Re: Release imminent!

2013-01-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nikita Karetnikov skribis: >> ‘guix-build’ is for packagers, when you want to build something without >> actually adding it to your profile, whereas ‘guix-package -i’ is for >> when you want to add something to your profile. > >> Do you think this should be clarified somehow? > > Yes. Could you

Re: Release imminent!

2013-01-22 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
> ‘guix-build’ is for packagers, when you want to build something without > actually adding it to your profile, whereas ‘guix-package -i’ is for > when you want to add something to your profile. > Do you think this should be clarified somehow? Yes. Could you add something to the "Invoking guix-b

Re: Release imminent!

2013-01-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! We did it! ;-) Congratulations, and special thanks to you, Nikita and Andreas, for your hard work and for your confidence. Ludo’. pgpFp6LrlTeRS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Release imminent!

2013-01-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Nikita Karetnikov skribis: > 1. Can we change quotes? Not in Texinfo source: Texinfo (and TeX) interpret ASCII quotation marks and emit the right thing. > 2. "The build procedure for Guix is the same as for other GNU >software, and are not covered here." [1] > >I think that it woul

Re: Release imminent!

2013-01-15 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
> There are a few things to do by then: I’ll take care of augmenting the > doc, we’ll apply Nikita’s --roll-back patch and I’ll probably add > --upgrade. I have some comments about the manual [1] and questions about Guix itself. 1. Can we change quotes? "Although GNU programs traditionally use

Re: Release imminent!

2013-01-15 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
> One thing that could be improved: Right now, I still need to start the daemon > with > guix-daemon --build-users-group=nixbld I don't see the problem. Save the above to a file if you don't want to type the option. And run that file instead. Nikita pgpNWsP0YiFAy.pgp Description: PGP signatu

Re: Release imminent!

2013-01-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >> >> If --build-users-group is not given explicitly, check for the group >> >> nixbld and use it if it exists. >> I’m not sure if we want to automatically use a given group name. What >> if that name was used for somet

Re: Release imminent!

2013-01-13 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > >> If --build-users-group is not given explicitly, check for the group > >> nixbld and use it if it exists. > I’m not sure if we want to automatically use a given group name. What > if that name was used for something else on this machine? Gr

Re: Release imminent!

2013-01-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Andreas Enge skribis: > Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2013 schrieb Andreas Enge: [...] >> If --build-users-group is not given explicitly, check for the group >> nixbld and use it if it exists. I’m not sure if we want to automatically use a given group name. What if that name was used for someth

Re: Release imminent!

2013-01-13 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2013 schrieb Andreas Enge: > One thing that could be improved: Right now, I still need to start the > daemon with >guix-daemon --build-users-group=nixbld > Since this is the recommended setup (at least from the nix manual, I did > not check if the guix manual gives detail

Re: Release imminent!

2013-01-13 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Samstag, 12. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > Any other ideas? Comments? One thing that could be improved: Right now, I still need to start the daemon with guix-daemon --build-users-group=nixbld Since this is the recommended setup (at least from the nix manual, I did not check if th

Release imminent!

2013-01-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! The time has come! :-) I think we’ve reached, and even surpassed (integration of the daemon code, /bin/sh, etc.) the goals for the first milestone. So I’d like to release Guix 0.1 (on alpha.gnu.org) by the end of the week (ideally on Friday, 18th). There are a few things to do by then: