Hi, On jeu., 26 mai 2022 at 00:24, Arun Isaac <arunis...@systemreboot.net> wrote:
>> Quick question about guix-forge. Why laminar instead of cuirass as >> the CI? > > Two reasons: > > - Cuirass requires a PostgreSQL database, but I wanted guix-forge to be > as stateless as possible and definitely not require a complex database > server like PostgreSQL. Laminar just uses sqlite. Initially, Cuirass was using SQLite but then switched [1] to PostgreSQL. The main reason is scalability. I do not know if it is a technically doable to have two SQL backends and let the user pick the one they prefer. For sure, it is not doable from a maintenance point of view. About the complexity of PostgreSQL, I think the Guix services [2,3] help here. 1: <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-cuirass.git/commit/?id=cbc462679d2647ecc897231cc78781a90fa2441a> 2: <https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Continuous-Integration> 3: <https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Database-Services> Cheers, simon
