Re: [SLUG] Nix Package Manager

From: Joe Brandt (vzd1s11k@verizon.net)
Date: Mon Jul 09 2007 - 17:33:26 EDT


On Sunday 08 July 2007 17:01, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> I just found out about an interesting purely functional (e.g. no side
> effects) package manager:
>
> http://nix.cs.uu.nl/
>
> It's based on a theory of package management, and features interesting
> attributes such as O(1) rollbacks (downgrades).

Yes, looks interesting....
but it's distribution builds are for Fedora Core 3 and Suse 9.0
Current are Fedora 7 and Opensuse 10.2.

How old is this project and is it currently maintained?
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