Handling development packages like languageserver

[telegott]

Hey!

First of all, thanks for this great effort. I'm just trying it out now, but it seems to fill a gap sorely needed, which was handled much better by other languages like Ruby (rbenv + bundler) or Python (pyenv + poetry) .
I haven't seen yet a functionality to separate out development packages like languageserver or test packages like testthat, which are relevant for CI, but should not be part of a deployed project. Is there an easy way to do this already, or, if not, is this a feature that is upcoming?

Best regards,
Michael

[b-rodrigues]

Hi Michael,

thanks for your kind words and question!
As of now, this is not handled, but we could probably do something using nix develop I guess. We would need to explore this further. Thanks!

[b-rodrigues]

Ok so there is something to handle this now, but in specific case. If you use targets on CI, then using tar_nix_ga() places a script to run a targets pipeline on CI the root project's .github/workflows folder. This action contains a step to remove IDEs and the languageserver package:

rix/inst/extdata/run-pipeline.yaml

Line 48 in 4608934

- name: Prepare default.nix for CI