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nixpkgs
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2 | 975 | |
30 | 15,753 | |
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10.0 | 10.0 | |
over 1 year ago | 3 days ago | |
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Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal | MIT License |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
notes
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Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework
I'm not everyone, but this is why I do it: https://github.com/BurntSushi/notes/blob/master/2020-10-29_licensing-and-copyleft.md
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Reimplementing the Coreutils in a modern language (Rust)
Nice. Recasting "prefer MIT" to "afraid of copyleft."
I'm pretty sure we've had this discussion before on lobste.rs, yet you continue to mischaracterize and lump all opposition of copyleft into some irrational position based on fear, or that we somehow can't think for ourselves because our employers don't like copyleft.
My full position: https://github.com/BurntSushi/notes/blob/master/2020-10-29_l...
nixpkgs
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Nix: The Breaking Point
I don't think so. The article is probably intended for the Nix community, so the author doesn't need to convince HN that something is going on. If as an outsider you are interested then you need to look into it yourself, the community has no obligation to make their internal conflicts legible to the outside world.
As an outsider myself, it certainly looks like something is going on as more than 20 Nixpkg maintainers left in a week: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=label%3A%228.has%3...
- Maintainers Leaving
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Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits?author=neon-sunset
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Eelco Dolstra's leadership is corrosive to the Nix project
I see two signers in the top 6 displayed on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/graphs/contributors
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3rd Edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Stroustrup
For a single file script, nix can make the package management quite easy: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/languages-f...
For example,
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- NixOS/nixpkgs: There isn't a clear canonical way to refer to a specific package
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NixOS Is Not Reproducible
Yes, Nix doesn't actually ensure that the builds are deterministic. In fact it works just fine if they aren't. There are packages in nixpkgs that aren't reproducible: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aiss...
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The xz attack shell script
I'm not familiar with Bazel, but Nix in it's current form wouldn't have solved this attack. First of all, the standard mkDerivation function calls the same configure; make; make install process that made this attack possible. Nixpkgs regularly pulls in external resources (fetchUrl and friends) that are equally vulnerable to a poisoned release tarball. Checkout the comment on the current xz entry in nixpkgs https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/comp...
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Debian Git Monorepo
NixOS uses a monorepo and I think everyone's love it.
I love being able to easily grep through all the packages source code and there's regularly PRs that harmonizes conventions across many packages.
Nixpkgs doesn't include the packaged software source code, so it's a lot more practical than what Debian is doing.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
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From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs
In this specific case, nix uses fetchFromGitHub to download the source archive, which are generated by GitHub for the specified revision[1]. Arch seems to just download the tarball from the releases page[2].
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/3c2fdd0a4e6396fc310a6e...
[2]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/ib...
What are some alternatives?
coreutils - Core utils re-implementation for UNIX/UNIX-like systems written in Rust
asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more
boring - BoringSSL bindings for the Rust programming language.
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
nginx-rs - Nginx module written in Rust
git-lfs - Git extension for versioning large files
github - Just a place to track issues and feature requests that I have for github
easyeffects - Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
coreutils - Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
spack - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
quiche - 🥧 Savoury implementation of the QUIC transport protocol and HTTP/3
waydroid - Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.