GNU Guix 1.2.0 released

We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix 1.2.0, which also marks the eighth anniversary of Guix today. This release corresponds to 10,248 commits over 6.5 months by 201 people. It includes many new features, user interface and performance improvements, as well as many bug fixes—see below

GNU Guix 1.1.0 released

We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix 1.1.0. This release corresponds to 14,078 commits over 11 months by 201 people. It includes many new features, user interface and performance improvements, as well as many bug fixes—see below for a list of changes. Read more about today’s announc

GNU Guix 1.0.1 released

2 Josh Holland 21 Julien Lepiller 1 LaFreniere, Joseph 4 Leo Famulari 80 Ludovic Courtès 41 Marius Bakke 24 Mark H Weaver 3 Mathieu Othacehe 29 Maxim Cournoyer 8 Miguel 16 Nicolas Goaziou 3 Oleg Pykhalov 7 Pierre Neidhardt 272 Ric

GNU Guix 1.0.0 released

7 Gábor Boskovits 25 Hartmut Goebel 1 HiPhish 8 Ivan Petkov 2 Jack Hill 2 Jan Nieuwenhuizen 15 Jelle Licht 3 Jens M 6 Jonathan Brielmaier 1 Jovany Leandro G.C 145 Julien Lepiller 44 Katherine Cox-Buday 58 Kei Kebreau 1

GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.16.0 released

Kei Kebreau 1 Kenny Ballou 4 Konrad Hinsen 9 Kyle Meyer 4 Laura Lazzati 157 Leo Famulari 408 Ludovic Courtès 4 Luther Thompson 1 Madalin Ionel-Patrascu 2 Manuel Graf 610 Marius Bakke 165 Mark H Weaver 2 Mark Meyer 6 Mathieu Lirzin

GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.15.0 released

We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.15.0, representing 7,020 commits by 100 people over 7 months. This release brings us close to our goals for 1.0, so it’s probably one of the last zero-dot-something releases. • About GNU Guix is a transactional package manager for

GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.14.0 released

We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.14.0, representing 5,192 commits by 88 people over 6 months. • About GNU Guix is a transactional package manager for the GNU system. The Guix System Distribution, GuixSD, is an advanced distribution of the GNU system. In addi

GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.13.0 released

vier 6 Ethan R. Jones 6 Federico Beffa 8 Feng Shu 1 George Clemmer 1 Gábor Boskovits 22 Hartmut Goebel 4 Huang Ying 2 Jan Nieuwenhuizen 2 Jelle Licht 38 John Darrington 11 José Miguel Sánchez García 134 Julien Lepiller 59 Kei Kebr

Back from the Reproducible Build Summit, 2nd edition

Hello GNU folks! Here’s a report from the 2nd Reproducible Build Summit that took place this week! https://gnu.org/software/guix/news/reproducible-build-summit-2nd-edition.html Ludo’. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.11.0 released

n 1 Erik Edrosa 2 Federico Beffa 1 Francesco Frassinelli 1 George Clemmer 10 Hartmut Goebel 16 Jan Nieuwenhuizen 4 Jelle Licht 1 Jochem Raat 8 John Darrington 1 John J Foerch 2 John J. Foerch 1 Jookia 32 Kei Kebreau 157

GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.10.0 released

effa 2 Florian Paul Schmidt 1 George Clemmer 9 Jan Nieuwenhuizen 1 Jessica Tallon 3 Jochem Raat 1 John Darrington 1 Jookia 1 Justus Winter 2 Kyle Meyer 198 Leo Famulari 477 Ludovic Courtès 1 Lukas Gradl 2 Manolis Ragkousis

GNU Shepherd 0.3 released

mproved Please report bugs to bug-g...@gnu.org. Join guix-de...@gnu.org and gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org for discussions. Thanks to everyone who contributed! 19 Alex Kost 1 Andy Wingo 2 David Michael 3 David Thompson 1 Fabian Harfert 73 Ludovic Courtès 10 Mathieu

Reproducible GNU!

Hello! I had the pleasure to attend the first “Reproducible Build Summit” this week, wonderfully well organized by Debian hackers Holger and Lunar, along with other brilliant people, and with the support of the Linux Foundation, the Open Tech Fund, and Google. https://reproducible-builds.org/ev

GNU Guix 0.9.0 released

56 Efraim Flashner 28 Eric Bavier 19 Eric Dvorsak 15 Federico Beffa 4 Jeff Mickey 1 Julian Graham 8 Leo Famulari 343 Ludovic Courtès 9 Manolis Ragkousis 2 Marek Benc 123 Mark H Weaver 25 Mathieu Lirzin 170 Paul van der Walt 10 Pjotr P

Re: GNU Guix 0.8.3 released

Hi, Please don’t cross-post to the whole world (I suppose a free mail user agent would have honored ‘Mail-Followup-To’...) Markus Gothe skribis: > I donnu about Guile Scheme, heard from former Cygnus ppl (including Ian > Taylor IIRC) it was a mistake. That sounds like hindsight from the Cygnu

GNU Guix 0.8.3 released

6 Efraim Flashner 33 Eric Bavier 8 Federico Beffa 1 Jeff Mickey 283 Ludovic Courtès 7 Manolis Ragkousis 175 Mark H Weaver 7 Mathieu Lirzin 15 Paul van der Walt 4 Pjotr Prins 91 Ricardo Wurmus 37 Sou Bunnbu (宋文武) 4 Taylan Ulrich Bayı

GNU Guix 0.8.2 released

ex Kost 1 Alex Sassmannshausen 4 Alexander I.Grafov (Axel) 134 Andreas Enge 22 Andy Wingo 3 Christopher Allan Webber 3 Cyril Roelandt 5 David Hashe 41 David Thompson 365 Eric Bavier 37 Federico Beffa 12 Jason Self 460 Ludovic Courtès 3

GNU Guix 0.8.1 released

..@gnu.org. Join guix-de...@gnu.org and #guix on Freenode for discussions. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release: 16 Alex Kost 62 Andreas Enge 1 Cyril Roelandt 5 David Thompson 31 Eric Bavier 47 Federico Beffa 8 Jason Self 10 John Darrington

Re: Guix != GNU GSD ==> True

Let me suggest some sort of a Tobin tax: for every message on this topic, the sender owes Guix a patch. I’m sure we can reach 1.0 very quickly, and we get the best of both worlds! Thank you for your help! Ludo’.

