Upstream to nixpkgs

[pinage404]

Hello,

At each update, Nix recompile the whole project, importing all dependencies to compile it

This requires many CPU time and many storage space

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Having the package in nixpkgs, would pre-compile it in their Hydra pipeline

To use it, Nix would just download the built package and its runtime dependencies

This would require fewer CPU time and less storage

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I could upstream to Nixpkgs, i know how to do it, but i don't want to maintain it

Does someone want to upstream the Nix package to Nixpkgs ?

[cjpais]

@y0usaf @xilec

[xilec]

Great idea to have Handy in nixpkgs! Unfortunately, I'm also not in a position to maintain it right now.

During active development, pulling directly from the flake works well for me. And with the Cachix binary cache from PR #1237, the main pain point (long compilation times) should be resolved for most Nix users without the overhead of nixpkgs maintenance.

[philocalyst]

I opened a PR! NixOS/nixpkgs#507754
Some issues, however:
It'll build, bundle, etc. But then when run it will quit and exit cleanly, without executing anything or throwing any debug logs
Checking the assembly the main function seemed to just be a stub which is odd of course
Letting you know in hopes that the mistake is immediately obvious, basically just adapted the flake

@xilec

[xilec]

@philocalyst I reviewed your nixpkgs PR and left detailed feedback with fixes for the Linux build issues: NixOS/nixpkgs#507754 (comment)