Building contributor-friendly repositories with Devenv
summary
Workshop shows how Devenv plus Nix creates reproducible dev shells: init makes three config files and an env shell, adding one line language = "python" yields Python 3.13 with sensible defaults, adding packages pulls from Nixpkgs, and installing a service like LND auto-starts its BitcoinD dependency so both run under Devenv (not systemd). Devenv exposes env vars, entry scripts, and service control via commands such as devenv processes list, but Bitcoin version pinning for modules is not yet implemented.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:12Nix difficulty for devs
- 6:01First devenv demo
- 12:43Environment variables in devenv
- 15:55Python setup in devenv
- 20:21Running services in devenv
- 26:14Extending devenv with modules
- 28:38Q&A
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