Flake support - what are your thoughts?

Flake support - what are your thoughts?

[Dom (shymega) Rodriguez]

Hello all!

I'm picking up the Flake patch previously posted on this list, and want
to get some input from developers & users alike.

Do you prefer `nix-shell`/`nix-build` or Flakes? Would you be satisfied if
we had compatibility shims for these tools?

How do you feel about impure Flakes? Would you mind passing `--impure`
to `nix $CMD` invocations?

Any thoughts are welcome - feel free to DM me on Matrix/IRC if you don't
want to reply to the list. My Matrix ID is: @dom:rodriguez, and my IRC
nick is 'shymega[i]'.

Thanks!

Best wishes,
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Dom Rodriguez
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Re: Flake support - what are your thoughts?

[Alyssa Ross]

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"Dom (shymega) Rodriguez" <shymega@shymega.org.uk> writes:

> Do you prefer `nix-shell`/`nix-build` or Flakes? Would you be satisfied if
> we had compatibility shims for these tools?

I think it's much better to have the flake.nix call into generic code
than having a wrapper around flake.nix — flake.nix files are often very
long with a lot of levels of indentation just for the Flakes stuff, so
it's nice to have the actual build stuff elsewhere to keep flake.nix
manageable.  Also, to have a compatibility shim, as I understand it you
end up needing a Nix implementation of Flakes (flake-compat).  In the
other direction, there's no need for anything like this.


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