Eelco Dolstra
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Source tarballs are not very useful anymore. People who want to build from source can also just build from the Git repository. Once upon a time, the source tarball also saved users from needing a few dependencies (e.g. bison and flex) but those are dwarfed by the other dependencies, so it's no longer worth it. Note: the release script should be updated to copy the vendoredCrates tarball.
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Nix is a new take on package management that is fairly unique. Because of its purity aspects, a lot of issues found in traditional package managers don't appear with Nix.
To find out more about the tool, usage and installation instructions, please read the manual, which is available on the Nix website at https://nixos.org/nix/manual.
Contributing
Take a look at the Hacking Section of the manual. It helps you to get started with building Nix from source.
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit.