I'm kinda disappointed this isn't a utility for storing notes in the Nix store (for some reason that is wonderful, I'm sure!)... :P

@GrahamcOfBorg build nixnote

Failure on x86_64-darwin (full log)

Package ‘nixnote-2.0.2’ in /private/var/lib/ofborg/checkout/repo/38dca4e3aa6bca43ea96d2fcc04e8229/builder/lnl7-mac/pkgs/applications/misc/nixnote/default.nix:31 is not supported on ‘x86_64-darwin’, refusing to evaluate.

a) For `nixos-rebuild` you can set
  { nixpkgs.config.allowBroken = true; }
in configuration.nix to override this.

b) For `nix-env`, `nix-build`, `nix-shell` or any other Nix command you can add
  { allowBroken = true; }
to ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix.

I honestly am unsure, should this perhaps be called "nixnote2" instead? Upstream maybe prefers that it looks like, but split on repology.org is 4 and 4: https://repology.org/metapackages/?search=nixnote .

Only brought it up once saw the installed binary was called "nixnote2".

TIL about repology.org :)

good point, I'll rename it: even if it is a 4/4 on repology, the most relevant distros (IMO) adopted nixnote2.

Thanks for iterating on this, sorry for all the one-at-a-time comments!

This builds and seems to work at a glance, although I don't have an evernote account. (Yet? This app does look neat....)

Poking a bit it seems upstream's install rule leaves a lot to be desired:

• The ".desktop" refers to an icon that isn't installed (would be in /share/pixmaps/nixnote2.png)
• The "about" page says VERSION instead of the right version
• Themes are not available, presumably we need to copy over theme.ini?
• (only mention because I see this in the script below) man page not installed

In particular there are various scripts for installation and packaging, this one for example seems to have steps to address each of the above and a number of other things that may or may not be needed/useful:

https://github.com/baumgarr/nixnote2/blob/master/package_scripts/copy_files.sh#L56

Since hunspell is a dep--does spell checking work? Not sure if that's usually automatic or if something more is needed.

Hmm, not sure how to best handle these things reasonably cleanly. Can you look at this a bit?
If it's too difficult we can do something like copy the most important steps into a postInstall or something...

FWIW, here's what Arch does: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=nixnote2
(which at a glance addresses the theme.ini installation but all of the above issues, although I don't know).

I link it to point out that they're doing something re:plugins and optional webcam support? I wouldn't worry about webcam support unless that was important to you, but thought I'd bring it to your attention in case that's something you would like :).

thanks for taking a look!
My launcher is dmenu, so usually I don't notice some of those details.

hunspell is a build dep required even when the hunspell plugin is not built.

I'll tweak some knobs later!

You've done a great job, don't mean to be a nag. I definitely don't think plugins are a priority!

good point, I'll rename it: even if it is a 4/4 on repology, the most relevant distros (IMO) adopted nixnote2.

Agreed, I'll merge it into single nixnote2 on repology as well.

@GrahamcOfBorg build nixnote2

Failure on x86_64-darwin (full log)

Package ‘nixnote2-2.0.2’ in /private/var/lib/ofborg/checkout/repo/38dca4e3aa6bca43ea96d2fcc04e8229/builder/lnl7-mac/pkgs/applications/misc/nixnote2/default.nix:31 is not supported on ‘x86_64-darwin’, refusing to evaluate.

a) For `nixos-rebuild` you can set
  { nixpkgs.config.allowBroken = true; }
in configuration.nix to override this.

b) For `nix-env`, `nix-build`, `nix-shell` or any other Nix command you can add
  { allowBroken = true; }
to ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix.

Success on aarch64-linux (full log)

post-installation fixup
shrinking RPATHs of ELF executables and libraries in /nix/store/rn5diyhizc9kglyhzh6n9bndr695m1rg-nixnote2-2.0.2
shrinking /nix/store/rn5diyhizc9kglyhzh6n9bndr695m1rg-nixnote2-2.0.2/bin/nixnote2
strip is /nix/store/lvx1acn1ig1j2km8jds5x3ggh3f2wa8v-binutils-2.28.1/bin/strip
stripping (with command strip and flags -S) in /nix/store/rn5diyhizc9kglyhzh6n9bndr695m1rg-nixnote2-2.0.2/bin
patching script interpreter paths in /nix/store/rn5diyhizc9kglyhzh6n9bndr695m1rg-nixnote2-2.0.2
checking for references to /build in /nix/store/rn5diyhizc9kglyhzh6n9bndr695m1rg-nixnote2-2.0.2...
postPatchMkspecs
postPatchMkspecs
/nix/store/rn5diyhizc9kglyhzh6n9bndr695m1rg-nixnote2-2.0.2

Success on x86_64-linux (full log)

post-installation fixup
shrinking RPATHs of ELF executables and libraries in /nix/store/6prwql0dqycd3sy9fbh5c66vwjqypxq1-nixnote2-2.0.2
shrinking /nix/store/6prwql0dqycd3sy9fbh5c66vwjqypxq1-nixnote2-2.0.2/bin/nixnote2
strip is /nix/store/b0zlxla7dmy1iwc3g459rjznx59797xy-binutils-2.28.1/bin/strip
stripping (with command strip and flags -S) in /nix/store/6prwql0dqycd3sy9fbh5c66vwjqypxq1-nixnote2-2.0.2/bin 
patching script interpreter paths in /nix/store/6prwql0dqycd3sy9fbh5c66vwjqypxq1-nixnote2-2.0.2
checking for references to /tmp/nix-build-nixnote2-2.0.2.drv-0 in /nix/store/6prwql0dqycd3sy9fbh5c66vwjqypxq1-nixnote2-2.0.2...
postPatchMkspecs
postPatchMkspecs
/nix/store/6prwql0dqycd3sy9fbh5c66vwjqypxq1-nixnote2-2.0.2