nixpkgs
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| nixpkgs | haskell-nix | |
|---|---|---|
| 974 | 6 | |
| 15,656 | 1,127 | |
| 5.3% | - | |
| 10.0 | 2.7 | |
| 3 days ago | 7 months ago | |
| Nix | Nix | |
| 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.
nixpkgs
- 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...
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GitHub Disabled the Xz Repo
True, but irrelevant -- _some packages_, _somewhere_, do depend on xz, which, if built, requires pulling the source from GitHub (see the default.nix: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-23.11/pkgs/tools...)
It's not the vulnerability that's a problem right now (NixOS was protected by a couple of factors) but rather GitHub's hamfisted response.
That is the problem.
haskell-nix
- Nix Team Creation
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How should dependencies be specified for the Haskell C FFI with callCabal2Nix?
Here's a tutorial on using native dependencies.
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Question about cabal and nix integration
Nevermind. I found a really good tutorial: https://github.com/Gabriel439/haskell-nix
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What's all the hype with Nix?
Gabriel Gonzalez's haskell-nix is a far more palatable introduction tutorial, then they can make the choice of whether or not to buy into IOHK's haskell.nix ecosystem if it suits their needs.
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Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit
I found useful this series of articles introducing Nix by using it with Haskell: https://github.com/Gabriel439/haskell-nix
I hope it helps.
What are some alternatives?
asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more
haskell.nix - Alternative Haskell Infrastructure for Nixpkgs
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
nix-ros-overlay - ROS overlay for the Nix package manager
git-lfs - Git extension for versioning large files
robotnix - Build Android (AOSP) using Nix [maintainer=@danielfullmer,@Atemu]
easyeffects - Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
nix-templates - Nix Flake templates for various languages
spack - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
static-haskell-nix - easily build most Haskell programs into fully static Linux executables
waydroid - Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.
Cabal - Official upstream development repository for Cabal and cabal-install