Getting this into a Nixpkgs and adding flake.nix?

[dpc]

We've been using esplora as a backend for Fedimint testing. We've been running it as an ad-hoc package derivation, but I'd love to get off an extra nixpkgs fork and so on.

Here is the commit I'd like to submit to nixpkgs:

dpc/nixpkgs@ab43e33

As you can see I rename the package and a binary so it doesn't conflict with the existing electrs. I think sharing names with a fork is a mistake.

Anyway, please let me know if you're fine with this, and maybe you could consider making a tagged release so it all looks a bit "clean and polished" to Nixpkgs maintainers?

Also, would you be interested in adding a flake.nix to this repo, so people could just import it directly in their own flakes?

[realeinherjar]

We are also struggling to have this in BDK, we would love to have it easily as a nixpkg.
Related bitcoindevkit/bdk#1165.

[matthiasdebernardini]

We are also using esplora as part of Nix, would be fantastic to bundle it in my devenv shell.

[dpc]

I should probably create this issue in https://github.com/Blockstream/electrs , as it's only implementing the Electrum backend part, and does not deal with the frontend at all.

[dpc]

It can't be done with Cargo.toml has git dependencies. That an a some release tag would great to have.