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nix-init - Generate Nix packages from URLs with hash prefetching, dependency inference, license detection, and more (github.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

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...