Non-Flake Environments

Compatibility with non-flakes

We also provide a couple of experimental endpoints, default.{nix,zip}.

They are intended for usage on non-flake environments.

curl https://nix-versions.oeiuwq.com/default.nix/ruby@latest -o default.nix

nix-shell https://nix-versions.oeiuwq.com/default.zip/ruby@latest -A devShell

Note

The reason we mention them as experimental is because generating a default.nix file requires our server to download and generate a sri-checksum for fetching each tools’ nixpkgs with fetchurl. Doing so can consume resources (time and network) on our server. And given that many people are moving to using flakes, we are marking non-flakes features as experimental.