Eelco's PhD thesis explains more relevant concepts that you may want to know about. For example, what a store derivation (.drv file) is and why it is implemented like that.
You can download his thesis from his homepage: http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf Alternatively, I also have a blog covering various Nix related aspects as well as a number of (crazy) Nix applications: http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com ________________________________________ From: nix-dev-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl [nix-dev-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl] on behalf of Michael Raskin [7c6f4...@mail.ru] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 7:52 PM To: konrad.hin...@fastmail.net; nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl Subject: [Nix-dev] Blog post about Nix >I just posted an article about Nix on my blog: > > > https://khinsen.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/the-nix-package-manager-in-computational-science/ > >I'd appreciate any feedback, in particular if anything I wrote there is not >correct. Well, the inner workings of Nix being undocumented is incorrect - for example, Eelco Dolstra wrote a PhD thesis where this topic is nicely covered... _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
