Allow running apps as part of CI

srid commented 1 month ago

Building derivations is just one part of CI.

Sometimes, we want to test things outside of the build lifecycle. For eg., in omnix, we want to also

Run the nix package (nix run) for the CLI to see that it behaves as one would expect, at least in basic cases, or
Run cargo tests outside of Nix (but in devShell, viz.: nix develop -c cargo test) to sidestep Nix sandboxing limitations

How can we support this in nixci, so that the above two scenarios run as part of nixci build (or, om ci?)?

(This would naturally propagate to any tools built on top of nixci; example).

srid commented 1 month ago

In omnix, we do two more steps because they are not done by nixci:

srid commented 4 weeks ago

srid commented 2 weeks ago

This will be done as part of om ci (nixci ng):

srid / nixci