A modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth — and committed to doing right by its community
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Prior to this change, we had a bunch of ad-hoc string manipulation code scattered around. This made it hard to figure out what data model for string contexts is. Now, we still store string contexts most of the time as encoded strings --- I was wary of the performance implications of changing that --- but whenever we parse them we do so only through the `NixStringContextElem::parse` method, which handles all cases. This creates a data type that is very similar to `DerivedPath` but: - Represents the funky `=<drvpath>` case as properly distinct from the others. - Only encodes a single output, no wildcards and no set, for the "built" case. (I would like to deprecate `=<path>`, after which we are in spitting distance of `DerivedPath` and could maybe get away with fewer types, but that is another topic for another day.) |
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Nix
Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.
Installation
On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):
$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.
Building And Developing
See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to build nix from source with nix-build or how to get a development environment.
Additional Resources
- Nix manual
- Nix jobsets on hydra.nixos.org
- NixOS Discourse
- Matrix - #nix:nixos.org
- IRC - #nixos on libera.chat
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.