Nix packaging question

[mevatron]

First off thanks for making this tool! It worked great for flashing my CB3S chip with ESPHome 😁 I am a NixOS user, and wanted to make your tool available to the wider Nix community, so I have a PR up here for that: NixOS/nixpkgs#363371

I was curious if you knew if the py-datastruct changes in v2.0.0 would be a large breaking change for this project or not?

Thanks for your help!

[kuba2k2]

DataStruct in bk7231tools is only used for analyzing/extracting storage data. I don't think there are any breaking changes in 2.0.0 that would affect this project.

I see you also want to add ltchiptool as a package. I don't know if NixOS supports package installation using pip, but ltchiptool's plugin functionality depends on that. Also note that there are some packages required for the GUI version only.

[mevatron]

@kuba2k2 Thanks for the quick response! I'll work on testing out the v2.0.0 upgrade now that the PR snapshot is into master. For ltchiptool I did notice that the pip based runtime downloads might cause an issue, but I need to take a look at the esphome and platformio nixpkgs to see how they are dealing with that kind of thing. I also think I may have fixed the segfault crash when opening the Plugins tab on Linux. I'll try to open a PR over on ltchiptool soon to see if that still works on Windows.