Nix

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Analyzed about 14 hours ago. based on code collected about 15 hours ago.

Project Summary

The Purely Functional Package Manager

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup of build environments.

In a Nutshell, Nix...

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has had 20,623 commits made by 824 contributors
representing 103,604 lines of code
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is mostly written in C++
with a low number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 27 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in March, 2003
ending with its most recent commit about 20 hours ago

Quick Reference

Project Links:

Homepage

Code Locations:

https://github.com/NixOS/nix

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Managers:

Pascal Bach

Licenses

GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1

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