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Bleeding edge emacs overlay [maintainer=@adisbladis]
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Upload emacs-git packages to cachix #399

Closed slotThe closed 2 months ago

slotThe commented 5 months ago

Hi,

currently, there are hydra jobs to build packages for emacs and emacs-unstable, so that they can be cached and users do not have to rebuild every elisp package themselves. Fast to build as many are, this can otherwise take 3–5 minutes for a moderate number of packages (~200–400).

However, I'd wager a not-insignificant number of users using the overlay are actually building (or, rather, downloading) a more recent build of Emacs, like emacs-git. I would therefore advocate for adding at least packages-git to the current set of packages that are shipped to cachix.

What do people think?

Icy-Thought commented 4 months ago

I most certainly would agree and appreciate this change! Because rebuilding emacs-git on my low-end laptop is a rather time-consuming task.

adisbladis commented 2 months ago

While it would be great to offer binaries for all variants it causes too much package churn to do so for the git variants. We'd eat up all available nix-community hydra capacity while also causing eviction of stuff from the cache which is potentially more useful.