Build releases for arm and darwin?

[marcusramberg]

For pre-commit hooks and such, would be nice if the releases provided binaries for the most common platforms.

[infinisil]

Had a team meeting today, no concrete progress, but some discussion. The notes are a bit ad-hoc 😄:

• Looked into building more release artifacts
  • More automated releases, could copy somewhat from https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-check-by-name/blob/main/scripts/release.sh
• GitHub actions?
  • Problem: No ARM
    • Could use cross compilation
    • Nix-community ARM builders?
      • Only for nix-community GitHub org
    • Larger runners?
      • Only for paid GitHub plans, not sure if NixOS org has access
• Hydra (change release.nix)?
  • Odd usecase of wanting a build without blocking releases, but could be done
• General problem: Static build requires building GHC, takes some time, should be fine in CI though
  • Could also make Hydra just build a static GHC
• Dynamic executable, but nix-bundle that?
  • Problem: Only supports Linux
• Don't bother with static executables?
  • Motivation for having them: No binary for v0.6.0 release? #139
• Build static executable without Nix?
  • Feels like a step back, less reproducible

[nixos-discourse]

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/formatting-team-meeting-2024-06-11/46878/1