recommend building projects forward-compatible with flakes
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Description
New users sometimes are interested in flakes and have heard of them, but may avoid them due to their experimental status and perceived additional complexity. A friendly way to introduce it is to build a project's .nix files in a way that are compatible with being called from flakes. And then a simple wrapper flake.nix provides a backward-compatible upgrade path when they desire.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the existing nix.dev guidance for building projects and the .nix files it discusses. Define how to explain forward-compatible files and a backward-compatible flake.nix wrapper, then update the documentation so newcomers can understand the upgrade path and when they are done.
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Assessment
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100