Add nix flake for dev shell

[6543]

To try it you need nix installed nix-daemon running and your user has to be member of the nix-users group. Or use NixOS.

then by just:

nix develop -c $SHELL

a dedicated development environment with all needed packages will be created.

[6543]

@qwerty287 anything else :) - I kind a need it if i want to dev on my nixos laptop 😅

[qwerty287]

No looks good :) (I didn't test it)

[woodpecker-bot]

Tearing down https://woodpecker-ci-woodpecker-pr-3702.surge.sh

[qwerty287]

However, I don't really like having a new config file for every environment. We now have vscode, gitpod, nixos and the "regular" stuff like go install... I don't really like having so many different files doing more or less the same, and one unified file format used by every tool would be pretty nice, but I guess that would be a case of https://xkcd.com/927/...

(Yes, I know that they are all different. VS Code is about installing the extensions there, NixOS about the packages, and Gitpod about a full environment directly usable. Still I don't like it.)

[6543]

well i do understand but I would argue that the devs who use the specific thing should just maintain it - and if it's not used we can remove it at some point e.g. wen it not got touched for ~6months or so

[6543]

in this case if flake.lock is not updated ...

[qwerty287]

Yeah I agree in general but that's not that easy to determine for every environment. A file can be years old and still work flawlessly.
Also, there's no central place where these files are listed. A file in the root dir is seen by everyone, but if you move that to e.g. .github/, that's completely different and the file will more likely be overseen.

Maybe we could use something like codeowners to define maintainers for files if they're external contributors so we also have a list of files like this we could check, but this solution is also not ideal.

[xoxys]

I don't really see why those files have to live in this repo. I have just created a .localdev folder in my local woodpecker repo copy and excluded it in my global gitignore. This folder holds whatever is needed for me to develop woodpecker.

[6543]

because this is a source of truth other who use nix can also revere too - and it does not hurt at all

[qwerty287]

Maybe we could use a separate repo where we collect files like this and then link to it from the docs? This way we also don't have to do it for every single repo

[6543]

Well this kind a file is ment to be served from the source code repo, if done otherwhise all the tooling around it do not work