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Eelco Dolstra 2b8c63f303 Add 'nix dev-shell' and 'nix print-dev-env' command
'nix dev-shell' is intended to replace nix-shell. It supports flakes,
e.g.

  $ nix dev-shell nixpkgs:hello

starts a bash shell providing an environment for building 'hello'.

Like Lorri (and unlike nix-shell), it computes the build environment
by building a modified top-level derivation that writes the
environment after running $stdenv/setup to $out and exits. This
provides some caching, so it's faster than nix-shell in some cases
(especially for packages with lots of dependencies, where the setup
script takes a long time).

There also is a command 'nix print-dev-env' that prints out shell code
for setting up the build environment in an existing shell, e.g.

  $ . <(nix print-dev-env nixpkgs:hello)

https://github.com/tweag/nix/issues/21
2019-05-02 20:22:14 +02:00