std setup

[blaggacao]

Install nix (good version) in single user mode

(multi user is for experts and linux only and not worth it -- see also troubles with post-build-hook environments)

also set std completion in your favorite shell

[blaggacao]

complete implementation blocked on carapace-sh/carapace#649

But the ground work can be started.

[michalrus]

Hey, just a quick question, so the end user will be able to run std setup, and it will install Nix in single-user mode on their machine? Or is this for the GitHub Action?

[blaggacao]

Hey, thanks for the question.

Yes, this is mainly meant for the end user.

The motivation is to provide a happy/easy path to get started, but without sending the user on a "Nix(OS) Community Voyage", as this can, despite recent improvements in comms, for certain user personas (while not for all!) have a highly discouraging effect.

(At least that voyage is only suitable for experienced adventures and is not recommended to be your first vacations on a foreign continent)

For CI, we should aim to provide suitable modules for some of the more popular CIs, such as https://github.com/divnix/std-action (for GH Actions).