nix

Nix, the purely functional package manager

https://github.com/nixos/nix

Science Score: 54.0%

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Low similarity (10.5%) to scientific vocabulary

Keywords

c-plus-plus declarative-language functional-programming nix package-manager

Keywords from Contributors

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Repository

Nix, the purely functional package manager

Basic Info

Host: GitHub
Owner: NixOS
License: lgpl-2.1
Language: C++
Default Branch: master
Homepage: https://nixos.org/
Size: 119 MB

Statistics

Stars: 15,032
Watchers: 122
Forks: 1,707
Open Issues: 3,742
Releases: 0

Topics

c-plus-plus declarative-language functional-programming nix package-manager

Created almost 14 years ago · Last pushed 4 months ago

Metadata Files

Readme Contributing License Citation Codeowners

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
Matrix: #users:nixos.org for user support and #nix-dev:nixos.org for development

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.

Owner

Name: Nix/Nixpkgs/NixOS
Login: NixOS
Kind: organization
Location: Everywhere

Website: https://nixos.org/
Twitter: nixos_org
Repositories: 76
Profile: https://github.com/NixOS

Citation (CITATION.cff)

cff-version: 1.2.0
title: Nix
message: >-
  If you use this software, please cite it using the
  metadata from this file.
type: software
authors:
  - given-names: Eelco
    family-names: Dolstra
    email: edolstra@gmail.com
  - name: The Nix contributors
    website: 'https://github.com/NixOS/nix'
references:
  - title: The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model
    authors:
    - family-names: Dolstra
      given-names: Eelco
    year: 2006
    type: thesis
    thesis-type: PhD thesis
    isbn: 90-393-4130-3
    url: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/7540
    database-provider: Utrecht University Repository
    institution:
      name: Utrecht University
    keywords:
    - configuration management
    - software deployment
    - purely functional
    - component-based software engineering
repository-code: 'https://github.com/NixOS/nix'
url: 'https://nixos.org/'
abstract: >-
  Nix, a purely functional package manager, is a powerful
  package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that
  makes package management reliable and reproducible.
keywords:
  - reproducibility
  - open-source
  - c++
  - functional
license: LGPL-2.1

Committers

Last synced: 6 months ago

All Time

Total Commits: 15,735
Total Committers: 780
Avg Commits per committer: 20.173
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.503

Past Year

Commits: 1,717
Committers: 154
Avg Commits per committer: 11.149
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.743

Top Committers

Name	Email	Commits
Eelco Dolstra	e**a@g**m	7,827
John Ericson	J**n@O**s	1,221
Robert Hensing	r**t@r**l	826
Valentin Gagarin	v**n@t**o	475
regnat	rg@r****h	321
Ben Burdette	b**e@g**m	298
Shea Levy	s**a@s**m	236
Jörg Thalheim	j**g@t**o	158
Matthew Bauer	m**5@g**m	145
Théophane Hufschmitt	t**t@t**o	129
Yorick van Pelt	y**k@y**l	103
Maximilian Bosch	m**n@m**e	91
Ben Radford	b****f	89
Will Dietz	w@w****g	88
Rebecca Turner	r**t@s**s	84
pennae	g**b@q**t	83
Guillaume Maudoux	g**x@t**o	82
Graham Christensen	g**m@g**m	81
Sergei Zimmerman	x**m@p**e	78
Tom Bereknyei	t**k@g**m	76
Carlo Nucera	c**a@p**m	68
Domen Kožar	d**n@d**i	66
Daiderd Jordan	d**d@g**m	62
Travis A. Everett	t**t@g**m	51
dependabot[bot]	4****]	51
Naïm Favier	n@m****i	50
Cole Helbling	c**g@o**m	49
Alexander Bantyev	b**t@b**u	47
José Luis Lafuente	j**e@t**o	47
Adam Joseph	a**m@w**m	43
and 750 more...

Committer Domains (Top 20 + Academic)

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Issues and Pull Requests

Last synced: 4 months ago

All Time

Total issues: 2,722
Total pull requests: 5,715
Average time to close issues: 10 months
Average time to close pull requests: about 1 month
Total issue authors: 1,240
Total pull request authors: 474
Average comments per issue: 4.38
Average comments per pull request: 2.17
Merged pull requests: 4,018
Bot issues: 2
Bot pull requests: 1,435

Past Year

Issues: 661
Pull requests: 2,757
Average time to close issues: 6 days
Average time to close pull requests: 4 days
Issue authors: 400
Pull request authors: 170
Average comments per issue: 0.8
Average comments per pull request: 1.03
Merged pull requests: 1,924
Bot issues: 2
Bot pull requests: 1,080

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Top Authors

Issue Authors

roberth (285)
Ericson2314 (108)
edolstra (86)
thufschmitt (59)
fricklerhandwerk (52)
copumpkin (27)
lolbinarycat (24)
trofi (23)
domenkozar (23)
colemickens (21)
arianvp (19)
kjeremy (18)
infinisil (16)
lilyball (16)
lheckemann (16)

Pull Request Authors

mergify[bot] (1,081)
edolstra (679)
Ericson2314 (621)
roberth (470)
github-actions[bot] (314)
fricklerhandwerk (282)
Mic92 (234)
xokdvium (155)
9999years (92)
thufschmitt (83)
tomberek (46)
NaN-git (45)
dependabot[bot] (40)
puffnfresh (35)
cole-h (29)

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Issue Labels

bug (1,285) feature (501) installer (275) documentation (164) new-cli (118) flakes (110) language (95) UX (85) stale (80) fetching (70) idea approved (66) store (65) ca-derivations (59) error-messages (52) regression (49) remote build (38) nix-shell (37) good first issue (37) build-problem (36) macos (34) contributor-experience (33) performance (31) settings (29) cli (27) repl (25) tests (23) c api (20) process (19) windows (18) significant (17)

Pull Request Labels

with-tests (1,122) documentation (919) merge-queue (891) new-cli (850) automatic backport (587) fetching (584) store (488) conflicts (232) c api (231) repl (188) backport 2.24-maintenance (172) backport 2.28-maintenance (131) bug (124) idea approved (123) contributor-experience (114) backport 2.25-maintenance (94) backport 2.26-maintenance (90) language (86) tests (82) backport 2.19-maintenance (66) backport 2.27-maintenance (64) feature (61) flakes (57) backport 2.18-maintenance (56) backport 2.20-maintenance (55) UX (54) error-messages (47) windows (47) backport 2.21-maintenance (46) regression (43)

Packages

Total packages: 1
Total downloads: unknown

Total dependent packages: 0
Total dependent repositories: 0
Total versions: 12

conda-forge.org: nix

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.

Homepage: https://nixos.org/nix/
License: LGPL-2.1-or-later
Latest release: 2.3.16
published almost 4 years ago

Versions: 12
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0

Rankings

Stargazers count: 3.4%

Forks count: 4.4%

Average: 23.2%

Dependent repos count: 34.0%

Dependent packages count: 51.2%

Last synced: 4 months ago

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nix

Science Score: 54.0%

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