README.md

ExNar

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An Elixir Library to create + unpack Nix Archives. Only directly serializes + deserializes, with no intermediate state that can be inspected (PRs welcome :)).

Usage

# Deserialize 
ExNar.deserialize! (File.read!("/path/to/.nar"), "")
#=> :ok
# Serialize
ExNar.serialize!("/path/to/serialize")
#=> <<13,0,0,0,...>>

# Serialize byte stream
ExNar.serialize!("hello world", :bytestream)
#=> <<13,0,0,0,...>>

Installation

If available in Hex, the package can be installed by adding ex_nar to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:ex_nar, "~> 0.2.0"}
  ]
end

Documentation can be generated with ExDoc and published on HexDocs. Once published, the docs can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/ex_nar.

Sources

Thanks to Eelco Dolstra, for the specification The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model, PG 93, Figure 5.2