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<book> <book>
<title>Nix: The Manual</title> <title>Nix: The Manual</title>
<bookinfo>
<author>
<firstname>Eelco</firstname>
<surname>Dolstra</surname>
</author>
<copyright>
<year>2003</year>
<holder>Eelco Dolstra</holder>
</copyright>
</bookinfo>
&introduction; &introduction;
&installation; &installation;
<chapter> <chapter>
<title>A Guided Tour</title> <title>A Guided Tour</title>
<para> <para>
Bla bla
</para>
</chapter>
<chapter>
<title>Fix Language Reference</title>
<para>
Bla bla
</para> </para>
</chapter> </chapter>
<chapter> <chapter>
<title>Nix Syntax and Semantics</title> <title>Nix Syntax and Semantics</title>
<para> <para>
Bla bla </para>
</chapter>
<chapter>
<title>Fix Language Reference</title>
<para>
</para>
</chapter>
<chapter>
<title>Writing Builders</title>
<para>
</para> </para>
</chapter> </chapter>

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</para> </para>
<screen> <screen>
$ svn checkout http://losser.st-lab.cs.uu.nl:12080/repos/trace/nix/trunk $ svn checkout http://losser.st-lab.cs.uu.nl:12080/repos/trace/nix/trunk nix</screen>
nix</screen>
<para> <para>
Likewise, specific releases can be obtained from the <ulink Likewise, specific releases can be obtained from the <ulink
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</para> </para>
<screen> <screen>
$ autoreconf -i $ ./configure <replaceable>options...</replaceable> $ $ autoreconf -i
make $ make install</screen> $ ./configure <replaceable>options...</replaceable>
$ make
$ make install</screen>
<para> <para>
Currently, the only useful switch for <command>configure</command> is Currently, the only useful switch for <command>configure</command> is

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</sect1> </sect1>
<!--######################################################################-->
<sect1>
<title>What Nix can do for you</title>
<para>
Here is a summary of what Nix provides:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Reliable dependencies.</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Support for variability.</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Transparent source/binary deployment.</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Easy configuration duplication.</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Automatic storage management.</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Atomic upgrades and rollbacks.</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Support for many simultaneous configurations.</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>
Here is what Nix doesn't yet provide, but will:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Build management.</emphasis> In principle it is already
possible to do build management using Fix (by writing builders that
perform appropriate build steps), but the Fix language is not yet
powerful enough to make this pleasant. The <ulink
url='http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/maak/'>Maak build manager</ulink>
should be retargeted to produce Nix expressions, or alternatively,
extend Fix with Maak's semantics and concrete syntax (since Fix needs
a concrete syntax anyway). Another interesting idea is to write a
<command>make</command> implementation that uses Nix as a back-end to
support <ulink
url='http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#legacy'>legacy</ulink>
build files.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<!--######################################################################-->
<sect1> <sect1>
<title>The Nix system</title> <title>The Nix system</title>