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RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thanks for the suggestions. As an update:
- I spent a few hours playing about with Nix; it’s really cool, definitely a very interesting idea but the “time required to learn the tool” to “time saved by using the tool” to “time spent fixing things when it turns out you don’t know the tool as well as you thought” ratio isn’t looking great right now
- I’ve reworked one of my repos to use rtx - it’s not perfect, but it’s doing what I want without much fuss, so probably going to go with this for now
Andy@programming.dev 1 year ago
Great! If you get a chance, I’d be interested to hear about your rtx complaints.
RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Tbh, I think my issues are less with rtx itself and more the plugins I’m using and the constraints imposed by the asdf plugin structure.
I ran into issues where poorly written plugins could fail to install, but rtx wouldn’t recognise the issue and if I re-ran “rtx install” a second time it would tell me that the runtimes were all up to date. I’ll see if I can put together a GitHub issue describing it in more detail.
It’d be nice if there was a simple way to reference a local directory as a plugin for a project rather than having to publish a separate git repo.
Generally it’s a really well built tool and the docs are excellent, my complaints are nitpicks