How to make a new haskell package available in Nix?

bratfizyk · February 24, 2021, 10:02pm

Hi,
I’m quite new both to Haskell and Nix.
I’ve just uploaded a new package to hackage. Is there anything else that I need to do in order to make it available in nix as well?
Regards,
Alojzy

jonringer · February 24, 2021, 11:21pm

hackage is semi-automatically updated. If you’re package is on hackage, it will eventually be in nixpkgs.

bratfizyk · February 24, 2021, 11:55pm

Hi @jonringer. Thanks for the response. For my information: does “eventually” mean “hours”, “days”, or rather “weeks” in this context? Or maybe “hard to tell”?

jonringer · February 25, 2021, 1:08am

@peti does the update once a week. So, depends on the timing, but up to a week.

peti · February 25, 2021, 7:53am

I livestream the effort, which takes place every Friday at 20:00 UTC+1 at https://twitch.tv/peti343.

bratfizyk · February 25, 2021, 8:32am

Great, thanks for the information!

bratfizyk · February 27, 2021, 1:55pm

@peti How did the update go yesterday? I couldn’t stay 'till the end.