Hmm #RiverWM has updated to using #Zig 0.11.0 but #VoidLinux doesn't seem like it's going to get the Zig update anytime soon. As much as I love Void I've hit a few barriers which to be fair are probably my own doing because sometimes I want to run the latest from git. Not sure what the answer is? Do I suck it up and try another approach or do I head back to my roots aka Arch ?
Ok so I've got Zig 0.11.0 installed by grabbing the tarball and setting my PATH to point to zig location. Then I managed to rebuild the latest version of #RiverWM which depends on Zig 0.11.0
I think the true advantage of Void is that you can always decide to create binary packages relatively easy and then create your own package tree based on that.
This way you can use the latest river version or zig, it's even faster than the official package templates since you are using binary releases.
I am fine with you moving back to Arch though,- to each whoever he/she likes and what stability he/she prefers!
@JustineSmithies Sooo, yeah. Ran Void for at least three years but I finally buckled and hopped on the NixOS train. Still early into this adventure but, woah what an amazing experience so far.
Docs are a bit dense and scattered compared to Void docs but dotfiles are wide available as well as good peoples own documentation on blog posts and such.
Zig is on 0.11 on the unstable branch and river is on 0.2.4.
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