staff-d / flakey-app

A Flakey App

This is a nonsensical python """App""" which I used to get a feeling for the new and experimental nix-flakes.

I thought I'll put it out here for anyone who wants a starting point on how to compose flakes, which is not showcased in the aforementioned blog. It features a references to another flake-based project (the flakey-lib), which provides a nonsensical function to calculate something.

How to build

If you've read this far, I assume you now how to use nix.

Eelcos blog provides a short intro into how to activate the flakes feature and how to build a flake. If you are lazy, you can also call use the build.sh I've provided so you don't have to fiddle with the flags.

Issues

To reproduce my usual python workflow, I wanted to activate pylint and pytest-cov via a setup.cfg. As of the writing of this README, this crashes nix with a boost::bad_format_string exception. I've reported this bug here.