GitHub - bwplotka/bingo: Like `go get` but for Go tools! CI Automating versioning of Go binaries in a nested, isolated Go modules.
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Wonder if anyone here has been using bingo for reproducible builds. I’ve found it to be really good and wish I could find similar tooling for things like python for tools like yamllint.

  • Kevin Lyda@programming.devOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Well, nix would be an entire operating system. This is just for a build system to specify the versions of the tools to use.

    • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The nixos.org website does a bad job at explaining things, but nix != NixOS. nix is a declarative package manager and build system. NixOS is a distribution built on top of it. With nix-shell, you can take a package declaration and enter a shell with build dependencies available therein.

    • imikoy [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      “An entire OS” - that is NixOS. Nix (package manager / build system) can and is often used standalone, on other Linux distributions, and by some on MacOS.

      I cannot vouch for ease of use of Nixpkgs’ Go building facilities, but at the very least it should be possible to create a necessary environment for development and compilation of a package. Nix guarantees that it is going to be reproducible.

      The main downside of using Nix would be that the declarative approach is different from the imperative one - AFAIK, there is no command to just add something to the environment (nix-shell -p does not count as it is a temporary env without a pinned Nixpkgs, so isn’t reproducible). The second would be that Nixpkgs seems to only have one version of Go and Co. at a time, so if one needs an older version of something they need to find an older version of Nixpkgs.

      edit: as I have looked up, there are actually four versions of Go - “go” is 1.20, and “go_1_*” gives 1.21, 1.19 and 1.18 (on unstable Nixpkgs). I don’t know about other pieces of the environment though.