Question to #nixos / #nix crowd.
Suppose I have a #flake lock and I want to make sure that the software I wrote will live without maintenance for decades?
I made a system with a lot of arcane dependencies in 2012. But thanks to it being 100% #Erlang, it still works, even though all the libraries that it depend on are not maintained.
It still fetches snapshots from #git, Erlang VM using a specialised tool to install any Erlang VM version and just works!
How do I ensure that the sources that I rely on to evaluate a #nix flake persist?
https://gist.github.com/cognivore/db451216e790dda18e6f787491b00040
cc: @solene
@jonn @solene That's assuming Flakes doesn't change too much as the feature stabilizes. Changes, if any, will be superficial syntax.
I know @matthewcroughan has a source copying solution called marsnix, or is that too much geared towards nixpkgs?
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