CLI rewrite / improve dependency management

DavHau commented 3 years ago

I want to rewrite the mach-nix CLI mainly to get rid of the the self baked dependency management contained in the current cli tool. The plan is:

add nix with flakes as a mandatory dependency
have mach-nix init as a minimal code generator for a flake
other mach-nix ... commands should mostly be wrappers around nix flakes ....
automatically initialize flake-compat.nix for compatibility with older nix versions

this should not be necessary anymore afterwards: https://github.com/DavHau/mach-nix/issues/246

bjornfor commented 3 years ago

So this is only about the CLI? Because I'm unable to use flakes in general at this time. I'd like to continue writing nix exprs using mach-nix and stable nix, but the CLI can be flakes.

DavHau commented 3 years ago

Just the CLI. I won't deprecate the normal nix interface until nix flakes is officially stable for at least a while.

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