declare a development shell in flake.nix#372
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Can we elaborate in the description or a comment about this file. For example, what it is, that we don't maintain it, it's not officially supported but PRs are welcome.
This makes it possible to build i3lock (for development) on any system on which Nix can be installed (= most Linux systems). For example, I start Emacs using `nix develop --command emacs` and that Emacs process is in an environment with all i3lock build deps. See also: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-07-27-dev-shells-with-nix-4-quick-examples/ This file is provided best-effort, but PRs are welcome.
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This makes it possible to build i3 (for development) on any system on which Nix can be installed (= most Linux systems). For example, I start Emacs using `nix develop --command emacs` and that Emacs process is in an environment with all i3 build deps. See also: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-07-27-dev-shells-with-nix-4-quick-examples/ This file is provided best-effort, but PRs are welcome. While users can already run `nix develop nixpkgs#i3`, for nix-direnv integration it is required to declare a flake.nix in the project directory (otherwise direnv cannot find it). similar to i3/i3lock#372 related to i3#6549
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This makes it possible to build i3 (for development) on any system on which Nix can be installed (= most Linux systems). For example, I start Emacs using `nix develop --command emacs` and that Emacs process is in an environment with all i3 build deps. See also: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-07-27-dev-shells-with-nix-4-quick-examples/ This file is provided best-effort, but PRs are welcome. While users can already run `nix develop nixpkgs#i3`, for nix-direnv integration it is required to declare a flake.nix in the project directory (otherwise direnv cannot find it). similar to i3/i3lock#372 related to #6549
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For context, I had to declare this file anyway for developing i3lock, so I figured I might as well put it into the repository for the benefit of others. Of course, people who want to ignore Nix are free to keep doing so :)
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This makes it possible to build i3lock (for development) on any system on which Nix can be installed (= most Linux systems).
For example, I start Emacs using
nix develop --command emacsand that Emacs process is in an environment with all i3lock build deps.See also:
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-07-27-dev-shells-with-nix-4-quick-examples/