This is to bring the julia version information into accordance with
section 7.3.2 of the nixpkgs manual:
The version in the filename should leave out unnecessary detail.
For instance, if we keep the latest Firefox 2.0.x and 3.5.x
versions in Nixpkgs, they should be named firefox/2.0.nix and
firefox/3.5.nix, respectively (which, at a given point, might
contain versions 2.0.0.20 and 3.5.4).
Julia uses semantic versioning (http://semver.org), so the third
digit (the patch level) represents backwards-compatible bug fixes
only.
It was mentioned in PR #5842 that Julia's testsuite fails under nixpkgs.
This PR enables the testsuite for Julia 0.3.X to demonstrate that it
works.
Since Julia is numerical software, I think it is a great idea to
merge this current PR so that Julia will always be tested in the
future.
I was unable to get the tests to pass on the 0.2.X branch. However,
this branch is dead (its latest commit was Aug 8) and will receive
no more releases.
This includes updates to elm -compiler, -make, -package and -reactor.
-repl's test suite currently breaks.
The build for elm-reactor could be more concise, but it's clean. The
final build step for elm-reactor ultimately relies on elm-package
downloading some libraries, so anything radically better would probably
need nix to step in and somehow emulate elm-package. That would take
more knowledge about elm & nix than I have...
These versions have been removed:
- 6.4.2-binary.nix
- 6.4.2.nix
- 6.6.1.nix
- 6.8.2.nix
- 6.8.3.nix
- 6.10.1-binary.nix
- 6.10.1.nix
- 6.10.2.nix
- 6.10.3.nix
- 6.11.nix
- 6.12.1-binary.nix
- 6.12.1.nix
- 6.12.2.nix
- 7.0.1.nix
- 7.0.2.nix
- 7.0.3.nix
- 7.2.1.nix
- 7.4.1.nix
- 7.6.1.nix
- 7.6.2.nix
- 7.8.3-binary.nix
As a rule of thumb, we keep the latest version in every major release. If
someone feels up to the task of fixing versions 6.4.x, 6.6.x, and 6.8.x, then
please don't hesitate to revive those builds.
Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/5630.
Originally, I thought that I can commit a "clean" patch -- even if it
triggers re-builds -- because those re-builds were triggered by the
ncurses patch to GHC anyway . That patch had to be reverted, though, so
now I'm rewriting this patch to avoid re-builds on Linux.
What a mess. :-(
I thought that [1] could be fixed by ensuring that ncurses is available in the
environment (because ghc exports it as a propagateBuildInput), and indeed that
change fixed *some* build failures we've had before. However, the same error
still occurs with other packages, like hledger [2] and Agda [3]. Frankly, I
have no idea why those packages fail and others don't. But clearly the fix was
inadequate, so I'm reverting commit a8076c76.
[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/5616
[2] http://hydra.cryp.to/build/372451/nixlog/1/raw
[2] http://hydra.cryp.to/build/373161/nixlog/1/raw
The elm-reactor setup.hs file tries to build an elm file that's not
distributed in the cabal archive. The archive contains the
already-compiled js file so the step is unnecessary and I'm patching
it out.
