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gfngfn
Add Nix installation method
Nix supports macOS too (and Bash on Ubuntu on Windows unofficially), but I've only tested the build on NixOS and Ubuntu. (If I have the time) I'll try them and if they seem to work fine, I'll add them to the supported list.
Why is it better to support installation by Nix officially? I think Nix is not so popular.
Considering that getting SATySFi packaged into distros would probably be a pain, wouldn't it be nice for there to be at least one way to install SATySFi on Linux distributions (which doesn't require you to manually build it from source)?
Hmm... I think packaging SATySFi is early because it's under the highly development period currently. There is even no version number (#22). So I think the cost to support Nix officially is bigger than the advantage of that.
Note that this is my personal opinion. The final decision will be done by gfn-san.
Why is it better to support installation by Nix officially? I think Nix is not so popular.
I don't think of README inclusion as an indication of official support. However, if we want to be clear, I suggest adding the "list of third-party packages/tools" section.
As a side note, I also want some traffic line from here to satysfi.vim and SATySFi for Windows, whether "official" or not.
@mt-caret I asked @gfngfn. His opinion is that it should be clear that the Nix package is unofficial.
HEAD of master currently doesn't build on Nix, so I'll rebase and add something saying it's unofficial when I update the package over at NixOS/nixpkgs.
Considering that SATySFi has had semver for a while and you can install 0.0.4 via nixpkgs-unstable now, what does everybody think about merging this?