Ryan Lahfa
Student at ENS Ulm in computer science, interested in formal verification and programming languages, NixOS developer and contributor in UEFI (Secure Boot) and boot ecosystems, NixOS release manager for 23.05 and 23.11.
Slightly addicted to Nixpkgs packaging and fascinated by the treasure induced by all of this data.
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Sessions
Have you ever pondered why our software projects have README to explain how to install them?
That's because it can be hard to automate the installation of the dependencies of a project.
In this work, we will challenge and explore the actual difficulty behind why do we still need READMEs and human instructions to install native dependencies for projects, via a research project, called BuildXYZ, which provides an automatic on-demand dependency dispenser based on a FUSE filesystem that will lazily provide the dependency whenever you actually ask for it on the filesystem.
We will show how such a system performs on tasks such as pip install numpy
and relate this to the increasing coupling between application-specific package managers and cross-language dependencies, such as Python library with Rust code, e.g. cryptography.