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Today, with the tests inside a `tests` intermingled with the
corresponding library's source code, we have a few problems:

- We have to be careful that wildcards don't end up with tests being
  built as part of Nix proper, or test headers being installed as part
  of Nix proper.

- Tests in libraries but not executables is not right:

  - It means each executable runs the previous unit tests again, because
    it needs the libraries.

  - It doesn't work right on Windows, which doesn't want you to load a
    DLL just for the side global variable . It could be made to work
    with the dlopen equivalent, but that's gross!

This reorg solves these problems.

There is a remaining problem which is that sibbling headers (like
`hash.hh` the test header vs `hash.hh` the main `libnixutil` header) end
up shadowing each other. This PR doesn't solve that. That is left as
future work for a future PR.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-12-01 10:48:58 -05:00
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README.md

Nix

Open Collective supporters Test

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 and first steps

Visit nix.dev for installation instructions and beginner tutorials.

Full reference documentation can be found in the Nix manual.

Building And Developing

See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to set up a development environment and build Nix from source.

Contributing

Check the contributing guide if you want to get involved with developing Nix.

Additional Resources

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.