publish zed to nixos package registry

[brizzbuzz]

Hey :) so excited this is open-sourced now.

Would love for this to be published to the nix package registry for easy installs to NixOS

[srid]

Adding a flake.nix to this repo would also be an useful thing to do because, in addition to being able to nix run it off this repo (without relying on nixpkgs), you can also use Nix to develop on the project.

The flake can also be used as reference for upstreaming to nixpkgs at this point, making that a simpler process.

EDIT: For those curious to see what this would look like, here's a template: https://github.com/srid/rust-nix-template ... for anything advanced, there's also crane (eg.: this Dioxus app uses it).

EDIT 2: The foreman/Procfile stuff can be ported to https://github.com/Platonic-Systems/process-compose-flake

[Reverier-Xu]

*zed currently only supports macOS, and getting it to support Linux may take a while of work.

[gimbling-away]

*zed currently only supports macOS, and getting it to support Linux may take a while of work.

Nix is available on macOS. :)

[toplinuxsir]

Support linux is a great idea

[liberodark]

I hope a package for NixOS

[domenkozar]

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/284010

[musjj]

Already merged now. But an upstream flake.nix would still be nice to have to make it easier for Nix users to contribute.

[boomshroom]

Complication: Zed downloads its own prebuilt binary of NodeJS (currently 18.15.0; closest version in nixpkgs is 18.20.2). While less of an issue for MacOS or other Linux distros that have Nix added on, NixOS itself wouldn't be able to run the packaged version of node without nix-ld.

[PedroHLC]

Complication: Zed downloads its own prebuilt binary of NodeJS (currently 18.15.0

We could substituteInPlace the occurrences of zed::node_binary_path(), that would help a lot. (but then we have to install the extensions as dev)

But Zed could use having more configurable paths (Settings and/or EnvVars) because for example, the elm-language-server support is very tied to using it through their nodejs, meanwhile we could use it from drop-in executable.

[libewa]

but then we have to install the extensions as dev

This could be partially fixed (or worked around) by publishing the extensions to nixpkgs using a zedExtensions namespace (i.e. publishing the extensions as zedExtensions.something, like vscode does with vscodeExtensions) and installing them through home-manager. I am currently working on a home-manager module for Zed, so installing extensions with nix would also be one of my bucket list items.

[libewa]

I got this working using auto_install_extensions, the module is now waiting for approval in nix-community/home-manager#5455.

[sokai]

JFYI: https://zed.dev/blog/zed-on-linux .oO(Maybe it can help here?) KR

[IvanTurgenev]

Looks like it is already there

[PedroHLC]

yeah, this can be closed, Nixpkgs has the latest tag that can be built with rust 1.79 (and pretty sure as soon as 1.80 is in-repo we'll bump it again)