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The Nix project addresses many of these concerns through a purely functional package management paradigm, yet it does not eliminate all problems and can introduce new ones. This thesis performs a literature review of the current research state on Nix, mapping historical deployment tool issues and proposing directions for future Nix research and development.","Aalto University School of Science  \nBachelor's Programme in Science and Technology  \nNix: A Solution With Problems  \nBachelor's thesis  \n10 July 2026  \nMatias Zwinger  \nAalto-yliopisto  \nPerustieteiden korkeakoulu Teknistieteellinen kandidaattiohjelma  \nKANDIDAATTITYÖNTIIVISTELMÄ  \n\n| Tekijä Matias Zwinger |\n| --- |\n| Työn nimi Nix: A Solution With Problems |\n| Päiväys 10. heinäkuuta 2026 |\n| Sivumäärä 46 |\n| Pääaine Tietotekniikka\u003Cbr>Koodi SCI3027 |\n| Vastuuopettaja Lauri Savioja\u003Cbr>Työn ohjaaja Sergei Kozlukov |\n| Ohjelmistojen käyttöönotto (software deployment) on ohjelmistojen jakelua loppukäyttäjien koneille. Tätä varten tehdyt työkalut kärsivät monista ongelmista, jotka liittyvät esimerkiksi toistettavuuden puutteeseen ja riippuvuuksien ratkaisemiseen. Monet näistä ongelmista on onnistuneesti ratkaistu Nix-projektissa implementoidun puhtaasti funktionaalisen paketinhallintaparadigman avulla. Nix on Eelco Dolstran vuonna 2003 julkaisema ohjelmistoprojekti, jonka pääasiallinen komponentti on edellämainittua paradigmaa hyödyntävä paketinhallintatyökalu. Nix ei kuitenkaan ole onnistunut ratkaisemaan kaikkia tavanomaisten työkalujenongelmia. Se on jopa luonut uusia, uniikkeja ongelmia. Tämän opinnäytetyön tavoitteena on kirjallisuuskatsauksen avulla kartoittaa Nixin nykyisen tutkimustyöntilanne ja ehdottaa Nixin yhteisölle suuntaa tulevaisuuden tutkimus-sekä kehitystyölle.\u003Cbr>Opinnäytetyö on jaettu kolmeen osa-alueeseen. Ensimmäiseksi tarkastellaanongelmia, joita ohjelmistojen käyttöönoton eri osa-alueilla on historiallisesti kohdattu, esimerkiksi toistettavuuden puute, riippuvuuksien ratkaiseminen ja luottamus. Neljä pääasiallista ohjelmistokategoriaa joita tutkitaan, ovatrakennusjärjestelmät, paketinhallintatyökalut, konfiguraationhallinta jakehitysympäristöt. Kunkin kategorian suosittuja työkaluja käytetään esimerkkeinä ongelmien havainnollistamiseksi. Seuraavaksi esitellään Nix lyhyellä teknisellä katsauksella ja näytetään, millä tavalla se ratkaisee joitain aiemmin esitettyjä ongelmia.\u003Cbr>Koska Nix on ensimmäinen suuri projekti, joka hyödyntää tätä verrattain uutta ja eksperimentaalista funktionaalista lähestymistapaa, se on kaukana täydellisestä ratkaisusta. Siitä syystä kolmanneksi analysoidaan Nixin aiheuttamia uusiaongelmia sekä vanhoja ongelmia, joita Nix ei ole toistaiseksi pystynyt ratkaisemaan, esimerkiksi luottamus sekä rakennusympäristön epäpuhtaus. Lisäksi käsitellään muutamia Nix-yhteisön esittämiä ratkaisuja näihin ongelmiin. |\n\n\n| Nix syntyi alun perin puhtaasti akateemisena projektina ja se näkyy edelleen teknisen velan muodossa. Nix on kuitenkin tällä hetkellä paras kandidaattiohjelmistojen käyttöönoton ongelmien ratkaisuun. Yhteisön tulisi alkuperäisen Nixprojektin parantelun ja kehityksen ohella myös tutkia vaihtoehtoja, kuten Snix-ja GNU Guix-projekteja. Vaikka Nix kärsiikin teknisestä velasta ja vaihtoehdot ovatvähissä sekä vielä kehityksensä alkupäässä, vaikuttaa puhtaasti funktionaalinen paradigma parhaimmalta tieltä tulevaisuuden kehitykselle. |\n| --- |\n| Avainsanat DevOps, konfiguraationhallinta, käännösautomaatio,\u003Cbr>käännösjärjestelmät, Nix, ohjelmistojen käyttöönotto, paketinhallintajärjestelmät, toistettavuus |\n| Kieli Englanti |\n\nAalto University  \nSchool of Science  \nBachelor's Programme in Science and Technology  \nBACHELOR'S THESIS SUMMARY  \n\n| Author Matias Zwinger |\n| --- |\n| Thesis title Nix: A Solution With Problems |\n| date 10 July 2026 |\n| No. of pages 46 |\n| Major Computer science\u003Cbr>Course code SCI3027 |\n| Main teacher Lauri Savioja\u003Cbr>Supervisor Sergei Kozlukov |\n| Software deployment suffers from numerous problems pertaining, for example, to reproducibility and dependency resolution. 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