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Alois Wohlschlager beb231784e doc/manual: clarify documentation related to the $$ parser bug
Due to a mistake in the grammar, a dollar character implicitly escapes a second
dollar character that immediately follows, so that it cannot start an
interpolation. Unfortunately, this behaviour has since come to be relied upon,
so it cannot be fixed. Furthermore, the documentation on regular strings did
not mention this behaviour at all, while in the case of indented strings it was
rather implicit.
Mention it explicitly in both cases, and describe how an interpolation can
follow a dollar character (namely, by escaping that). Since we have to touch
that section anyway, state that any character (other than n, r, and t; but
notably including `$` even if not succeeded by `{`) can be escaped using a
backslash in regular strings.

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.github .github: clean up stale things and wrong references 2024-06-12 15:34:23 -07:00
bench Add benchmarking scripts 2024-04-08 19:50:24 -07:00
clang-tidy clang-tidy: work with angle brackets and external projects 2024-05-24 02:22:58 +00:00
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doc doc/manual: clarify documentation related to the $$ parser bug 2024-07-17 22:01:48 +00:00
lix-doc lix-doc: update dependencies and refactor 2024-07-10 02:25:48 +00:00
maintainers Merge changes I476a2516,I8a274227 into main 2024-06-26 17:34:45 +00:00
meson libexpr: rewrite the parser with pegtl instead of flex/bison 2024-06-25 12:24:58 +00:00
misc libexpr: rewrite the parser with pegtl instead of flex/bison 2024-06-25 12:24:58 +00:00
nix-support nix-support/binary-tarball.nix: Pass through root paths 2024-07-13 23:22:43 +00:00
perl libutil: allow draining Generator<Bytes> into sinks 2024-07-03 11:46:53 +00:00
releng releng: add releaseTests flake output, test script 2024-07-09 22:50:51 +02:00
scripts remove the autoconf+Make buildsystem 2024-05-07 17:04:30 -06:00
src remove boost coroutine references 2024-07-16 01:50:16 +00:00
subprojects/aws_sdk build: fix static aws-cpp-sdk 2024-05-30 00:40:25 -06:00
tests Merge "tests/functional/repl.sh: actually fail test on wrong stdout" into main 2024-07-17 21:50:59 +00:00
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.envrc .envrc: remove MAKEFLAGS and use clang environment by default 2024-06-25 12:36:18 -06:00
.gitignore Put into place initial release engineering 2024-06-06 20:53:08 -07:00
.this-is-lix devShell: guard against running from another directory 2024-06-24 13:41:38 -07:00
CONTRIBUTING.md chore: re-work the contribution guide 2024-05-07 01:28:35 +00:00
COPYING Add pre-commit checks 2024-03-29 22:57:40 -07:00
default.nix Format Nix code with nixfmt 2024-04-08 13:00:00 -07:00
docker.nix releng: support multiarch docker images 2024-06-09 20:33:24 -07:00
flake.lock [resubmit] flake: update nixpkgs pin 23.11->24.05 (+ boehmgc compat changes) 2024-06-12 15:34:22 -07:00
flake.nix use clangStdenv for the default devShell, so we get clangd by default 2024-07-12 20:52:33 +00:00
justfile justfile: accept extra options to just setup and pass them to meson 2024-06-24 13:37:01 -07:00
meson.build remove boost coroutine references 2024-07-16 01:50:16 +00:00
meson.options build: expose option to enable or disable precompiled std headers 2024-06-06 12:46:26 -06:00
package.nix remove sourceToSink, sinkToSource, and boehm patch 2024-07-16 01:50:16 +00:00
README.md chore: rebrand Nix to Lix when it makes sense 2024-06-01 20:31:24 +02:00
shell.nix shell.nix: conform to documentation 2024-05-27 16:47:40 +02:00
treefmt.toml Format Nix code with nixfmt 2024-04-08 13:00:00 -07:00
version.json version: update to 2.91-dev for main 2024-06-15 18:46:18 -07:00

Lix

Lix is an implementation of Nix, a powerful package management system for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible.

Read more about us at https://lix.systems.

Installation

On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Lix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):

$ curl -sSf -L https://install.lix.systems/lix | sh -s -- install

For systems that already have a Nix implementation installed, such as NixOS systems, read our install page

Building And Developing

See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to to set up a development environment and build Lix from source.

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License

Lix is released under the LGPL v2.1.