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Adam Joseph 8f44d24c52 !fixup whitespace 2022-08-04 14:19:25 -07:00
Adam Joseph 56d4fc194b fourth trust condition: FODs 2022-08-04 14:14:24 -07:00
Adam Joseph a5be5e0120 doc/manual: define {local,remote} store, binary cache, substituter 
Nix veterans intuitively know what the following terms mean.  They are
used in several places in the nix documentation, but never defined:

- local store
- remote store
- binary cache
- substituter

In particular, I found the last two terms to be confusingly similar.
Let's give definitions for them.
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John Ericson 39d32ac4c6 Add disclaimer that arch section is WIP and links may rot 
So we can iterate without worrying so much.
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John Ericson 6f6498f59c Remove header fragments which is not needd 2022-08-04 14:02:38 -04:00
John Ericson 016d7a8f78 Fix rosetta stone file name 2022-08-04 14:02:19 -04:00
John Ericson b430a6743c Remove sections within from SUMMARY 2022-08-04 14:01:55 -04:00
John Ericson bc118854d0 Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into doc-what-is-nix 2022-08-04 09:11:42 -04:00
Valentin Gagarin b631742277 fix page rendering 
apparently it is not possible to link to page anchors with `mdBook`[1]

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/167
 2022-08-04 14:31:33 +02:00
Domen Kožar 7d1280bbaf
Merge pull request #6678 from abathur/update_darwin_uninstall 
doc: update darwin uninstall instructions
 2022-08-04 14:09:09 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin cc3a5f4ba2 use correct mdBook syntax for callouts 2022-08-04 14:04:14 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 8cec32e7f5 fix directory tree renderings 2022-08-04 13:51:35 +02:00
Domen Kožar 84a26882f8
Update doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md 
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
 2022-08-04 06:23:45 -05:00
Domen Kožar 3c2de2da01
Update doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md 
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
 2022-08-04 06:23:36 -05:00
Valentin Gagarin 3df1ee2ba5 clarify what explicitly declaring certain dependencies means 2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin b7309ce624 move architecture to the end 2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 00a7eaed67 add file system object to table of contents 2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin db6faf44a9 clarify what store objects can be 
the store of course makes a distinction, but that is not relevant here
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Valentin Gagarin 0228eb8ae7 add Java example on manual dependency declaration 2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 29c062537d hashes: truncate -> reduce, mention SHA-256 
the longer SHA-256 hashes are not truncated, but in fact processed.

Co-authored-by: Thomas <twatson52@mac.com>
 2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 9cabba1fc3 mention hard links 
Co-authored-by: Thomas <twatson52@mac.com>
 2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin bac86231ad use "build plan" consistently 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 5a5a95696f note customized base32 
Nix omits E O U T characters for some reason.
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Valentin Gagarin de5dea45f7 use correct Nix entity 
Nix itself does care a lot about what type of store object you have.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin fe4c0b8d75 fix typo 
Co-authored-by: Thomas <twatson52@mac.com>
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin def80d5777 add subsections to table of contents 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin c345345dee concept map: align hights 
this has the weird but nice emergent property that terms at the same
height are roughly at the same level of abstraction.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin a28d6878b2 concept map: put closure as it is in the chapter 
this is not as compact any more, but it more closely resembles the
chapter structure, and clearly shows that the closure property is the
key idea on which most of Nix operates.
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Valentin Gagarin 475a332025 make concept map even more compact 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin d8b2f9f772 make concept map more compact 
invert arrows to/from derivation:
- we need closures to form derivations
- we need derivations to perform builds
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Valentin Gagarin 348432f48f store: add concept map 
this should help nativate the chapter by indicating which terms should
be known to understand a given concept.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin ec43977553 store: match chapter introduction to outline 
the various levels of detail should describe the same things.
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Valentin Gagarin 7c656d90ca simplify description of diagram 
try not to be too fancy, it's just for reading the diagram out loud.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 631ca18ee6 reword notes on copying 
clarify that we are copying between different stores. we have not
introduced that notion or why it would be interesting, but for now it
should be fine to keep it in context of the store directory.

we could move that later to a more detailed explanation of different
store types.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin c10dcccccd make example a simple list 
using JSON notation is unwarranted and not explained.
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Valentin Gagarin 9c544813d7 paths -> path 
use singular for terminology uniformly
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Valentin Gagarin 1681f4e9f3 better explain reference scanning 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin fa7ad4593d explain store directory 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin f632816cba add explanation and examples of file system objects 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 84ddfbf8fd remove diagonal from operations diagram 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 93f721b0d2 remove draft on derivations 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 19d8a5d839 move first mention of file system object before diagram 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin a90fc62b61 make clear that file system is for processes 
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 7993ba1f38 constrain garbage collection scope 
garbage collection is now incremental, and may (in theory) never delete all unreferenced objects if it is slow enough.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 195aa28ff7 references are added according to build task 
at this level of abstraction we do not really care about build instructions or what they are, and also build instructions including their arguments really amount to the build task.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 80de4a4804 operations diagram: store' to the right 
this also looks more diverse, hopefully easier to distinguish

