flake-compat

Tech stack & purpose

flake-compat is a compatibility shim for the Nix package manager that enables the use of Nix flakes—a dependency management feature—on older or alternative versions of Nix that lack native flake support, including stable Nix releases and versions prior to 2.4. Built in Nix, the project provides functions that fetch flake inputs and invoke the flake's outputs function, returning attributes like `defaultNix`, `shellNix`, and `outputs` for integration with existing Nix workflows. Originally created by Eelco Dolstra, flake-compat is now maintained by the NixOS community under the NixOS organization.

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Contributors

• Eelco Dolstra47 commits
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  Robert Hensing20 commits · 415 followers
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  Matt Sturgeon3 commits · 60 followers
• Maximilian Bosch2 commits
• Pol Dellaiera2 commits
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  Rebecca Turner1 commits · 212 followers
• Antoine Eiche1 commits
• Gerg-L1 commits
• Piper McCorkle1 commits
• Charles Baynham1 commits
• Sandro1 commits
• David Arnold1 commits
• Cole Helbling1 commits
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  Matthew Bauer1 commits · 330 followers
• Artturin1 commits
• Adrian Gierakowski1 commits
• Luc Perkins1 commits
• Alper Çelik1 commits
• Azure Zanculmarktum1 commits
• zimbatm1 commits
• Sergei Zimmerman1 commits
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  John Ericson1 commits · 516 followers