Cant find corect syntax for shell.nix

[abathur]

This is, unfortunately, a great example of what I had in mind when I wrote this recently:

@abathur

FWIW, I’ve come to see lint/format checks in the check/installCheck phases as a minor antipattern. Unlike a normal test suite that’s developing with your codebase, version bumps of these tools in nixpkgs can cause scripts to stop ~building even when their source is unchanged.

This can be easy enough to cope with if they’re only in your local config, but it can be a chore if they aren’t (i.e., they’re in nixpkgs, third-party code, or even your own code that you’ve extracted into a separate project/flake for others to depend on).

I think it’s ideal if you can run these checks as part of your development process and not otherwise. If the inline scripts are their own package/derivation (as with writeScriptBin) I’d probably just check these from another derivation that depends on them. If I had to put one in a package’s check/test phases, I’d probably guard it behind an argument that defaults to false and have my own process for building the package with it set to true.

You might be able to use overrideAttrs to set doCheck = false until upstream responds.