thunderbird-conversations VS nix-bundle

You may have to wait longer for the Conversations extension to support Thunderbird 115. The extension developer has said that it needs significant changes and that he doesn't have enough spare time. The latest update on support for Thunderbird 115 [1] says that there's more work to be done and some dependencies on Thunderbird fixes.

[1]: https://github.com/thunderbird-conversations/thunderbird-con...

4. Conversations I have used for a very short time that extension many years ago. It seemed to work correctly (at the time), but I didn't like the feel of it, so I removed it. When you installed the extension, did you follow all recommendations? I am assuming you have installed this extension. Read carefully the Wiki to make sure you have installed it correctly. Check especially the addons that it replaces as well as the incompatible add-ons. From memory, when you install that extension, it tells you exactly what settings you have to select so it works correctly. if you haven't followed these instructions, then Thunderbird Conversations might be the culprit. Apart from that, since I don't currently use this extension, I won't say more about it.

2- With the extension Thunderbird Conversations Basically, if you follow the installation and configuration instructions found here and also the first time you install the extension, then it will show complete threads with both the messages you receive and those you sent. Even though it does exactly what it says, I didn't like the experience because I don't easily know where are really stored each message and there is also a difference where are showed messages when you start the discussion vs when someone else starts it. Besides, I am generally not a fan of the say a full discussion is shown in a message viewed in Conversation mode (and I don't like the way GMail shows it either).

I admit that there is an element of, "but I chose an obscure and challenging linux variant, waaah why isn't it supported" here, but (a) there's currently no flatpak and (b) when, for goodness sakes, will major linux projects begin packaging for Nix/NixOS as a matter of course?

It's not hard, and the benefits go far outside merely supporting Nix, as e.g. a flake.nix file would allow this project to generate docker images, and appImage images, as basically afterthoughts. (See e.g. https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle.)

Nix flake support would also provide a perfectly reproducible build environment, which can help clarify dependencies, and thus help the project build achieve idempotence, but I'll save the full shill for some github issue.

In fact, I'm inclined to roll up my shirtsleeves and help make this real.

https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle perhaps?

Another way to approach this would be to advocate Nix as the build system for Flatpak or AppImage. Don't know what the status is of nix-bundle, but if it is possible to turn a Nix package into an AppImage with little extra work that would be ideal.

Nix itself is more focused on "distribute from this host with nix, to this other host with nix".

Though, here is e.g. https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle, which is supported as an experimental command in nix 2.4.

I believe this tool does: https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle

Yes, it's extremely powerful once you truly understand Nix.

There are efforts to improve documentation, but it still is lacking (I think the biggest problem is that Nix is so big, not just the OS but it can be utilized as a build system).

Just with NixOS is not exactly clear how can you for example build your custom image.

I think https://nix.dev/ is approaching the documentation from the right direction.

There are also many pieces that people built that you need to find.

For example some things that I found accidentally:

* https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle

* https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os

Unfortunately those side projects often have even worse documentation.