Learning Journey tutorial - Trivial builders

[zmitchell]

Project description

Not every project is compiling Chromium. Sometimes you just want to ensure that specific packages are available when you run a shell script. This tutorial will focus on using trivial builders to put together a small package.

Steps

• Submit a PR with an outline of the tutorial
• Submit a PR with a draft of the tutorial

Ideas

• You could build up a writeScriptBin by starting from writeTextFile that manually puts the file in /bin and makes it executable.
• You could show how running commands with nix-shell -p can be "saved" to a package with writeShellApplication to make sure that the script is persisted and the dependencies are available.

[nixos-discourse]

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2023-06-19-tutorial-series-call-for-feedback-1/29377/1

[nixos-discourse]

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2023-06-22-learning-journey-working-group-meeting-notes-14/29490/1

[zmitchell]

The current status of this issue is that we've decided that it may just be better to improve the reference documentation rather than trying to write a tutorial that ties together a handful of trivial builders since, as the name implies, they are "trivial".

[brianmcgee]

Took me longer than I hoped but here's my first pass NixOS/nixpkgs#249721