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# Easy Dhall Nix
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Derivations for easily downloading Dhall binaries and putting them to use.
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## Trial
You cn get an appropriate nix-shell with the binaries installed by first testing this with:
```
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nix-shell
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```
## Installation
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You might choose to simply copy the derivations from this repository, or you can fetch the git/Github repo using the various helpers:
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```
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> nix repl
nix-repl> pkgs = import <nixpkgs> {}
nix-repl> drvs = import (pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
owner = "justinwoo";
repo = "easy-dhall-nix";
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rev = # some REV
sha256 = # some SHA
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}) {}
nix-repl> drvs.dhall-simple
«derivation /nix/store/qz29jbplpmlvsbmq05084dh1fbs8sl0h-dhall-simple.drv»
```
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## NixOS: Contributors needed
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The derivations here have been tested by others to work on NixOS. If you have problems, open an issue.
## Update this repository
To update, run
```
./fetch.py
```
from the root of this repository.
It will prefetch the binaries from the latest dhall release on Github.