WIP: use niv for source management

nix/sources.nix

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+# This file has been generated by Niv.
+
+# A record, from name to path, of the third-party packages
+with rec
+{
+  pkgs =
+    if hasNixpkgsPath
+    then
+        if hasThisAsNixpkgsPath
+        then import (builtins_fetchTarball { inherit (sources_nixpkgs) url sha256; }) {}
+        else import <nixpkgs> {}
+    else
+        import (builtins_fetchTarball { inherit (sources_nixpkgs) url sha256; }) {};
+
+  sources_nixpkgs =
+    if builtins.hasAttr "nixpkgs" sources
+    then sources.nixpkgs
+    else abort
+    ''
+        Please specify either <nixpkgs> (through -I or NIX_PATH=nixpkgs=...) or
+        add a package called "nixpkgs" to your sources.json.
+    '';
+
+  # fetchTarball version that is compatible between all the versions of Nix
+  builtins_fetchTarball =
+      { url, sha256 }@attrs:
+      let
+        inherit (builtins) lessThan nixVersion fetchTarball;
+      in
+        if lessThan nixVersion "1.12" then
+          fetchTarball { inherit url; }
+        else
+          fetchTarball attrs;
+
+  # fetchurl version that is compatible between all the versions of Nix
+  builtins_fetchurl =
+      { url, sha256 }@attrs:
+      let
+        inherit (builtins) lessThan nixVersion fetchurl;
+      in
+        if lessThan nixVersion "1.12" then
+          fetchurl { inherit url; }
+        else
+          fetchurl attrs;
+
+  # A wrapper around pkgs.fetchzip that has inspectable arguments,
+  # annoyingly this means we have to specify them
+  fetchzip = { url, sha256 }@attrs: pkgs.fetchzip attrs;
+
+  hasNixpkgsPath = (builtins.tryEval <nixpkgs>).success;
+  hasThisAsNixpkgsPath =
+    (builtins.tryEval <nixpkgs>).success && <nixpkgs> == ./.;
+
+  sources = builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile ./sources.json);
+
+  mapAttrs = builtins.mapAttrs or
+    (f: set: with builtins;
+      listToAttrs (map (attr: { name = attr; value = f attr set.${attr}; }) (attrNames set)));
+
+  # borrowed from nixpkgs
+  functionArgs = f: f.__functionArgs or (builtins.functionArgs f);
+  callFunctionWith = autoArgs: f: args:
+    let auto = builtins.intersectAttrs (functionArgs f) autoArgs;
+    in f (auto // args);
+
+  getFetcher = spec:
+    let fetcherName =
+      if builtins.hasAttr "type" spec
+      then builtins.getAttr "type" spec
+      else "builtin-tarball";
+    in builtins.getAttr fetcherName {
+      "tarball" = fetchzip;
+      "builtin-tarball" = builtins_fetchTarball;
+      "file" = pkgs.fetchurl;
+      "builtin-url" = builtins_fetchurl;
+    };
+};
+# NOTE: spec must _not_ have an "outPath" attribute
+mapAttrs (_: spec:
+  if builtins.hasAttr "outPath" spec
+  then abort
+    "The values in sources.json should not have an 'outPath' attribute"
+  else
+    if builtins.hasAttr "url" spec && builtins.hasAttr "sha256" spec
+    then
+      spec //
+      { outPath = callFunctionWith spec (getFetcher spec) { }; }
+    else spec
+  ) sources