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I wish more repositories took the NixOS approach of writing the build scripts (+ patches if necessary) on GitHub for easy visibility and a more familiar way to
by Shoue 7y ago
I wish more repositories took the NixOS approach of writing the build scripts (+ patches if necessary) on GitHub for easy visibility and a more familiar way to submit a new or upgraded package. Once approved the binary is built and distributed from the Nix binary cache.
- jchw 7y agoNixOS is awesome, but contributing to Nixpkgs is at least a little challenging. The tooling leaves a bit to be desired, and it’s really hard to keep all of the guidelines and rules in your head. It would be an excellent experience if there was extensive linting and the tools were easier to understand, imo. Certainly isn’t an easy problem. It’s still probably a lot better than contributing to say, Debian. OTOH, the PR backlog is always daunting.