Nix VSCode Marketplace Integration

[AmeerTaweel]

Recently, I created nix-vscode-marketplace, a flake that includes the 10k most popular extensions from the VSCode Marketplace, and all the extensions of OpenVSX. @LEv145 suggested we integrate this into the NUR in this issue.

Do you think it's a good idea?

[Mic92]

Why not. What is the evaluation time for this repo?

[AmeerTaweel]

Sorry for the late reply. I was inactive for the last period because of my university.

Can you please tell me how do we check evaluation time? I see there is a nix eval command. Should I use this?

[Mic92]

We currently have a timeout for running nix eval:

NUR/ci/nur/update.py

Line 55 in 3a5f371

res = proc.wait(10)

$ time nix-env -qa '*' --xml --meta --drv-path -f ./default.nix

It is limited currently to 10s but this limit was chosen arbitrarily to prevent NUR from breaking when indexing random repositories.

[AmeerTaweel]

Thanks.

I want to restructure this flake because the guys at nixos-search asked me to make the exported package set flat. Then I will evaluate it and report the results here.

[AmeerTaweel]

It seems that nix-vscode-marketplace will be merged into nixpkgs. So I'm closing this...