Pinning a specific package

[domenkozar]

This is a common use case.

[roman]

Have you considered reading language-specific files that indicate the desired language version? (e.g. go.mod, Gemspec, etc.)?

[domenkozar]

Have you considered reading language-specific files that indicate the desired language version? (e.g. go.mod, Gemspec, etc.)?

Yes, see #401 how it's implemented for Ruby

[worldofgeese]

@domenkozar could adopting something like flox's channels or Devbox's newly announced Nixhub work to provide historical versions to devenv? I ran into this recently with bun, where I needed an older version than 0.7.0 provided in unstable. I would have used the method provided in #218 (comment) but its method of finding old versions via this web frontend doesn't show more recent versions I know exist in merged PRs to Nixpkgs.

[domenkozar]

I made a prototype for this back in the beginning of the year, still plan to finish it.