[Nix-dev] Blog post about Nix

Konrad Hinsen konrad.hinsen at fastmail.net
Tue May 15 16:22:50 CEST 2012


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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