[request] Add to nixpkgs

[t56k]

Any interest in this being added to nixpkgs for Nix and NixOS?

[clementpoiret]

Would be awesome :)

[paul-gauthier]

Having aider available in nixpkgs sounds nice, but it's probably not something I would have time to work on in the near term.

[t56k]

I've made a Nix flake which gets aider up and running in a local devshell--happy to post it if there's interest (or fork the branch or whatever). I don't use Python enough to have an established methodology for repackaging from Pypi (i.e., everything I tried would fail) so this will have to do for now.

[rehno-lindeque]

I've made a Nix flake which gets aider up and running in a local devshell--happy to post it if there's interest

@t56k Can't hurt, would you mind?

Not really sure if it's something I'll tackle, but aider has piqued my interest and trying out with a flake might motivate me to package.

[giodamelio]

I got aider packaged using dream2nix to try it out today. It's not pretty, and definitely not anywhere close to being ready to go into nixpkgs, but it is usable.

Package source in my dotfiles: https://github.com/giodamelio/nixos-configs/blob/main/src/packages/aider.nix

You can also try it quickly via my flake:

$ nix run github:giodamelio/nixos-configs#aider

[rehno-lindeque]

Another quick alternative, but note that it's just an experiment. I'm somewhat unlikely to update it beyond the current revision of aider (~v0.35.1-dev~ v0.44.0). Only tested on x64-64_linux.

$ nix run github:paul-gauthier/aider/pull/608/head#aider

[unchainedio]

please add aider to nixpackages

[paul-gauthier]

I'm open to a PR that would automate publishing aider releases to nix. I just don't use nix and would have to figure it all out from scratch.

[c-p-b]

I got aider packaged using dream2nix to try it out today. It's not pretty, and definitely not anywhere close to being ready to go into nixpkgs, but it is usable.

Package source in my dotfiles: https://github.com/giodamelio/nixos-configs/blob/main/src/packages/aider.nix

You can also try it quickly via my flake:

$ nix run github:giodamelio/nixos-configs#aider

I got a slightly modified version of this working. What I had to do:

• Move the pkgs.FetchFromGithub into a let block to reference the src later for requirements.txt (so that it used the requirements.txt packaged into the tarball). The code as-is I believe expected that to either be local or was referencing it in some other way, but it threw an error for me that it couldn't find this file.
• Regenerate the lockfile by removing it and following the prompts to build for my architecture. If I used the existing lockfile it would use packages compiled for aarch64-darwin, and I'm building on x86-64-darwin

[rehno-lindeque]

I'm open to a PR that would automate publishing aider releases to nix. I just don't use nix and would have to figure it all out from scratch.

I don't think you need to do anything like that @paul-gauthier. (Honestly, not your responsibility)

I believe the options for people who want this are:

1. Someone who is willing to be a nix package maintainer can attempt to get all the packages in #608 updated and merged into nixpkgs via pull requests.
   • Side-note: afaik I don't think any dream2nix packages are in nixpkgs right now, so I think my PR above is the closest thing.
   • Help can be attained on the nix discourse, etc
2. Go upvote https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/330726 and hope some good soul decides to volunteer
3. Use someone else's package definition

[jevy]

Bounty posted here: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/50-packaging-bound-aider/49867

Spent 6 hours on it and I just want it works :sob:

[arilotter]

It got merged 17 hours ago! :saluting_face: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/323927

[paul-gauthier]

I'm going to close this issue for now, but feel free to add a comment here and I will re-open or file a new issue any time.

[mjrusso]

Can confirm that the aider-chat package works. (Great timing; I've been meaning to try this out for awhile now :) Thanks to everyone involved!