Co-authored-by: John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 3794618cce add commas between output values 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 7b7e4c6340 use singular to match section heading 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin e63a768e21 use reference links for URLs 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 843288a451 add subsections for objects and references 
group description of data instead of spreading it across the section.

that should help direct skimming. as it turns out, people do not
actually read any of that.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 4341849193 move closure property to discussion references 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 445f753a82 replace pseudo code by diagrams 
change prose description to visually resemble the data structure
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin db8703bcac use reference links for URLs 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 4adb6602bd clarify first sentence on store objects 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 4eb11d4592 fix grammar for clarity 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin b84f2bdfdd introduce mapping to Unix files and processes 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 207992a71d introduce store and store objects without file system details 
this leaves open implementation details, especially about store paths
and file system objects, and allows explaining them together were it is
more appropriate. also leaves room to carefully introduce the key
insight behind Nix: applying results from programming language theory to
the operating system paradigm of files and processes.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin e72a7874dc beautify rosetta table 
while this may eventually introduce ugly diffs, the table will now
render readably on the terminal (e.g. for `man nix` or `nix --help`)
without further intervention.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin b6b112b366 use reference links for URLs 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin d5eea66615 introduce build tasks 
while it appears a bit much for the overview, this way we set the stage
for going directly into data types when describing the store, instead of
first having to say what build tasks are and how they relate to build
plans.
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Valentin Gagarin 7c3bca1372 revert to build plans in top-level overview 
do not introduce build tasks yet, that is the next level of detail.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 4639b36b53 use reference links for URLs 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 2303f84a68 revert to "build plan" in overview diagram 
this displays correct composition again. build inputs and build results
are not part of build plans in terms of data objects.

also this is a much less complicated setup. this will be the first
impression of architecture, and we want to get it right.
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Valentin Gagarin 25926c5fc6 Nix store does not underly literally everything 
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 0e63b9bf88 add link from overview to store section 
the overview should only link to the three main concepts presented. the
store is now fairly fleshed out. others can follow later.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin ef81276cc1 architecture overview: add link to command line reference 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 68d26010f6 architecture overview: add link to Nix expression language reference 
update summary title to match file contents
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 75ce324052 use singular for class names consistently 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 689b32a543 clarify relation of tasks and plans 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 2a8532fb61 build rule -> build task 
closer to "build systems a la carte", satisfies all other complaints
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 902638c519 build step -> build rule 
"step" sounds atomic, while "rule" hints at internal structure, which in
our case consists of mapping inputs to outputs using build instructions.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 87523f01e3 match grammatical case to arrow direction 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin d3effd014b update architecture diagram 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin ad8c2ed7f0 remove incomplete section: input/content-addressing 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 3bd125ebbe remove incomplete section: nix archives 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin b18852eb3f remove incomplete section: content-addressed objects 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 7cec9ee361 remove incomplete section: relocatability 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 96876b1eae remove incomplete section: related work 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 1ba6d8fb1d remove incomplete section: building 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
John Ericson 3d8f2f5cc1 Fix manual TOC links 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
John Ericson b01bb65d30 Fix rel path in doc 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin b5ca3d12b6 reword details on keeping closure property 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin e90586c0a4 add motivation for references 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 07d490fd89 stores can also delete objects 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 5fda995491 formalize file system objects 
convention: describe every data type in prose, and illustrate with
a class diagram, and a textual representation of an abstract
data type.

right now we save ourselves the trouble of doing class diagrams, we can
add them later. but they are important.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin fb2ec7e4ec reword section on references 
use file Contents instead of Data, as that flows more naturally in the
prose.

simplify explanation of the idea behind scanning for store paths

remove references to unfinished sections.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 90fc5b41a8 reword file system objects 
- use singular for the "class"
- more consistency in type definition
- minor fixes in wording
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Valentin Gagarin e5e48593c8 move git comparison to related work 
it should be pulled out of the branch before we go for merging
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Valentin Gagarin a145007a57 component -> store object, realisation -> build 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 40efe5b30b build instrcution: Task -> function 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin ca5ebf6382 revert build plan/step distinction, reorder rows 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 610ddf44aa reword introduction to rosetta stone, add links 
attempt to explain used and documented terminology, as well as how
the declarative programming paradigm relates to building software.

in the future one could highlight encouraged terms to shape future
material into higher consistency.
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Valentin Gagarin 5f96a0b4e8 associated operations are not collected 
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 070c85499b fix grammar 
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
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Valentin Gagarin 7b5c00f67f add concrete store examples, reword note on file system 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin c8c1b705ad reword section on Nix store 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 39f01176a7 design -> architecture, add motivation 
following ideas found in Architecture of Gazelle[1]

[1]: 56d35f8db0/Design.rst
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Valentin Gagarin d30033759a address Nix language consistently as configuration language 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 7598126391 remove separate meta-section, add architecture diagram 
the diagram is a first approximation and only covers that same section.
of course there is much more going on, and other features should at some
point also be illustrated.

we also have to think about presentation format and technicalities
behind it. the manual has to render to `man`, but we may want something
more refined for web view.
 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 34ea74c9ec reword introductory section 
there should be a meta section for each chapter to give motivation of
the presented structure. the structure itself is visible from the table
of contents.
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