this replaces niv with nix flakes, attempting to preserve the old
structure as much as possible. Notable caveats:
- I'm not sure if flake inputs expose version information anywhere, so
the version in pkgs/mattermost/default.nix is now hardcoded.
Confusingly, this appears to trigger a rebuild. Maybe I've missed something.
- a lot of the old-style host.nix & deploy.nix machinery in nix-hexchen
does not work with flakes, and their newer replacements are not exposed
by upstream; I've put basic imitations of the relevant parts in this repo
- (in particular, directories in hosts/ won't become deployable configs
automatically)
- parts of the code are now probably more complicated than they'd have to be
- old variables names were preserved; confusingly, this means the flake
inputs are still called "sources"
Intended for KontraIAA; requirements were that it should be a simple and
non-confusing as possible.
I tried both KiwiIRC and thelounge, and found both horrible to
package (a fact not helped by the somewhat opaque structure of
nixpkgs.nodePackages, which does contain a version of thelounge but
will apparently ignore overrides of the src attribute).
Instead, this now contains a very hacky version of thelounge, which
merely takes the already-built version from nixpkgs and glues some extra
css to it which hides potentially confusing fields.
Things hidden on the "connect" screen:
- the "name" field (since thelounge offers "nick" "name" and "realname"
by default, which seems too much for something embedded on a website)
- the "I have a password" checkbox
Things hidden on the general view:
- the button to open the side panel (the panel itself is not hidden,
and will appear by itself on wider layouts), so that users will only
see that one channel
- the "channel options" menu (which includes a "leave channel" option
which would effectively break the webchat)
Things not addressed:
- thelounge has autocompletion for /join /leave, etc. Do we want to
disable that as well?
- It would probably useful to suppress all the "x joined the channel"
messages. Thelounge supports this, but apparently doesn't support
setting it as default?
Misc:
- for now, users will be connected to #thelounge on libera.chat, which
appears to be okay with being used as an experimental channel
- I allowed prefetching link previews, but only on the server's side
(i.e. users' browsers won't fetch content from arbitrary sites)
- not yet tested on hainich, but should work (tested in a NixOS
container)
- currently assumes a "webchat.voc.hacc.space" domain (I think we had a
voc domain? but I forgot where it is …)
nixos and its concepts/service management/update mechanism don't play nice with minecraft
In general some things I wanted to do (e.g. a map) are to spikiely resource intensive to run on a server meant to provide other services consistently
A replacement will be provided soon™
this is a workaround to be able to use java 11 with the
minecraft-server module
minecraft calls for jre_headless, which is still java 8
newer java version don't ship jre, which now have to be custom built or
the jdk used
lots of fancy new stuff, but most importantly: we no longer import all
of my user config, just the very base.
none of that fancy stuff is active right now, this should mostly be a
no-op unless we do the same restructure that i have just done in my
nixfiles here as well.
stuebinm
hexchen