Nix as OS X Package Manager

Re:Nix as OS X Package Manager by hso1 on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @04:36PM (#11772864)

Since I discovered Nix, I've been using it as a package manager for OS X and Linux. Every project my team is working on now has a default.nix file. Getting started on a project is so easy for a new hire now: just one `nix-env` away from a fully working dev environment! :D

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Re:Nix as OS X Package Manager by drdaeman on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @05:44PM (#11773379)

By chance, do you have some public/sample projects that use this approach?

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Re:Nix as OS X Package Manager by hso1 on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @06:26PM (#11773649)

Yes! Look here: https://git.hso.rocks/hso/def

Is a Telegram bot that queries the RAE dictionary (Spanish). It doesn't have any documentation yet, though :S

You can look for the project deps code here: https://git.hso.rocks/hso

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Re:Nix as OS X Package Manager by drdaeman on Thursday May 26, 2016 @07:35AM (#11777134)

Looks great, thanks for sharing! I'd definitely try this approach.

Do you write default.nix files by hand, or there are some tools to automate the process?

I suppose for a project with a lot of dependencies (one of my current requirements.txt is over 100 SLOC long - almost all deps are on PyPI; haven't checked nixpkgs as I'm stuck with Debian at the moment) it would be somewhat tiresome to check every package and for every missing one list all the dependencies.

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Re:Nix as OS X Package Manager by rokgarbas on Friday May 27, 2016 @07:29AM (#11785263)

give pypi2nix a try and ping me on irc if it fails (nick: garbas)

https://github.com/garbas/pypi2nix

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