Spake Joe Brandt on Monday, July 09, 2007 at 05:33PM -0400:
> 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?
http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nix-unstable-latest/
quoting that page:
> This page provides release nix-0.11pre8948 of Nix. It was generated
> automatically on 2007-07-05 20:48:00 UTC
Yes, it is still maintained. The mailing list is fairly active, too.
...
Gah, I must stop using reply instead of list reply.
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