Generate Nix packages from URLs with hash prefetching, dependency inference, license detection, and more [maintainer=@figsoda] - GitHub - nix-community/nix-init: Generate Nix packages from URLs wit...
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
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.
Edit: I didn’t want this to show up on people’s timelines twice since !nixos is a small community, but seems like lemmy handles crossposts perfectly, and I don’t have to worry about that, so I crossposted this to a couple more communities
Yeah Lemmy is pretty good on that and overall as well. I wish more people would move from the popular proprietary/centralized forums alike to here. Maybe it just needs more word of mouth…
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.
Nice to see you and your project here as well✨✨✨
It is pretty useful! Thanks!
PS: Also worth sharing on !nixos@lemmy.ml
I have been lurking here for a while now and made my first post for this project
Thanks for the suggestion, crossposted to !nixos: https://lemmy.ml/post/738999
Edit: I didn’t want this to show up on people’s timelines twice since !nixos is a small community, but seems like lemmy handles crossposts perfectly, and I don’t have to worry about that, so I crossposted this to a couple more communities
Yeah Lemmy is pretty good on that and overall as well. I wish more people would move from the popular proprietary/centralized forums alike to here. Maybe it just needs more word of mouth…