NixOS/nixfmt

Deprecate Hackage package

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infinisil commented

Nixfmt is currently on Hackage, but I don't think that's necessary:

  • While pkgs.nixfmt is currently being populated by Hackage, there's no reason this would be necessary to build a Haskell package in Nix. Indeed the new pkgs.nixfmt-rfc-style works without Hackage
  • Nixfmt doesn't really have an API surface that would be useful enough on its own. I consider it an end-user application. If some useful and reusable API surface emerges from the codebase, we can still consider packaging that on Hackage.

So I'd propose deprecating the Hackage package and not updating it anymore. This way nixfmt on Hackage will always be the legacy Serokell version.

This will remove a bunch of maintenance burden from the formatter team.

Ping @Sereja313 @Lucus16 @yorickvP

Sereja313 commented

I agree

dasJ commented

Somebody from the maintainers team probably has to do this

infinisil commented

Yeah I could do that, should I do it already or should we wait until we have a first initial release? It might also be a good idea to update the Hackage page with a bit of information about the deprecation.

dasJ commented

We should also move the nixfmt-classic package in nixpkgs first to make sure it doesn't point to a non-existing hackage package.

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