The holy grail of nixpkgs: version ranges

kept by blakbelt78 sep 02

Farid Zakaria demonstrates how to add version‑range support to Nixpkgs using a clingo‑based solver (grail) that queries the nixpkgs multiverse for compatible revisions.

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