* Manual updates.
This commit is contained in:
parent
68022552d2
commit
95b49f8044
3 changed files with 120 additions and 19 deletions
|
@ -11,27 +11,41 @@
|
||||||
<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>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
@ -26,8 +26,7 @@
|
||||||
</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
|
||||||
|
@ -48,8 +47,10 @@
|
||||||
</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
|
||||||
|
|
|
@ -66,6 +66,92 @@
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</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>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
Loading…
Reference in a new issue