Note that CI fails.

@siriobalmelli You did not follow my requests. Please read the link I gave you to nix.dev, and please don't use with python.pkgs for such a broad scope.

@siriobalmelli You did not follow my requests. Please read the link I gave you to nix.dev, and please don't use with python.pkgs for such a broad scope.

My apologies, I messed that one up.

Force-pushed with a specific use of python3Packages. or with python3Packages; in each case.

It is a bit questionable whether we should include this package, see https://discourse.nixos.org/t/we-need-more-defined-guidelines-for-package-inclusion/3592. Is anybody other than you using this @siriobalmelli? Alternatively you could also use NUR to distribute the package.

It is a bit questionable whether we should include this package, see https://discourse.nixos.org/t/we-need-more-defined-guidelines-for-package-inclusion/3592. Is anybody other than you using this @siriobalmelli? Alternatively you could also use NUR to distribute the package.

I see what you mean.

This particular package has been around since 2018 and is in use downstream of me. You will see in the project history that a nix derivation was first added in day 2 of development.

Part of the motivation in trying to get it accepted into nixpkgs is so those downstreams don't have to always point to https://github.com/siriobalmelli-foss/nixpkgs or use a custom import like:

  replacement = import (builtins.fetchGit {
    url = "https://siriobalmelli@github.com/siriobalmelli/replacement.git";
    ref = "master";
    }) {};

Re: maintenance I don't foresee a problem - Nix is in heavy use in our shop, I am a regular contributor to nixpkgs and I'm signing off as the maintainer of this package: I can always be pinged if it becomes a problem later.

In getting adoption for Nix with other engineers, it would be of enormous aid having them be able to install Nix as per standard and then just run nix-env -iA "nixpkgs.replacement"

Based on the above, please consider merging this: it makes it that much more productive to contribute to nixpkgs in my own time if I can leverage the same nixpkgs to improve efficiency on other projects :)

Sounds good then!