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By the way things are, I doubt they'll be stable in next release either. There were some pretty fancy things in last year's NixCon so devs might just push on th
by e3bc54b2 5y ago
By the way things are, I doubt they'll be stable in next release either. There were some pretty fancy things in last year's NixCon so devs might just push on that.
But the problem is, many many new shiny things are so comingles with flakes that they are now stuck in limbo, thanks to the one amazing feature that was showcased back in 2019 and then rotted away in implementation hell. Initial RFC was rushed, barely discussed (there are lots of comments, but very little progress, as is the way with flakes) and then simply merged as experimental akin to pushing mess under the carpet. Well the mess was useful, but now the carpet is uneven and the first timers can barely walk straight. I just want a conclusion on flakes, any conclusion would be better than this stupid silent march.
- _huayra_ 5y agoI wonder if there are any contentious design decisions left in flakes. I've still new to Nix, but it seems pretty solid (the only thing I've seen is that `nix flake info` is now `nix flake metadata` or something minor). The only missing thing I've seen is how to load a repl with flake contents easily, but I usually do: nix-repl> builtins.getFlake (toString ./.) when I'm in the flake directory. It would be nice to have `nix flake repl` as well.