Thanks sirgazil. That is very helpful. Yes, it might be that astropy has many dependencies.
I will take a look at that video and also get a better handle on packaging. Cheers Roy. On Mon, 11 May 2020, 14:56 sirgazil, <sirga...@zoho.com> wrote: > ---- On Mon, 11 May 2020 07:34:09 -0500 Roy Lemmon <r...@roylemmon.com> > wrote ---- > > Hi, > > > > I would like to ask about the general philosophy of setting up a python > > environment under guix. > > > > For other linux systems I have used pip to manage python packages and > > libraries. > > > > In guix is the idea that guix replaces pip for managing packages and > > libraries ? > > I think so, yes, ideally. > > > So I would create a python-package for any missing python > > packages ? > > Yes. > > > In the guix package lists, I can find many of the python > > libraries but there are a few missing that I would like, eg. astropy - > an > > astronomy analysis library. So should I be creating a guix package for > that > > rather than installing with pip ? > > That's the idea, yes: to have all Python packages available in Guix. That > way, if your projects depend on Python packages and non-Python packages, > you can specify all the requirements of your projects conveniently in a > Guix manifest file (instead of having a requirements file for pip and > another requirements file for some OS package manager, and possibly, > another requirements file for another programmnig language used in a > project). > > In practice, though, your projects could require many packages that are > not yet in Guix. For example, astropy could depend on other packages that > are not available, and those packages depend on other packages that are not > available, and so on. To package them all would be a job in itself, and you > would not have time to work on your project. So, depending on your > specific case, you might still need to use Python virtual environments and > pip to get things done. For the latter you can use Python's venv, or > poetry, or other tools that are already available in Guix for managing > Python projects and environments. > > I recommend to watch the https://guix.gnu.org/videos/ for an introduction > to packaging. > > > > > --- > https://sirgazil.bitbucket.io/ > > > >
