[PaulDavisThe1st]

The key point here is that we want to package things in a distro-independent way. In our distro-independent package there is no store and hence on nixOS it won't run.

Note that the way we do things is not unique - Firefox has been packaged this way by the Mozilla Foundation for years. We consider ourselves closer to a "traditional ISV" than merely the provider of source code to the open source community (though obviously, we play the latter roll too).

We don't have the resources to spend on a nixOS-specific package, nor the desire. Fortunately, of course, nixOS users can create suitable packages for nixOS, and I think they are.

It just says something that out of the myriad flavors of Linux, nixOS is the only one that has broken this rather old concept for packaging software from ISVs.

But please, carry on! Seems interesting enough.