Fantastic — congratulations. I might have to reschedule my prolonged Skyrim session planned for tomorrow in light of this…
~acs Atom X <at...@deadlyhead.com> writes: > 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
