Nix(ify): Packaging and Hardening.

[jaoleal]

What is this topic for ?

This topic has the point to serve as go-to when one needs to understand the status of the subject inside the project.
People may:

1. Ask questions about the subject.
2. Propose changes to subject implementation approach.
3. Propose new functionalities that subject can provide.
4. Question the necessity of already proposed functionalities.

What is exactly the subject ?

Nix is a package manager that uses Nix expressions to build and distribute packages.
You can know nix better in its Website.

What the subject will do inside Floresta ?

As defined in the last bi-weekly [04 March, 2025], Nix will be responsible for:

• 1. Packaging the whole Floresta project, offering its library and binaries.

  • Offers everything that one may need to accomplish things on floresta.
  • Separate floresta binaries and libs.

• 2. Hardening Floresta Continuous Integration trough its check scripts.

  • Add the sanity tests. (formating and linting).
  • Add tests. (every test runned against rust code). chosen tests and its respective just commands: format lint test-features test-wkspc test-unit test-doc.

• 3. Create an attestation where users can verify that produced binaries are always the same and equal to others users binaries.

Related Issues and Pull Requests.

#335

#332

#391

[jaoleal]

Nix packaging was moved to floresta-flake