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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 (1 children)

Nice to see you and your project here as well✨✨✨

It is pretty useful! Thanks!

PS: Also worth sharing on [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [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...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 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.