The biggest benefit is that we no longer have to update the registry
package. This means that just about any cargo package can be built by
nix. No longer does `cargo update` need to be feared because it will
update to packages newer then what is available in nixpkgs.
Instead of fetching the cargo registry this bundles all the source code
into a "vendor/" folder.
This also uses the new --frozen and --locked flags which is nice.
Currently cargo-vendor only provides binaries for Linux and
macOS 64-bit. This can be solved by building it for the other
architectures and uploading it somewhere (like the NixOS cache).
This also has the downside that it requires a change to everyone's deps
hash. And if the old one is used because it was cached it will fail to
build as it will attempt to use the old version. For this reason the
attribute has been renamed to `cargoSha256`.
Authors:
* Kevin Cox <kevincox@kevincox.ca>
* Jörg Thalheim <Mic92@users.noreply.github.com>
* zimbatm <zimbatm@zimbatm.com>
* master: (81 commits)
Add NixOS 17.09 AMIs
gradle: 4.2 -> 4.2.1
maintainers.nix: use my GitHub handle as maintainer name
fcitx-engines.rime: init at 0.3.2
brise: init at 2017-09-16
librime: init at 1.2.9
marisa: init at 0.2.4
opencc: build shared library and programs
josm: 12712 -> 12914
exa: 0.7.0 -> 0.8.0
krb5: add deprecation date for old configuration
rustRegistry: 2017-09-10 -> 2017-10-03
go-ethereum: Fix libusb segmentation faults on Darwin
tor-browser-bundle-bin: 7.0.5 -> 7.0.6
libsodium: 1.0.13 -> 1.0.15
tor-browser-bundle: geoip support
tor-browser-bundle: support transports obfs2,obfs3
tor-browser-bundle: bump https-everywhere to 2017.9.12
tint2: limit platforms to Linux since macOS is not supported and fails the tests
eclipse-plugin-vrapper: init at 0.72.0
...
emu-compatibility.com is now defunct and thus should not be in About menu.
Other minor changes:
* linkage-rwx-linux-elf.diff -> linkage-rwx-linux-elf.patch
* Mark some inputs as optional
* Do not build with Doxygen by default: it does not produce any outputs
* Do not build with OpenAL by default: SDL2 handles sound when present
* Do not build with FreeGLUT by default: deprecated at upstream
I use my own fork for NixOS development/testing, but `nixos-unstable`
for my system configuration.
Whenever I add a new plugin and I regenerate the expressions I need to
change the `NIX_PATH` variable to my own fork. As this is something I
tend to forget I think it's better to document this.
