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Terminology: run time or run-time or runtime

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Description

Documentation needs consistent terminology. Define the term to use across all documents.

Wiktionary: run-time

In Nix we have at least three phases which we usually call <phase>(' '|'-'|'')time:

  • evaluate
  • build
  • run

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Search the repository documentation for the run-time, runtime, and related evaluate-time and build-time variants, then review how the three phases are described. Done means one agreed terminology choice is documented and applied consistently across all affected documents.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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