Personally, I’d love to see this feature.
Right now, I build Haskell using cabal because I found the IOHK Haskell.nix implementation broken when I reached for it for a project with pkg-config dependencies.
Similar deal with purs-nix when Purescript rewrote spago and broke purs-nix.
It would be nice to finally build these two languages in Nix again with that lovely determinism I’ve grown so comfortable with.
Welcome!
I highly recommend forking an advanced config and refactoring it to do what you want.
I mostly agree but from the article, it’s clear that he only hatched his little stupid scheme when he got demoted.
Undoubtedly.
Still, he will go down in history both for his stupidity AND boldness.
Dude is an absolute legend!
Thanks for the update. I did read down the page and saw that. The dev looked really receptive, cooperative, and pro about it.
Nixpkgs has been working on packaging it for more than 6 months now. That is a damning timeframe for both Zen and nixpkgs in IMO equal parts. In Zen’s case, that means that they are packaging their app in a very unconventional way and lagging with security updates, breaking standards (which usually means they are amateurs). In nixpkgs case, that means nixpkgs needs better
buildMozillaMach
support.
I used it in an appImage and came away unimpressed. Using it in a tiling WM, I loved the minimalism….but I just wish it had better security and rendered webpages better. On Brave, websites literally look sharper than on Zen.
Edit: most of my concerns were addressed by the dev themself just down the page a bit.
I’m hoping NixOS figures out these inevitable growing pains. The problem they’re having has a ton to do with flakes and Eelco not wanting to accept the community’s pushback on this feature. So, he implemented the feature in his “upstream” project.
I use it all the time but I’m told it is unstable.