feat: add nix support(#80)

[ICE-GB]

Thanks to (#80) for the example, I did some nix related work, but I have no experience in doing that before this, this pr is still not perfect, I hope someone who is really familiar with nix and rust will help to improve it!

[ICE-GB]

Regarding CACHIX_AUTH_TOKEN, you need to register cachix, create a binary cache called lan-mouse, and create an auth token in the settings so that this workflow can upload built packages to https://lan-mouse.cachix.org/

[feschber]

I will read up on nix packaging a bit. And the cachix token should probably be stored in a secret.

[feschber]

@ICE-GB @PedroHLC can you give me an update on this? Is this PR still relevant if its in the main nix repos?

Sorry I could not get back to this any sooner

[PedroHLC]

Hi @feschber, having a flake.nix is worth if the project has several pre-releases tags (we avoid those in nixpkgs) or has a very active development that we cannot follow because of the bureaucracy of reviewing and delays between Hydra deployment cycles. If you believe that's not the case, you can totally skip it (and close this).

Presently, with nix installed in any distro, one can run nix run nixpkgs#lan-mouse and use a pre-compiled lan-mouse v0.6.0. Meanwhile, with the flake.nix here, one can nix run 'github:feschber/lan-mouse, this will (1) fetch latest artifacts from cachix, (2) or if it is missing, automatically, clone the repo (in its latest commit), download all dependencies, build it, and run it. As long as the flake.nix's packages is up-to-date with the dependencies list.

[feschber]

@ICE-GB I dont have access to the settings for the cache. Can you give me the permissions to generate an access token?

[ICE-GB]

@ICE-GB I dont have access to the settings for the cache. Can you give me the permissions to generate an access token?

Please let me know your cachix account and I'll transfer the permissions to you

[feschber]

I signed up via GitHub so same email as on my profile.

[feschber]

If that does not work I will create an account

[ICE-GB]

I signed up via GitHub so same email as on my profile.

Now you should have permission to try

[ICE-GB]

And I'm trying to transfer the cache to you.

[feschber]

It still gives me a 401 on the settings page (https://app.cachix.org/cache/lan-mouse/settings/authtokens)

[ICE-GB]

I just deleted it. You can create a new one.

[feschber]

Looks like it worked, I reran the build job