Eelco Dolstra
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This adds support for s3:// URIs in all places where Nix allows URIs, e.g. in builtins.fetchurl, builtins.fetchTarball, <nix/fetchurl.nix> and NIX_PATH. It allows fetching resources from private S3 buckets, using credentials obtained from the standard places (i.e. AWS_* environment variables, ~/.aws/credentials and the EC2 metadata server). This may not be super-useful in general, but since we already depend on aws-sdk-cpp, it's a cheap feature to add.
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Nix is a new take on package management that is fairly unique. Because of it's purity aspects, a lot of issues found in traditional package managers don't appear with Nix.
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