_86BoxManagerX: init at 1.7.6.0-e

[jchv]

Description of changes

https://github.com/RetBox/86BoxManagerX

86BoxManagerX is a cross-platform fork of 86BoxManager, a configuration manager for 86Box. 86BoxManagerX makes it easy to manage multiple different machine configurations using 86Box.

In order to integrate it well into Nixpkgs, the following patches were made:

• The configuration file is loaded from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME rather than the directory of the assembly, which would point into the read-only Nix store. This is adapted from a pending pull request.
• The directory of 86Box is hardcoded into the Nix store.
• The UI elements and respective logic for changing the path to the 86Box executable are removed.

The justification for this is a result of the way 86BoxManagerX works: at first startup, it creates the configuration files after detecting the path to 86Box, and encodes the path to 86Box into the configuration file. After this, it does not try to find the 86Box executable again, even if it stops existing. It would be nice if the configuration could override the hardcoded path, but that'd be a much more involved patch, whereas this one is almost entirely just removing things, which should be easy to deal with. Adding upstream support for the hardcoded path might make this easier in the future.

P.S.: The reason the version string differs from the tag in having an additional hyphen is because buildDotnetModule disallows the string 1.7.6.0e.

Things done

• Built on platform(s)
  • x86_64-linux
  • aarch64-linux
  • x86_64-darwin
  • aarch64-darwin
• For non-Linux: Is sandboxing enabled in nix.conf? (See Nix manual)
  • sandbox = relaxed
  • sandbox = true
• Tested, as applicable:
  • NixOS test(s) (look inside nixos/tests)
  • and/or package tests
  • or, for functions and "core" functionality, tests in lib/tests or pkgs/test
  • made sure NixOS tests are linked to the relevant packages
• Tested compilation of all packages that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD". Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage
• Tested basic functionality of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
• 24.05 Release Notes (or backporting 23.05 and 23.11 Release notes)
  • (Package updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is major or breaking
  • (Module updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is significant
  • (Module addition) Added a release notes entry if adding a new NixOS module
• Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

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[jchv]

Changelog from 4aae8545d2aa651461708e2e702ac5a9831e43f0 to faab013b3ec3e4de810995a82066afbbab91a2f6:

• Changed pname to be lowercase, in accordance with the nixpkgs guidelines.
• Applied suggestion to remove with lib usage.
• Applied suggestion to use substituteAll instead of substitute for path patch.

Changelog from faab013b3ec3e4de810995a82066afbbab91a2f6 to 51e7863ebab0893253559e55f49235cd1300565f:

• Formatted deps.nix, now that this is enforced by CI.

Changelog from 51e7863ebab0893253559e55f49235cd1300565f to dfa57fdde5deb1bc59a350d0cb3a2eda75af2179:

• Reverted suggestion to use substituteAll. Upon further inspection, substituteAll silently ignores any variables that don't start with lowercase letters. I could change the patch, but it doesn't seem worth it. I'll change the patch if anyone thinks it would be worth it, but if so please leave a suggestion for what the variable should be called.

[FliegendeWurst]

.NET 6 will be removed #326335

[jchv]

Welp, I should not have neglected this PR so much. Sorry.

86Box 5.0 comes with a builtin VM manager, and while I'm not sure that makes 86BoxManagerX fully obsolete by any means, it does somewhat obviate the need for this, and therefore I would prefer to not add the maintenance burden of adding another external manager to Nixpkgs. If anyone still wants to pick this up, please feel free to take over where I left off.