Make nix the only dependency?

[VanCoding]

Devenv looks very interesting!

But what bugs me a bit is that devenv needs to be installed on the system before it can be used in a project.
That's an additional thing that co-workers have to install first, before they can start working. If they have nix already, it'd be cool if they wouldn't have to install anything first.

Could there be an option to install devenv as well when entering direnv? So that it's locked to a version and it's only available inside the project. Initializing a new project could then probably be done through "nix run github:cachix/devenv init"

[domenkozar]

#25 would get rid of Nix dependency, which would simplify the installation by a lot.

I'm not sure how getting rid of devenv would work, how do you enter the shell without devenv?

[VanCoding]

I'm not sure how getting rid of devenv would work, how do you enter the shell without devenv?

The only idea I have would be through nix develop but that of course would require having a flake and the only thing that would be in there is devenv as input and its shell as output.

[manveru]

nix run github:cachix/devenv shell also works for now.

[roberth]

A mode that uses the flake files instead of devenv.lock would allow the devenv command to be added to the flake devShell.

• A mode that takes the inputs from a flake instead of yaml #233