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This enables users who use the Nix package manager (see https://nixos.org/explore.html) to easily try out jless, and include it in a machine or user environment.
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I'm not sure if you'll want this or not (absolutely no problem if not!) but offering it in case.
The Nix package manager runs on Linux and macOS, often in addition to the system package manager. One of its features ("flakes") enables people to use packages even when not managed by the central package repo. With this addition, for example, someone can try out jless simply by running
(which if not already cached, downloads and builds the executable). More usefully, the "overlay" in
flake.nixmakes it easy to incorporate jless into a nix-managed reproducible+declarative environment (whether that's just a user environment, or an entire linux system).These two files here don't have to change with the usual release cycle (eg they pick up the name/version from
Cargo.toml). So they shouldn't be a maintenance burden, just additive.