emmanuelrosa on Nostr: I recently mentioned that Bisq 1 is now marked as broken on Nixpkgs because OpenJDK ...

I recently mentioned that Bisq 1 is now marked as broken on Nixpkgs because OpenJDK 11 was removed.

I came up with a solution to get us by until Bisq 2 is feature-complete. The basic idea is this:

1. Create a NixOS-friendly AppImage of Bisq 1.
2. Keep a copy of the AppImage in a safe place.
3. Either use the AppImage, or use a bisq-desktop package with a pinned Nixpkgs, so that you can still access OpenJDK 11.

All of the above can be done with the Nix flake https://github.com/emmanuelrosa/bisq-for-nixos

Note: It's very likely that NixOS users using Bisq will soon discover that it can't be built anymore. Since NixOS doesn't track its users (how dare they!), this build failure is actually the best method we have to communiate that action needs to be taken. I've been emailed in the past by people using Bisq on NixOS, so I'm sure I'll here from them soon :)

I plan to remove the Bisq 1 package from Nixpkgs after the November stable release. I did not expect to have to do this so soon, but here we are.

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