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In case anyone is looking to get started, 1. Entry point to the `esy add ...` function - https://github.com/esy/esy/blob/master/bin/esy.re#L1110 2. Parser that would include the version constraint - https://github.com/esy/esy/blob/master/esy-package-config/Req.re#L41 3....

@lobre Esy is now completely buildable with opam. In future, I'm hoping esy can be built with just ocaml and dune (both of which can be packaged for any os...

Regarding the original post, esy supports building sources from offline tarballs. Once esy itself can be distributed as a Nix recipe, esy packages being ported to Nix could be matter...

I see those cached esy tarballs as the first step. Ideally, esy packages are to be the transformed into Nix to play well with the rest of the ecosystem. But...

This is also being tracked in #1257 (BSD support)

I couldn't :/ Busy improving docs around esy infra (overrides, c packages etc) for the upcoming release.

That is indeed a great point. Will definitely considering writing something. re: pre-release. Try `npm i -g @esy-nightly/esy` If you're interested, I can add you to the group of beta...

@syaiful6 Once esy is buildable via opam, we need to build the esy sourcetree with that binary. The binary you see on npm are built via esy itself. They are...

Feel free to share the chain of commands you had to run to build esy with opam. That will help us come up with the one-time pipeline that looks like...

*Update* Esy is now full buildable with opam. This will make it easier to package it for BSDs provided they have opam. CI logs: https://dev.azure.com/esy-dev/esy/_build/results?buildId=3274&view=logs&jobId=04a664a5-cc8b-573b-9b7e-c652326f1d1f Docker file with steps to...