Design Decisions

This document attempts to describe some design choices of the project, helping to understand the rationale behind the development or omission of certain features.

Using the module system

• Validate user options
• Merge attributes into final outptus
• Extensible

Straightforward mapping flake attributes to files

• No new concepts
• Predictable

Default branch to release

• Minimize download size
• Keep inputs.url short as github:ratson/conflake

Load files from nix/

• Indicate files under the folder are loaded by Conflake
• Non-Nix projects could use identical folder names for different tasks
• It can be changed if desirable