feat: Add support for Nix Flakes through nix develop #2453
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Description
Add support for Nix Flakes.
Before, when users wanted to use Nix Flakes (https://nixos.org) they had to wrap the shell command into the cli call to
nix develop
:with this PR, users can indicate which Nix environment to use, similarly to containers and conda:
Related issue: #139
QC
docs/
) is updated to reflect the changes or this is not necessary (e.g. if the change does neither modify the language nor the behavior or functionalities of Snakemake).This PR adds a simple test for the feature.
I am unsure how to add it to the test suite though because of the Nix dependency....
For the doc, I will be happy to write a section if this PR gets accepted :)