Re: Add a Nix flake

On 2026-Aug-25, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> Well, "growing" could cover a multitude of possibilities. It could mean
> there was one and now there are two. Maybe there are lots out there and I at
> least just haven't heard of it. But if you want to say that there is a
> significant number of people actually contributing here who use it that
> would be all the better for some evidence.

For what it's worth, I think a descriptive/declarative mechanism for
configuring buildfarm animals would beat the current Perl-code-based
system hands down. For instance, if I want to switch an animal from
Configure to Meson, I have to essentially redo the whole config from
scratch, which is rather a mess. I'd much rather state which features I
want to be used, and then have an intermediate layer figure out which
command line options must be used.

Maybe a Nix flake system would enable something like that without too
much development effort.

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