Graphviz + Nix... Any interest?

Hi all,

Recently, in orthogonal efforts, I’ve been trying to pick up Nix and seeing if I can hack on Graphviz (r.e. vt100 output format). On a lark, I decided to smush these efforts together :upside_down_face: .

I’ve got the beginnings of a Nix Flake that lets me “enter” a development environment for hacking on Graphviz. Would anyone be interested in me sharing it? Feedback would be appreciated, too :smiley: .

I can imagine a world where it would make sense to include a flake.nix file in the Graphviz repo itself so that new/potential contributors can easily spin up a sane+known+sandboxy environment. Let me know if that sounds interesting enough to warrant any cleanup/onboarding; I’d expect it would cost at least some time from Graphviz developers in the form of code review. I want to verify an appetite for Nix things before opening PRs out of the blue :sweat_smile: .

Thanks!

I don’t think any of the Graphviz devs use Nix, but maybe some of the users do? I don’t know much about what a nix flake does.