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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![]() Where a `RealisedPath` is a store path with its history, meaning either an opaque path for stuff that has been directly added to the store, or a `Realisation` for stuff that has been built by a derivation This is a low-level refactoring that doesn't bring anything by itself (except a few dozen extra lines of code :/ ), but raising the abstraction level a bit is important on a number of levels: - Commands like `nix build` have to query for the realisations after the build is finished which is fragile (see 27905f12e4a7207450abe37c9ed78e31603b67e1 for example). Having them oprate directly at the realisation level would avoid that - Others like `nix copy` currently operate directly on (built) store paths, but need a bit more information as they will need to register the realisations on the remote side |
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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
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.