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




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