[Nix-dev] Blog post about Nix

2012-05-15 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Michael Raskin writes:

  Well, the inner workings of Nix being undocumented is incorrect - for
  example, Eelco Dolstra wrote a PhD thesis where this topic is nicely
  covered...

Sander van der Burg - EWI writes:

  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

Thanks for those suggestions, I added references to them to my blog post!

Konrad.
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[Nix-dev] Blog post about Nix

2012-05-14 Thread Konrad Hinsen
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.

Konrad.
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Re: [Nix-dev] Blog post about Nix

2012-05-14 Thread Sander van der Burg - EWI
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

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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...



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Re: [Nix-dev] Blog post about Nix

2012-05-14 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from Sander van der Burg - EWI's message of Mon May 14 22:25:23 +0200 
2012:
 You can download his thesis from his homepage: 
 http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf
 Alternatively, I also have [..]: http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com

https://nixos.org/wiki/Getting_Help would be a nice place to add it.
There is NixOS papers and documentation which is missing that PhD?

Its not a wiki page, so I can't add it.

Marc Weber
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