| 29 Mar 2026 |
 eveeifyeve | * Because I am currently in the process of upstreaming bundlers to nixpkgs and there is going to be makeBinaryBundle, makeAppImageBundle, makeDebBundle as apart of the bundle feature in nix. As privately spoken to tomberek about the opinion on it. | 13:41:43 |
| eveeifyeve | * Can someone tell me exactly what makeDarwinBundle does? Because I am trying to figure out if it's useful to nix bundlers. | 13:42:47 |
| eveeifyeve | * Because I am currently in the process of upstreaming bundlers to nixpkgs and there is going to be makeBinaryBundle, makeAppImageBundle, makeDebBundle to start out with as apart of the bundle feature in nix. As privately spoken to tomberek about the opinion on it. | 14:02:50 |
| eveeifyeve | * Because I am currently in the process of upstreaming bundlers to nixpkgs and there is going to be makeBinaryBundle, makeAppImageBundle, makeDebBundle to start out with as apart of the bundle feature in nix packaged in nixpkgs. As privately spoken to tomberek about the opinion on it. | 14:03:04 |
 Randy Eckenrode | Isn’t there already a stalled PR for packaging Darwin applications from archives? Why would we have a helper per archive format? | 14:03:30 |
| Randy Eckenrode | Re: makeDarwinBundle
See: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/91849ded6ed12d309e6697bea17e0bda5fdc7ad3/pkgs/build-support/make-darwin-bundle/default.nix#L1_L4
given a package with an executable and an icon, make a darwin bundle for
it. This package should be used when generating launchers for native Darwin
applications. If the package contains a .desktop file use
desktopToDarwinBundle instead.
| 14:05:08 |
| eveeifyeve | Idk. I am trying to ask this. | 14:05:21 |
| Randy Eckenrode | * Re: makeDarwinBundle
See: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/91849ded6ed12d309e6697bea17e0bda5fdc7ad3/pkgs/build-support/make-darwin-bundle/default.nix#L1_L4
given a package with an executable and an icon, make a darwin bundle for it. This package should be used when generating launchers for native Darwin applications. If the package contains a .desktop file use desktopToDarwinBundle instead.
| 14:05:28 |
| eveeifyeve | * Idk. I am trying to ask what is this and if it's related | 14:05:34 |
| eveeifyeve | I feel like this should be deprecated in 26.11 | 14:06:14 |
| eveeifyeve | * I feel like this should be deprecated in 26.11, do you agree? | 14:06:25 |
| Randy Eckenrode | https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/293498 | 14:06:32 |
| Randy Eckenrode | Why? | 14:06:38 |
| eveeifyeve | No see of need and there is an alternative. | 14:07:07 |
| Randy Eckenrode | It’s to create wrapper app bundles for applications that just have a binary and an icon. That’s a distinct use case from generating wrappers for .desktop files. | 14:08:25 |
| eveeifyeve | Can't you just do that with the install command? | 14:09:02 |
| Randy Eckenrode | No. This is for applications that ship only a bare $out/bin/<exe>. Not everything that builds and runs on Darwin bothers to create a nice app bundle for it. | 14:10:35 |
| eveeifyeve | So is this useful relating to nix bundlers? | 14:12:30 |
| Randy Eckenrode | There’s probably an argument that all the ways to make app bundles should use a common set of primitives. I don’t think they do right now. | 14:12:32 |
| Randy Eckenrode | What do bundlers do? | 14:12:57 |
| eveeifyeve | bundler is a function over a value (useally a drv) that produces another drv. | 14:14:10 |
| eveeifyeve | So like hello, produces a docker image. | 14:14:24 |
| eveeifyeve | * So like hello, produces a docker image with hello. | 14:14:34 |
| eveeifyeve | Which is based on the nix bundle command, which it's intended usecase is to make anything work outside of the store. | 14:15:14 |
| eveeifyeve | * Which is based on the nix bundle command, which it's intended usecase is to make anything work outside of the store/without nix. | 14:15:24 |
| Randy Eckenrode | What is the user-facing output of, e.g., makeBinaryBundle? | 14:15:26 |
| Randy Eckenrode | Ah, there it is. What’s the expected level of support? | 14:16:07 |
| eveeifyeve | I am not too sure, I would assume none. | 14:16:46 |
| eveeifyeve | * I am not too sure, I would assume none outside of the store/without nix. | 14:17:04 |
| Randy Eckenrode | Why does this need to be upstreamed (vs. remaining in a third party repo that can iterate more quickly and not be tied to nixpkgs releases)? | 14:17:16 |
