I've been working for a long time towards automatic nix dependencies for
neovim plugins (using luarocks rockspecs to discover the said
dependencies).
This is an initial commit to help me complete the missing bits.
buildNeovimPluginFrom2Nix is right now a placeholder which helps me test
in my fork a version that does a flat install of luarocks.
the vim updater will now check for attributes with the same name in the lua package set,
if that's the case the script will generate buildNeovimPluginFrom2Nix.
This simplifies usages and makes the default value consistent.
In a few cases, the default value was interpreted to be `false`,
but this is useless, because virtually nobody will explicitly
set `allowAliases = true;`.
The current wrapper only includes vim, gvim and the man pages
(optionally). This rewrite distinguishes two scenarios, which I expect
cover the majority of use cases:
- standalone mode, when `name != "vim"`, means the user already has a
vim in scope and only wants to add a customized version with a
different name. In this case we only include wrappers for `/bin/*vim`.
- non-standalone mode, when `name == "vim"`, means the user expects a
normal vim package that uses the specified configuration. In this case
we include everything in the original derivation, with wrappers for
all the executables that accept a vimrc.
update.py and its companion update-shell.nix need to know where they are, else
they can't find the root default.nix of Nixpkgs. Because of this, I further
added a small piece of documentation about those path-dependent pieces of code.
Mr Hedgehog