Package request: WeChat

[Seeker0472]

Project description
WeChat (or Weixin/微信 in Chinese) is a Chinese instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app developed by Tencent and is widely used in China.
And Tencent has released the official linux test version of Wechat recently(Which is different from the wechat-uos from nixpkgs).

Metadata

• homepage URL: https://linux.weixin.qq.com/en
• license: unknown
• platforms: linux

[Seeker0472]

It should be the same package, please check the master branch

@aucub However, I don't believe that's the case. The wechat-uos package in the master branch of nixpkgs was downloaded from https://uniontech.com/ and was originally designed exclusively for UOS, requiring a UOS license to operate.

[jian-lin]

cc wechat-uos maintainers @pokon548 @xddxdd

[pluiedev]

Looks like download links are not versioned in any way — doesn't sound stable enough for inclusion in Nixpkgs

[UlyssesZh]

  inherit (stdenv.hostPlatform) system;

  src = fetchurl {
    url = {
      x86_64-linux = "https://web.archive.org/web/20241107191621/https://dldir1v6.qq.com/weixin/Universal/Linux/WeChatLinux_x86_64.AppImage";
      aarch64-linux = "https://web.archive.org/web/20241107192345/https://dldir1v6.qq.com/weixin/Universal/Linux/WeChatLinux_arm64.AppImage";
      x86_64-darwin = "https://web.archive.org/web/20241107193311/https://dldir1v6.qq.com/weixin/Universal/Mac/WeChatMac_x86_64.dmg";
      aarch64-darwin = "http://web.archive.org/web/20241107194014/https://dldir1v6.qq.com/weixin/Universal/Mac/WeChatMac_arm64.dmg";
    }.${system};
    # ...
  }

@pluiedev

[pluiedev]

Ah yes, the classic trick known as "just use the Wayback Machine"... Fair enough, I might take a look at it

[UlyssesZh]

Yeah I think this has been the standard way of handling this in nixpkgs. Those links are created by me today, should be new enough.

[pokon548]

@aucub* However, I don't believe that's the case. The wechat-uos package in the master branch of nixpkgs was downloaded from uniontech.com* and was originally designed exclusively for UOS, requiring a UOS license to operate.

Actually, 4.0.0.21 does not require libuosdevicea and license.tar.gz anymore (Will still try to find them, but it will not break usability and will let you login even you do not had them). I just remove them in local build and wechat-uos works normally. Will upstream changes in the next PR. Edit: Done in #354378

Looks like download links are not versioned in any way — doesn't sound stable enough for inclusion in Nixpkgs

I had reached officials for this problem, but had not received any response yet.

For me, wechat-uos still has benefit in updates, as I could check updates from uniontech APT repo and easy to fetch updates automatically. Will consider rebased to official distributions after this issue is addressed.

[darkclip]

tried the official version, more functions are available, seems no bwrap anymore, overall i think it's better.