nix-init - Generate Nix packages from URLs with hash prefetching, dependency inference, license detection, and more

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  • nix-init

    Generate Nix packages from URLs with hash prefetching, dependency inference, license detection, and more [maintainer=@figsoda]

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  • nurl

    Generate Nix fetcher calls from repository URLs [maintainer=@figsoda]

  • All other fetchers supported by nurl are also supported, you just have to specify the tags manually

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  • riff

    Discontinued Riff automatically provides external dependencies for Rust projects, with support for other languages coming soon.

  • Dependency inference for Rust packages using the Riff registry and python projects

  • nixpkgs-pytools

    Tools for removing the tedious nature of creating nixpkgs derivations [maintainer=@costrouc]

  • Great project, i will test it out next time i need to package a python module and i hope it handles certain cases better than python-package-init (my project)!

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