jetbrains EAP products

[Suyashtnt]

Project description The EAP versions of jetbrains products (such as IDEA, Rider, Webstorm, etc). These are experimental/beta versions of various jetbrains products

Metadata

• homepage URL: https://www.jetbrains.com/resources/eap/
• source URL: Depends on the product
• license: unfree
• platforms: linux, darwin

[Suyashtnt]

@edwtjo @mic92 since you are the maintainers of jetbrains packages

[raymens]

I've started adding these (clion & rider for now) in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/219902

[Fryuni]

I just found this issue by accident. Since the EAP updates extremely frequently and is not always available (when a new GA version is just released, there is no EAP version), I think adding them to nixpkgs would bring more problems than solutions.

This can be easily achieved with a simple override. This could be exposed as a function allowing the consumer only to pass version and sha256, but that implies that every version would work. Almost every version works, but sometimes there are changes to the JRE.

I'm doing this on my configurations, if anyone wants to copy that feel free:

https://github.com/Fryuni/config-files/blob/7decca34ea4e90c030708b59406337f4345bac0c/overlay/jetbrains.nix

In that commit pycharm-professional is using the EAP version. The URLs in the comments are where to get the EAP version number, which can be used interchangeably with the release versions.

[viperML]

After some discoussion in the NixOS discord, apparently you can use a netfilter such an EAP IDE can't phone back to jetbrains, skipping the update check.

This is done by @spikespaz in their dotfiles with ja-netfilter:

https://github.com/spikespaz/dotfiles/blob/master/users/jacob/programs/jetbrains.nix https://github.com/spikespaz/dotfiles/blob/master/packages/ja-netfilter/base.nix

Perhaps it could be convenient to have the netfilter wrappers in nixpkgs?

[viperML]

I don't know if this is against their TOS or not, so just wanted to open up the discussion.

[spikespaz]

Using this source code requires a subscription service. To me.