Stream: general

Topic: OSS contribution ideas

Srid (Apr 30 2024 at 11:24):

I thought I'd dedicate a topic to catalogue ideas for OSS contributions.

Srid (Apr 30 2024 at 11:24):

Use haskell-flake in pandoc

Pandoc's author is receptive to modernizing the flake.nix to use haskell-flake. If anybody's interested: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/8818

majorkaks (Jun 01 2024 at 21:09):

Problem: Linux doesn't have portable binaries like windows - download exe from a site and double click to run.

I think we could build something based off nix, which runs on any distro and sets up /nix under some X, and allows people to run all nix binaries directly on any distro.

Example:
makeitrun reptyr - launches reptyr as of nixos unstable / latest stable.

X:

1. Can be a ram based filesytem like tmpfs
2. Can be a filesystem within a file.
3. Can be a directory path - mainly if user wants to debug.

makeitrun itself must be a statically linked binary - so that it can run without relying on any glibc etc.

What do you peeps thing about it?

Srid (Jul 03 2024 at 14:45):

Anybody want to add a NixOS service module for this?

https://once.com/writebook

Srid (Jul 04 2024 at 23:51):

Srid said:

Use haskell-flake in pandoc

Pandoc's author is receptive to modernizing the flake.nix to use haskell-flake. If anybody's interested: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/8818

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/pull/9952

Last updated: Oct 18 2024 at 08:48 UTC