Re: Add a Nix flake

On 24.08.26 18:58, Greg Burd wrote:
> The reason to carry it in-tree: Nix users are a growing segment of the
> PostgreSQL developer base across Linux, macOS, and increasingly the BSDs and
> even illumos. Today each of them keeps a private flake to hack on Postgres, I
> have one, and I know I'm not alone.

I don't know. Over time, people made similar arguments about Homebrew,
Docker, and there will be more after this. People who are interested in
this can band together and maintain it among themselves.

> These private copies drift, disagree on
> which features to enable, and have to be re-derived every time someone new
> wants to contribute from a Nix machine. A single blessed flake in the tree
> gives everyone the same reproducible starting point and one place to keep it
> current, the same argument that motivates the .editorconfig and CI files we
> already ship.

I don't think these are good comparisons. A Nix configuration is
probably of interest to on the order of 1% of developers, whereas these
other things are relevant to most developers, and also importantly,
changes can be verified easily by anyone, without having to learn about
some new platform or tool.