Nix smp server package

[ehmry]

Would be nice to have the smp server packaged in a flake here or downstream in Nixpkgs.

[ppom0]

Pushing the server to Hackage would make its packaging in Nixpkgs trivial. Is it doable? It seems like it was done until v1.1.0.

[epoberezkin]

alright, we will re-start publishing packages.

[turion]

Any update on this?

[ehmry]

I've built the SMP server with Nix but its not suitable for a NixOS service. It uses hardcoded file-system paths, the user is expected to initalize it by running it as root, and the configuration isn't documented.

[giorgiga]

I took a look at the code (I also want this packaged for nix), and the hard-coded paths (/etc/opt/simplex, /var/opt/simplex-xftp and the like) seem to have been addressed shortly after this issue was closed (see #817 for smp-server, I didn't look up the commits for the other binaries, but if you look at the various Main.rs they all seem to be using environment variables now).

@ehmry Are you still interested in packaging the smp-server (and possibly the other ones) for nixos? We can work together on that.

[ehmry]

I'm not interested in packaging smp-server. Upstream has a curl-to-bash attitude and it's not worth my time to work around that.

[giorgiga]

It's ok if you are not interested, but I must say spewing judgement in that elitist tone is just impolite and uncalled for. If you wanna critique someone, please be constructive about it (as I'm trying to be here).

[ehmry]

Elitism is appropriate when it comes to security standards and practices.