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alois31 beb231784e doc/manual: clarify documentation related to the `$$` parser bug Due to a mistake in the grammar, a dollar character implicitly escapes a second dollar character that immediately follows, so that it cannot start an interpolation. Unfortunately, this behaviour has since come to be relied upon, so it cannot be fixed. Furthermore, the documentation on regular strings did not mention this behaviour at all, while in the case of indented strings it was rather implicit. Mention it explicitly in both cases, and describe how an interpolation can follow a dollar character (namely, by escaping that). Since we have to touch that section anyway, state that any character (other than n, r, and t; but notably including `$` even if not succeeded by `{`) can be escaped using a backslash in regular strings. Change-Id: `I7e5d68a9a4130eec98ce8218b485168f4b31a677`		2024-07-17 22:01:48 +00:00
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doc	doc/manual: clarify documentation related to the `$$` 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
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.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
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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
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version.json	version: update to 2.91-dev for main	2024-06-15 18:46:18 -07:00

README.md

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.

Additional Resources

License

Lix is released under the LGPL v2.1.