matrix-appservice-irc: init at 0.3.1

[Ralith]

Motivation for this change

Provides IRC bridging for the Matrix chat network.

Things done

• Tested using sandboxing
  (nix.useChroot on NixOS,
  or option build-use-chroot in nix.conf
  on non-NixOS)
• Built on platform(s)
  • NixOS
  • OS X
  • Linux
• Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nox --run "nox-review wip"
• Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
• Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

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[mention-bot]

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[joachifm]

Is it really necessary to check in more than 10000 lines for a single package?

[Ralith]

I have very poor understanding of the npm packaging infrastructure, but this is certainly not the only package that includes a npm2nix generated file. I've experimented some but haven't been able to work out a way to get it to work with the default top-level one. If there's a better way, I'd love to hear about it.

[joachifm]

If nodejs stuff requires 10,000+ lines per package we seriously need to reconsider how things are done on that front.

[Ralith]

It looks like the NPM/nodejs infrastructure is being reworked in #16886 although recent activity is limited. Should this be blocked by it?

[joachifm]

Should this be blocked by it?

As far as I'm concerned, yes. I'm not checking in 10,000+ lines of code for a single package. Somebody else might do it, however, my opinion is by no means authoritative.

[fpletz]

No progress for over a year. We will not merge this in the current form but feel free to reopen if things have improved.