Eelco Dolstra
c27fcd94ce
checks should be relatively fast, but buildStatic depends on a lot of stuff that isn't in the binary cache (e.g. musl builds of Git and Mercurial that we probably don't need since we don't link against them...).
Nix
Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.
Installation
On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):
$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.
Building And Developing
See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to build nix from source with nix-build or how to get a development environment.
Additional Resources
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.