Python ambee is a simple client library for a proprietary sass iot service.
I guess they want to control exactly how their users are using their service.
Yet the author is an admin on the HomeAssistant community forum, one of only 6. Presumably his other contributions to the project justify those privileges, and he did not shut down the passive-aggressive thread some nixOs folks started there, it was another admin (the founder of HomeAssistant).
This sucks for nixOs, but it looks like community incompatibility means they won’t be able to support HomeAssistant at all.
Some context: Frenck is a core developer on the Home Assistant project, and was hired by Nabu Casa (the company the project's founder founded to try to create a sustainable funding source via adding some optional value-add services) to develop for Home Assistant full time.
If instead of packing these separately, the home assistant nixpkg for home assistant simply downloaded all the required dependencies from PyPi, and verified them against a maintained list of checksums as part of the nixpkg (for reproducibility), then frenck probably would not object to that, since the last I knew the some of the official home assistant docker images do preinstall the requirements for the majority of plugins like that.
I'm suspect frenck's real concern comes from any possibility of modifications in the packaged version, combined with any possibility of nix allowing home assistant to be used with a version that is not an exact match of what home assistant specifies.
Alternatively If this could be packages as some form of home-assistant sub-package that was guaranteed to always match the PyPi version specified for home assistant exactly, without any mixing and matching, it would likely allay his concerns. Unfortunately he has not spelled out his concerns fully, so I cannot know for sure. I also have no idea if this is at all feasible in the nix packaging system.
fmajid|4 years ago
This sucks for nixOs, but it looks like community incompatibility means they won’t be able to support HomeAssistant at all.
jsmith45|4 years ago
If instead of packing these separately, the home assistant nixpkg for home assistant simply downloaded all the required dependencies from PyPi, and verified them against a maintained list of checksums as part of the nixpkg (for reproducibility), then frenck probably would not object to that, since the last I knew the some of the official home assistant docker images do preinstall the requirements for the majority of plugins like that.
I'm suspect frenck's real concern comes from any possibility of modifications in the packaged version, combined with any possibility of nix allowing home assistant to be used with a version that is not an exact match of what home assistant specifies.
Alternatively If this could be packages as some form of home-assistant sub-package that was guaranteed to always match the PyPi version specified for home assistant exactly, without any mixing and matching, it would likely allay his concerns. Unfortunately he has not spelled out his concerns fully, so I cannot know for sure. I also have no idea if this is at all feasible in the nix packaging system.