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Announcement on NixOS Discourse

Features

  • Hash prefetching powered by nurl
  • Dependency inference for Rust packages using the Riff registry and python projects
  • Interactive prompts with fuzzy tab completions
  • License detection
  • Supported builders
    • stdenv.mkDerivation
    • buildRustPackage
    • buildPythonApplication and buildPythonPackage
    • buildGoModule
  • Supported fetchers
    • fetchCrate
    • fetchFromGitHub
    • fetchFromGitLab
    • fetchFromGitea
    • fetchPypi
    • All other fetchers supported by nurl are also supported, you just have to specify the tags manually

Usage

Usage: nix-init [OPTIONS] <OUTPUT>

Arguments:
  <OUTPUT>  The path to output the generated file to

Options:
  -u, --url <URL>        Specify the URL
  -c, --config <CONFIG>  Specify the config file
  -h, --help             Print help
  -V, --version          Print version
  • pingveno
    4·
    2 years ago

    This might tempt me back from the land of Pop! OS. I had found it pretty painful to create packages, but this looks like it can take out a lot of the boilerplate.