Bundlers Alternatives

bundlers reviews and mentions

• The Magic Nix Cache
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jun 2023

  - the caching works across branches, so for example merging a feature branch to master, if nothing changes the build on master will be very quick

  I created something similar to nix-cache for gitlab, but I had to create a dedicated runner running NixOS.

  If I could use NixOS for deployment, at that point I would just point the same binary cache to the machine and use the same derivation to build the app. Because the app was already build by CI, it would just download the compiled version. No need for artifactory or similar. In that scenario (you using poetry) you probably would just use poetry2nix to generate the application.

  If the OS is not NixOS, but you still want to deploy via nix, then IMO this[2] looks interesting, basically it packages everything in self extracting archive. That you can extract and then run the app.

  Other alternatives are these bundlers[3], which includes building toArx (works in a way similar to the previous one but pretends everything is in a single file), RPM, DEB, docker (you would have more control over it if you would use the code directly instead of a bundler though)

  And the last option (probably the most obvious one) is that you can simply just use the tool to build the package. Since you're using poetry, then you can generate a wheel from it.

  [1] https://github.com/takeda/nix-cde/blob/master/contrib/gitlab...

  [2] https://github.com/Ninlives/relocatable.nix

  [3] https://github.com/NixOS/bundlers/blob/master/flake.nix

• After 20 years are developers now ready for Nix?
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2023

  We've seen the opposite. New package managers are built with a much better understanding of the problem space because of Nix and sometimes explicitly taking ideas and concepts. This results in those new systems being far more compatible and easily integrated with Nix itself. Consider the iteration towards better and better locking in python + Node. Consider Rust/Cargo.

  There has also been sharing of ideas and collaboration between things us and bazel/buck/spack/etc. I think it is clear that we are all moving towards a similar end state, that often looks very much like Nix, or a re-invention of it.

  For things like OCI, Nix predates it, but we should start to re-use the standard. The Tvix group is exploring this and I'd suspect our sandboxing will be OCI at some point. For outputs; we make it easy to convert a Nix package into an equivalent container. Things like flatpack,AppImage,Snap should also be easy for people to output (i'm trying to collect these "transformers"/"bundlers" here: https://github.com/NixOS/bundlers).

• Nixpacks takes a source directory and produces an OCI compliant image
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Aug 2022

  Nix 3 has a dead simple, builtin CLI frontend for built packages: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/new-cli/ni...

  It uses dockerTools: https://github.com/NixOS/bundlers/blob/master/flake.nix

  maybe a bundler can be added that uses OCI tools, thus providing such a wrapper and giving a nice CLI for it

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