[imincik]

The quick answer of the question "Why this project makes a sense ?" is following:

Nix is solving the principal problems of software building, distribution, deployment, configuration, supply chain security and many others in very elegant but unique way. It also comes with plenty of other unique features which doesn't exist anywhere else. The cost of this is quite steep learning and adoption curve.

geospatial-nix.today is lowering those bariers to minimum.

Why we narrowed our scope to geospatial software and services ?

Nixpkgs - the software collection built by Nix is the largest software repository on the planet, containing around 80 000 packages. You can use any of those packages via geospatial-nix, but geo software and services gets additional level of QA and maintenance. Also, we want to provide other extra features which make a sense if you are geo user or developer. I believe that we can provide higher added value if we concentrate our effort to one domain.

[freemanon]

Go post this to https://discourse.nixos.org/ and see what sort of reaction you get.

> nixpkgs - the software collection built by Nix is the largest software repository on the planet, containing around 80 000 packages. You can use any of those packages via geospatial-nix

You sound like you should be working in the marketing department rather than dev.

[febed]

Nice work! I’m new to Nix -would this tool help me build for e.g. customized GDAL deb/rpm for a specific version of Ubuntu or Centos?