New “guix refresh” command

2013-04-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! There’s a new ‘guix refresh’ command. The target audience is mostly Guix developers: the command reports GNU packages that are not up-to-date, and optionally updates the source files to reflect the new version number and tarball hash. (This is essentially a port of my ‘gnupdate’ program f

Re: Guix as GSOC Project

2013-04-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ashish Gupta skribis: >> Hmm yes. The idea here was rather to have a user interface, in Emacs, >> to manage packages with Guix. Are you familiar with package.el? That’s >> the kind of UI we’d aim for. >> >> What’s your experience writing Emacs Lisp code? > > I have read about package.el , but

Re: Guix as GSOC Project

2013-04-24 Thread Cyril Roelandt
On 04/23/2013 10:24 AM, Ashish Gupta wrote: The best part is that I'll be having a summer break from 27th May (the date when volunteers are announced) to 18th June. In those 20 days, i can do a lot of learning about whatever will be relevant. And after the college starts i can spend at least 35-4

Re: Guix as GSOC Project

2013-04-24 Thread Ashish Gupta
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Chris Dale < adventureonthehighs...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > It's still asking for Guile-2.0 , the binaries i have in /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin have versions 2.1.0. > Hello Ashish! I had this problem too. The easiest fix is to install the guile2 package from the AU

Re: Guix as GSOC Project

2013-04-24 Thread Chris Dale
> It's still asking for Guile-2.0 , the binaries i have in /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin have versions 2.1.0. Hello Ashish! I had this problem too. The easiest fix is to install the guile2 package from the AUR.

Re: Guix as GSOC Project

2013-04-24 Thread Ashish Gupta
> Hmm yes. The idea here was rather to have a user interface, in Emacs, > to manage packages with Guix. Are you familiar with package.el? That’s > the kind of UI we’d aim for. > > What’s your experience writing Emacs Lisp code? I have read about package.el , but as far as making Emacs Lisp scri