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This keeps the dependencies lighter. Perhaps future work on this derivation could enable the Cocoa interface by default on Mac.
This variant uses the more Mac-friendly aqua driver, but it requires that you separately install the AquaTerm package. Note that AquaTerm is open source and could perhaps be later included as a nix derivation. If that happens, it would be nice to remove the gnuplot_aquaterm top-level attribute and just make it the default.
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How will gnuplot know to use aquaterm? I see no option-passing, or any additional buildInput... |
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It looks like a default On Sunday, 10 November 2013, Vladimír Čunát wrote:
Eric Kow http://erickow.com |
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Hmm, so then people will automagically get different versions of gnuplot from the same derivation, based on whether the builder was run on a machine with aquaterm. I know we do have impurities in darwin, but this seems it could cause problems. If there is a configure option available for it, IMO we would better make sure the build fails if the requested stuff isn't available, or something. People here expect to get (almost) the same thing when building the same thing on another machine. (It almost looks like we're trying to stop your contributions, but that's certainly not intentional.) |
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No problem at all :-) I appreciate Nix trying to be as predictable/pure as possible. Won't be able to look into this for quite a while. Completely random note: it might be quite nice to distinguish different versions of MacOS from each other, even if the only consequence is getting a different hash for package config deps. At least, so long as things remain impure on darwin. |
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I did the change I meant and pushed into x-updates, very soon into master now, I hope. |
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Thanks! Sorry I never got around to it. |
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