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     "Nix should immediately make a person's time better.md",
+    "cargo2nix.md",
     "Nix Flakes.md",
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Mononix/Index.md

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 # Background
 
+I do a lot of Rust development. I also like to attach other programming languages so that I can, for instance, write a [go application that works in a web browser](https://git.luminescent-dreams.com/savanni/tools/src/branch/main/kifu/pwa). And, I tend to work in a [monorepo](https://git.luminescent-dreams.com/savanni/tools/), because that helps me keep all of my disparate interests somewhat in sync with one another.
 
+Finally, I use Nix to manage my development tools.
 
+However, what I cannot do is use Nix to actually build my projects. Most of my projects, admittedly, are Rust projects and so they are pretty easily built with a simple Cargo.toml. However, as soon as I want to do something complicated, such as a web application, I have to dig extensively to find documentation on how to actually lay out the application and get all of the tools in place. Plus, I have to use a different build tool and get all of the build tools to work together.
+
+What I actually want to do is this.
+
+```
+> nix run .#kifu-gtk
+```
+
+And I want you to be able to just say this...
+
+```
+> nix run https://git.luminescent-dreams.com/savanni/tools/#.kifu-gtk
+```
+
+## Monorepos
+
+For the purpose of this project, a monorepo as a single Git repository which contains potentially many libraries and applications, in separate packages (rust Crates, node Modules, etc), which interdepend and may be developed simultaneously with one another.
+
+## Past experiences
+
+I don't have many past experiences.
+
+- I have the 1Password Monorepo, which is mostly held together with Makefiles which invoke platform-specific build tools. These were put together before I arrived at the company, and they are extensive. The developer build environment does not match the CI build environment.
+- I have tried Bazel, but have not been able to build a purely Rust project even while following the tutorials.
+- I have my [Tools Monorepo](https://git.luminescent-dreams.com/savanni/tools/) where I use a bunch of Makefiles to invoke platform-specific build commands. This doesn't work too badly, but I've hand-rolled every boilerplate Makefile, and should I want to add something like cross-compilation to Raspberry Pi, I am in for a world of pain.
+
+I have evaluated all but one of the [[Rust build tools in Nix]], and found significant drawbacks in each. The biggest drawback, though, is that the tools are all for building an application. Binding two applications together is never a consideration with any of the build tools, and so something like the Kifu PWA application simply cannot be built with Nix as a build tool.
 # Requirements
 
 - select the toolchains and versions thereof for the project
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 Each of these is a separate Nix command that builds or runs the desired result.
 
 ---
-- [[Nix Monorepos]]
 - [[Nix For Development]]
 - [[Cross-compiling]]
 - [[Scaling Rust Builds with Bazel]]
-- [[Makefiles and Monorepos]]
+- [[Makefiles and Monorepos]]
+- [Experiment in cross-compiling](https://github.com/jraygauthier/jrg-rust-cross-experiment/blob/master/simple-static-rustup-target-windows/shell.nix)
+- [Building Nix flakes from Rust workspaces - Tweag](https://www.tweag.io/blog/2022-09-22-rust-nix/)

Mononix/Nix For Development.md

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 ---
 - [[Nix should immediately make a person's time better]]
-- [[Nix Monorepos]]
 - [[Scaling Rust Builds with Bazel]]
 - [[Nix Flakes]]
 - [[crate2nix]]

Mononix/Rust build tools in Nix.md

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-
-- [Experiment in cross-compiling](https://github.com/jraygauthier/jrg-rust-cross-experiment/blob/master/simple-static-rustup-target-windows/shell.nix)
-- [Building Nix flakes from Rust workspaces - Tweag](https://www.tweag.io/blog/2022-09-22-rust-nix/)
-
 # Rust
 ## Tools
 
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 | [[crate2nix]]        |                                     |                   | no                     |
 | [[naersk]]           |                                     |                   |                        |
 
-Nothing short of caching each dependency in a separate crate will make a tool acceptable for monorepo development.
-
-# A strategy
-
-- Each crate needs to be treated as a separate
+Nothing short of caching each dependency in a separate crate will make a tool acceptable for monorepo development.

readme.md

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 Monorepo tools using Nix as the build, link, and package tool.
 
-See [the documentation index](Mononix/Index.md) for more detailed documentation.
+- [Documentation Index](Mononix/Index.md)
+- [Tracker](https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/2650555)
+- [Demo Repository](https://git.luminescent-dreams.com/savanni/demo-repo)
+
+# Usage
+
+There is no code yet, so there are no usage instructions