[Ur] Nix-based Ur/Web building system

[Marco Maggesi]

Awesome!
I like both Nix and Ur/Web.
Thank you for your work!
Marco

2016-08-26 14:58 GMT+02:00 Sergey Mironov <grrwlf at gmail.com>:

> Hi. Recently I repaired and document a build system for Ur/Web
> applications called urweb-build. The goal of this project is to
> develop safe, reliable and scalable method of building Ur/Web
> applications and libraries.
>
> https://github.com/grwlf/urweb-build
>
> It is correct to think that urweb-build has properties of package
> manager, but in fact all the packaging functionality is derived from
> its dependencies: Git-Submodules and Nix (www.nixos.org/nix). The
> expression itself consists mainly of 300-lines long URP-file generator
> written in Nix expression language. With this expression installed,
> one may replace *urp file with similar-looking build.nix file. As a
> result, we get perfect NIx-powered library management, including the
> ability to write custom build stages, using any preprocessors, etc.
> And all this stuff will be (binary-)fetched on demand with only a
> single command `nix-build`.
>
> I already ported many libraries I wrote earlier and I am quite happy
> with the tests, so I'd like to invite others to try it.
>
> The demo project is https://github.com/grwlf/urweb-fviewer
>
> Regards,
> Sergey
>
> PS
> Uru3 and some other dependencies of Fviewer may require `cake3` - my
> previous approach to Ur/Web building problem. Base urweb-build
> expression contains rule for it, so Nix should handle the process
> completely automatically. I don't plan to use cake3/Haskell in future
> Ur/Web projects.
>
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