On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 02:08:15PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Derivations for the sources use the ‘guile’ package from Guix, and ‘guix > download’ uses whatever Guile was found when Guix was configured.
To be sure I understood correctly: guix build hello -S uses guile from guix, and guix download ftp://.../hello.tar.gz uses the guile with which guix was compiled? On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 03:34:29AM +0100, Cyril Roelandt wrote: > Development of Python packages is only possible on the core-updates > branch though - that might be an issue. I do not think so. One could use the core-updates branch to download the package sources. Once they are in the nix store, they can be built with master. Andreas