I wrote up a very simple nix package deriviation for Daml. I wanted to check if this is something that would be interesting to the Daml team or others you know?

Hi @ryan , Thanks for doing this! We don’t have a strong need for this ourselves and don’t currently have the bandwidth or expertise to maintain a Nix derivation, but we have seen a few people asking for one. I’m not personally very familiar with Nix, but a couple comments based on reading through …

Sure thing! I believe a JRE is sufficient to run the Daml SDK, in case Nix makes a distinction between JDK and JRE. Thanks for the suggestion. Using jre works! Given that, within a Nix environment, we cannot install new Daml versions, it would be nice if there was a way to choose which versi…

Desire for daml-sdk nix package?

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ali-abrar January 25, 2024, 4:50pm 4

We’ve added some nix support for daml and canton, described here: Daml + Nix

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Daml + Nix Outreach	0	219	January 25, 2024
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[#nix] .lock file under sdk directory preventing daml to work App Development	3	264	May 31, 2022
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Desire for daml-sdk nix package?

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