?

[shlevy]

Once I get approval otherwise, yep! Or I'll just merge it and resolve during the merge.

[edolstra]

Tabs.

[shlevy]

Fixed

[copumpkin]

\o/ \o/ \o/

[zimbatm]

Wooot! Can we get a release now? ^_^

[tomberek]

1.11.16 still has a perl dependency, is that correct? I'm trying boostrap from source into arm7l and eventually ran into this:

Can't locate Nix/Config.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Nix::Config module) (@INC contains: 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.2/arm-linux-gnueabihf-thread-multi-64int /usr/local/lib/perl5/si
te_perl/5.20.2/arm-linux-gnueabihf-thread-multi-64int /etc/perl /usr/lib/perl/site_perl/5.20.0/ /usr
/lib/perl/site_perl/5.20.0 /usr/lib/perl/vendor_perl/5.20.0/ /usr/lib/perl/vendor_perl/5.20.0 /usr/l
ib/perl/5.20.0/ /usr/lib/perl/5.20.0 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl/5.20.0 .) at ./nix-chann
el line 7.

[shlevy]

Yes, it's only 1.12