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There are two big changes: 1. Public and private config is now separated. Configuration variables that are only used internally do not go in a header which is installed. (Additionally, libutil has a unix-specific private config header, which should only be used in unix-specific code. This keeps things a bit more organized, in a purely private implementation-internal way.) 2. Secondly, there is no more `-include`. There are very few config items that need to be publically exposed, so now it is feasible to just make the headers that need them just including the (public) configuration header. And there are also a few more small cleanups on top of those: - The configuration files have better names. - The few CPP variables that remain exposed in the public headers are now also renamed to always start with `NIX_`. This ensures they should not conflict with variables defined elsewhere. - We now always use `#if` and not `#ifdef`/`#ifndef` for our configuration variables, which helps avoid bugs by requiring that variables must be defined in all cases. |
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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 and first steps
Visit nix.dev for installation instructions and beginner tutorials.
Full reference documentation can be found in the Nix manual.
Building and developing
Follow instructions in the Nix reference manual to set up a development environment and build Nix from source.
Contributing
Check the contributing guide if you want to get involved with developing Nix.
Additional resources
Nix was created by Eelco Dolstra and developed as the subject of his PhD thesis The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model, published 2006. Today, a world-wide developer community contributes to Nix and the ecosystem that has grown around it.
- The Nix, Nixpkgs, NixOS Community on nixos.org
- Official documentation on nix.dev
- Nixpkgs is the largest, most up-to-date free software repository in the world
- NixOS is a Linux distribution that can be configured fully declaratively
- Discourse
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License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.