Tracking issue: Crystal programming language

[donovanglover]

This is a tracking issue to improve the state of Crystal in nixpkgs.

• crystal: make Crystal default target match Nix target platform #223901 (fixed upstream)
• Adds interpreter to crystal #340760 (superseded by crystal: add interpreter support #380842)
• Wrong date in crystal --version #306765
• shards: 0.17.4 -> 0.19.1 #299776 (done in shards: 0.17.4 -> 0.19.1; migrate to pkgs/by-name #380841)
• crystal: format with nixfmt
• crystal: refactor/cleanup (sha256 -> hash etc.)
  • crystal: remove unused code from < 1.7.0 #381734
• crystal: migrate to pkgs/by-name
• crystal: drop old versions no longer used by packages
  • kakoune-cr: fix build and drop dependency on crystal 1.2 #381592
  • scry: drop #381621
  • mint: 0.19.0 -> 0.22.0 and drop dependency on crystal 1.9 #381728
  • crystal: drop versions from before 2024 #381772
  • crystal_1_12: drop #383462
• Add active maintainers to Crystal team

CC: @NixOS/crystal-lang

[donovanglover]

I'd like to nominate the following people to join the @NixOS/crystal-lang team:

• @MisileLab for actively maintaining Crystal in nixpkgs
• @will for long-standing contributions to the Crystal ecosystem
• @sund3RRR for demonstrated expertise with the Crystal build system

[MisileLab]

I made #380841 and #380842 for shards and interpreter support to crystal.

[donovanglover]

Crystal will soon need a change to the man pages code since upstream now uses asciidoc. See crystal-lang/crystal#15493

[will]

@donovanglover missed the first notification where I was tagged but saw this last one for some reason.

I'm happy to help out as time allows, though I don't know what all is involved. I can test out things on arch64-darwin at least for sure!

[donovanglover]

Main responsibilities would include:

• Updating Crystal to newer versions
• Reviewing issues/PRs related to Crystal, Shards, buildCrystalPackage, etc.

Darwin testing is much appreciated, and knowledge of Crystal helps with fixing build failures. Crystal does not receive much activity in nixpkgs, so most of the work would likely be the minor releases every 3 months.

[donovanglover]

We don't package a lot of Crystal programs in nixpkgs (less than 20) and I think it'd be okay to only ship the latest version of Crystal now that 1.x has been out for 4 years.

This would reduce the burden for contributors and simplify the package options for end users on search.nixos.org.

[straight-shoota]

This is a great effort, thanks for driving to improve Crystal support.

I'm not super confident contributing to nixpkgs, but happy to provide any necessary assistance from upstream.