| ▲ | chuckadams 3 hours ago | |
Mise is pretty nice, I'd recommend it over all the other gazillion version-manager things out there, but it's not without its own weak spots: I tried mise for a php project, neither of the backends available for php had a binary for macos, and both of them failed to build it. I now use a flake.nix, along with direnv and `use flake`. The nix language definitely makes for some baffling boilerplate around the dependencies list, but devs unfamiliar with nix can ignore it and just paste in the package name from nixpkgs search. There's also jbadeau/mise-nix that lets you use flakes in mise, but I figured at that point I may as well just use flake.nix. | ||
| ▲ | peterldowns 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
The beauty of mise is that as long as someone is hosting a precompiled binary for you, it's easy to get it. I just repro'd and yeah, `mise use php` fails for me on my machine because I don't have any dev headers. But looks like there's an easy workaround using the `ubi` downloader: https://github.com/jdx/mise/discussions/4720#discussioncomme... or see the first comment on this thread to see a way to explicitly specify where to find the binaries for each platform: https://github.com/jdx/mise/discussions/4720#discussioncomme... Having these kind of "eject" options is one of the reasons I really appreciate Mise. Not sure this would work for you but I'd rather be able to do this than have to manage/support everyone on my dev team installing and maintaining Nix. | ||