Nix flake / nixpkgs package

[tulilirockz]

It would be awesome to have this package as a nix flake or a nix package so that people could either use them in Nix scripts, or just use it as a default shell on NixOS. And also it would provide a pretty sweet reproducible environment for anyone to use this in any linux distribuition. What do you all think?

[willghatch]

I would love to have a Nix package/flake. There was a project called Racket2Nix (https://github.com/fractalide/racket2nix) that was aimed at generating NixOS packages from Racket packages which I had hoped would make using Racket packages in NixOS easy, but I don't think it ever got to that point and I don't think it's currently being developed. I'm not sure if there are any other developments with regard to converting Racket packages to Nix packages like exists for other language-specific package managers. I use NixOS myself, but haven't tried to package Racket-related stuff for it -- I either use the Racket package in NixOS and install all of my Racket packages with raco pkg into my home directory, or I build from source in a nix-shell. I have never used flakes -- their experimental status scared me away from investing in them years ago and I have never bothered to learn how to use them since. Having Rash packaged nicely for NixOS would be a big upgrade for me, as I have to remember to manually install Rash and other Racket packages every time I update NixOS and get a new version of Racket.

I don't have the bandwidth to pursue it right now, but I would gladly take a PR that adds a Nix flake or package definition.

[nrabulinski]

Hey I just wanted to chime in that I also worked on a similar racket-nix compatibility layer as racket2nix didn’t seem to work for me https://github.com/nrabulinski/racket.nix. The sad part is that I also don’t really have the time to work on this so it may be currently broken but last time I checked I was able to package and use rash using it (which was the main point for me), even if it was pretty involved. Here’s the full package along with my config, all wrapped with wrapper-manager: https://github.com/nrabulinski/settei/blob/main/wrappers/rash/default.nix