Nix-based build / deploy pipeline

[blaggacao]

I’m a Nix wizard.

I plan to get involved in the PX4 projects.

What I usually do to learn a software stack is to package it with nix.

If I end up doing that, should I stay away from desiring to upstream my work or is that something of interest and value to core maintainers?

Just a little heads-up forth and back would be nice.

[blaggacao]

XRefs:

• Full Gazebo simulation support · Issue #10 · ArcturusNavigation/arcturus_nix · GitHub

• Either $50 bounty or $50/hr pair coding bounty: XtDrone - Jobs - NixOS Discourse

• GitHub - lopsided98/nix-ros-overlay: ROS overlay for the Nix package manager

• GitHub - tpwrules/ardupilot-dev-flake

• nix run nixpkgs#flightgear

Implementation

1. (close to) reproducible build environment

Nix build environment

2. …

[blaggacao]

Coordinated effort to package gazebosim in nixpkgs from the arcturus team [WIP] gz-sim and dependencies: init by ShamrockLee · Pull Request #394757 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

[Drew_Ulick]

This is interesting. Any plans to package the PX4 build completely?