Re: New to Guix

2013-06-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Commit 9bf3c1a updates the ‘HACKING’ file and the manual with useful info that we discussed here. If anyone thinks of other things worth mentioning there, please let me know, or send a patch! Ludo’.

Re: New to Guix

2013-06-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Konrad Hinsen skribis: > > What would you like to package? (It would be great to discuss that to > > avoid duplication.) > > Stuff I use myself, meaning software at the intersection of "Python" > and "scientific computing". Unless someone is already working on it, > I'd choose NumPy as my firs

Re: New to Guix

2013-06-03 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Exactly. We package only free software, as per the broad definition > that can be found at . So it's pretty much the same rules as for Debian. Nice. > Since you’re already familiar with Nix already, you may like the ‘guix

Re: New to Guix

2013-06-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > "Jason Self" skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès said: >> >>> Exactly. We package only free software, as per the broad definition >>> that can be found at . >> >> May I also suggest that, if there is an intention to

Re: New to Guix

2013-06-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
"Jason Self" skribis: > Ludovic Courtès said: > >> Exactly. We package only free software, as per the broad definition >> that can be found at . > > May I also suggest that, if there is an intention to make a free > distro, this following the guidelin

Re: New to Guix

2013-06-03 Thread Jason Self
Ludovic Courtès said: > Exactly. We package only free software, as per the broad definition > that can be found at . May I also suggest that, if there is an intention to make a free distro, this following the guidelines in this might also be appropriat

Re: New to Guix

2013-06-03 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
> Hi everyone, Hi! > I will probably write a couple of package definitions in the course of > my further explorations, so I wonder how to contribute them to the > project. Is it OK to post them to this mailing list? Sure, I send the output of 'git format-patch', for instance. What would you lik

Re: New to Guix

2013-06-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Konrad Hinsen skribis: > I finally found some time to test-install Guix and so far I like what > I have seen. I had been playing with Nix in the past, so much of Guix > is not completely new to me, and Scheme instead of Nix+bash is a > welcome relief ;-) Heh, welcome! :-) > I will probabl

New to Guix

2013-06-03 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi everyone, I finally found some time to test-install Guix and so far I like what I have seen. I had been playing with Nix in the past, so much of Guix is not completely new to me, and Scheme instead of Nix+bash is a welcome relief ;-) I will probably write a couple of package definitions in the