l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > ;; Announcement. -*- scheme -*- > > (define guix > (package > (name "guix") > (version "0.1") ; first alpha release > (source > (origin > (method url-fetch) > (uri "ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.1.tar.gz";) > (signature "ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.1.tar.gz.sig";) > (sha256 > "350286bcf37a4035244cdddfe7bd62e79bcd08db0ed35b48e1444302dfc52005"))) > (license gpl3+) > (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/";) > (synopsis "Functional package management for GNU") > (description > "GNU Guix is a functional package manager and associated free > software distribution of the GNU system. > > In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports > transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, > per-user profiles, and garbage collection (more details in the manual.) > Guix uses mechanisms from the Nix package management tool, with a Guile > Scheme programming interface. > > Guix comes with a small (~150 packages) and growing user-land software > distribution–i.e., it’s not a bootable distribution yet, but rather one > to be installed on top of a running GNU/Linux system. It includes > GNU libc 2.17, GCC 4.7.2, GNU Emacs 24.2, GNU Guile 2.0.7, and many more! > > The distribution with this release is available on i686 and x86_64 > Linux-based systems. It features source-based deployment only; > bootstrapping the distribution requires ~5 GiB of disk space. > > See the ROADMAP and TODO files for future directions. Building the > distribution is a cooperative effort, and you are invited to join!"))) > > ;; Ludovic, on behalf of the Guix team.
I cannot begin to express just how excited I am about this, and not just because it's an awesome project using Guile. Thank you, Ludo'. I'm fetching it now. -- Atom X
