Will https://install.lix.systems/lix be unchanging with updates #43

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opened 2025-04-02 19:05:28 +00:00 by dwt · 4 comments

dwt commented

2025-04-02 19:05:28 +00:00

I am currently working on a homebrew cask for lix to make it easy for homebrew users to also install lix, and perhaps get as infected by it as I have become.

This package could be really low maintenance, if that script at https://install.lix.systems/lix does not change with updated versions for lix.

It looks like it shouldn't change with lix releases, but maybe I'm missing something?

Of course I would also love a review of the built code, maybe I'm doing something horribly wrong.

I am [currently working on a homebrew cask for lix](https://github.com/dwt/homebrew-cask/blob/lix-add-cask/Casks/l/lix.rb) to make it easy for homebrew users to also install lix, and perhaps get as infected by it as I have become. This package could be really low maintenance, if that script at https://install.lix.systems/lix does not change with updated versions for lix. It looks like it shouldn't change with lix releases, but maybe I'm missing something? Of course I would also love a review of the built code, maybe I'm doing something horribly wrong.

dwt commented

2025-04-02 19:45:51 +00:00

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In a discussion on the #lix matrix channel, @K900 expressed a very strong sentiment against using such an unversioned shortcut URL.

Which I can understand with the nix ecosystem. That would mean one pull request to homebrew for each update of lix - they don't happen so often so that would be ok, but that seems to be the tradeoff.

Or perhaps I am missing something?

In a discussion on the #lix matrix channel, @K900 expressed a very strong sentiment against using such an unversioned shortcut URL. Which I can understand with the nix ecosystem. That would mean one pull request to homebrew for each update of lix - they don't happen so often so that would be ok, but that seems to be the tradeoff. Or perhaps I am missing something?

dwt commented

2025-04-02 19:51:16 +00:00

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⁦I am leaning towards getting the pull request to homebrew going, with the addendum, that as soon as the lix project has versioned urls to the installers, and perhaps a url where the current version can be read from - the homebrew package will updgrade to that.⁦

@maintainers: I am open to creating a new bug to track providing versioned urls for the installers.

jade commented

2025-04-02 22:30:11 +00:00

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The upgrade story for Lix with the installer is not great (slash doesn't really exist? unsure). Currently the supported upgrade path is to use nix upgrade-nix. Again this isn't great and we're aware of it.

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dwt commented

2025-04-04 16:41:52 +00:00

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@jade I have added a caveat to the package that points users to https://lix.systems/install/.

@jade [I have added a caveat to the package that points users to https://lix.systems/install/](https://lix.systems/install/).