Hello Ludovic, Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.cour...@inria.fr> writes:
> Hello, > > Clément Lassieur <clem...@lassieur.org> skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.cour...@inria.fr> writes: >> >>> Hello Guix! >>> >>> There’s a little-known but neat program that Roel Janssen wrote called >>> hpcguix-web. It’s a web UI (with JavaScript) that allows you to browse >>> packages; the UI can be customized, and Roel’s institution, for >>> instance, customizes it to provide instructions for their clusters. You >>> can see it in action here: >>> >>> https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/browse >>> >>> Until now hpcguix-web would just allow you to browse the list of >>> packages of the Guix it was built against (it used ’fold-packages’, >>> etc.) >> >> Would it make sense to integrate it into Cuirass? We could browse >> packages on Cuirass and to each package would be associated a link to >> its build status on different architectures, etc. >> >> What do you think? > > Good question. Some sort of integration is desirable, with links as you > mention. Now Cuirass is not specifically about packages, conceptually > at least, so IMO having both features in the same tool would “break the > abstraction.” Yes I agree. I wonder though: is there a way to know if a specific derivation is a package? > What we could do, though, is run hpcguix-web and Cuirass on the same > machine, and customize hpcguix-web such that it includes links to > Cuirass builds, for example. hpcguix-web already provides a level of > customization that should make it easy. Sounds good! Clément
