Nix

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Analyzed about 1 hour ago. based on code collected about 8 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 20,276 commits made by 810 contributors
representing 100,916 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 26 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in March, 2003
ending with its most recent commit 1 day 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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Project Security

Vulnerabilities per Version ( last 10 releases )

There are no reported vulnerabilities

Project Vulnerability Report

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