Nix Flake for NixOS

[sahilkmishra]

This flake allows me a dev shell and the ability to use nix build to compile edit

[lhecker]

If we add this, do these files have to be in the root directory of the project?
Also, does NixOS not have a repository for projects?

[sahilkmishra]

If we add this, do these files have to be in the root directory of the project? Also, does NixOS not have a repository for projects?

no this is purely a development shell and a command to build/run a binary of edit. In order for this to show up on nixpkgs there's a separate repository that would need to link to this repository and read from the nix flake that is present in order for it to be widely available. I made this so I can compile(and any nix users) and start to work on linker errors, namely the libicu missing error

I believe it doesn't need to be in the root dir but I'm unsure what the nixpkgs derivation would look like without the flake being at the root level.

[ADKaster]

If the maintainers are uncomfortable putting nix contributor files at the package root, an alternative could be to link to a configuration that is owned by the "nix-community" organization, like this one: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-environments

[lhecker]

I'll close this PR for now. While I appreciate the work you put into this, we're not yet ready to broadly endorse any specific external package management or similar. (Same for linking to external repositories.) It's still a small project and we want to keep the focus similarly small for now.