Re: What to call Guix

Olaf, this discussion is over. With approval from RMS, the standalone distribution is now called the “Guix System Distribution”, a name that happens to be consensual among contributors. Thanks, Ludo’.

Re: What to call Guix

Richard Stallman skribis: > Guix System Distribution is ok, Perfect, thanks. > but we should not abbreviate it as GSD; that would lead to various > kinds of confusion. What confusion do you have in mind? I think we won’t be able to prevent people from internalizing the abbreviation. Ludo’.

Re: What to call Guix

Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > GSD could also mean "Guix Software Distribution" or "Guix System > Distribution" (obviously "System" refers to GNU). I fully support it! (Specifically, “Guix System Distribution.”) Thank you, Ludo’.

Re: What to call Guix

Richard Stallman skribis: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > > I would like to suggest the name “GNU Soft

Re: What to call Guix

Rastus Vernon skribis: > I would like to suggest the name “GNU Software Distribution”, as I > believe it has none of the problems the other suggestions have. I like it! >From a quick poll on #guix it seems to have achieved more consensus than any other proposal so far. Ludo’.

Re: What to call Guix

Richard Stallman skribis: > > "Avant-garde" strikes me as something one might use to describe Guix in > > passing but not as something that would use as part of its > > formal/official designation. I also associate it more with art than > > technology. > > How about "advanced"? I think

Who is “we”?

Richard Stallman skribis: > We don't consider [...] I find this a confusing use of “we”. IMO, one cannot on one hand say that GNU maintainers are only trusted for the technical job they were “recruited” for¹, and on the other lump them together in a hypothetical “we”. Maybe “we” was meant to r

Re: Democratic Leadership

Surely, structures can be hijacked. Nevertheless, I believe it’s not only possible, but also necessary, to give more weight to the opinions of GNU maintainers and hackers in the GNU project, without compromising the project’s goals. Debian may not be perfect but it has achieved that to a large de

Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?

Brandon Invergo skribis: > This goes back to my point that the problem with calling something "The > GNU System" is that it implies that there is a single, specific set of > software that defines the system. The kernel issue then comes crashing > to the forefront: if the GNU project has two kern

Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?

Richard Stallman skribis: > GNU/Linux distros are variants of the GNU operating system. Agreed. In practice, though, people don’t refer to them this way. > There are two issues with the idea of designating Guix as "the GNU system." > > 1. The GNU system, properly speaking, should contain the G

Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?

Brandon Invergo skribis: > Personally I disagree with Debian referring to itself as an operating > system, since it's clearly a distribution of software that can comprise > operating system I also dislike of that tendency to replace “distro” by “operating system” (and that applies to pretty much

Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?

Hi, Brandon, Brandon Invergo skribis: > I would argue that rather than talking about producing The Official GNU > System, we should be talking about producing a *reference* distribution > of the GNU system. The Guix guys are effectively doing that in my > opinion and I think it's great. Now, i

Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?

Hi Felipe, I sympathize with what you’re saying. FWIW, the distro built by the GNU Guix project has been making steady progress. It’s surely far from being a “drop-in replacement” for Trisquel or other established distros yet, but I think it’s becoming quite good for hacker-style use cases, alth

Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?

a...@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) skribis: > Putting explicit effort on release "the" GNU system would not help any Alfred, as you very well know, the effort has been put already. Ludo’.

GNU Guix 0.8 released

sr, vi Please report bugs to bug-g...@gnu.org. Join guix-de...@gnu.org and #guix on Freenode for discussions. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release: 61 Alex Kost 55 Andreas Enge 11 Cyril Roelandt 1 Cyrill Schenkel 49 David Thompson 41 Eric Bavier

Request for testing

Hello, GNU Guix 0.8 (alpha) is tentatively scheduled for release on Nov. 18th (soon!). Further testing of the OS installation image would be welcome. A bootable USB image for x86_64 can be found at: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/gnu-usb-install-20141114.x86_64.xz http://www.fdn.

Re: Join the Guix hackathon, Sep. 27-28

The hackathon is tomorrow! Make sure to look at , edit it, etc. I plan to be on #guix around 8AM UTC (10AM CEST), see you there! Ludo’.

Re: Join the Guix hackathon, Sep. 27-28

John Sullivan skribis: > Cool, we'd be happy to promote this in http://fsf.org/events if you can > email the necessary information (look at any individual event listing > there for an example) to i...@fsf.org saying that I suggested it. Will do, thanks for helping. Ludo’.

Join the Guix hackathon, Sep. 27-28

The GNU Guix¹ project is organizing a hackathon on September 27th and 28th, 2014. The hackathon will take place primarily on-line, on the #guix channel on Freenode. We have started collecting a list of hacking ideas². Feel free to stop by on guix-de...@gnu.org and make more suggestions! The hac

GNU Guix 0.7 released

ng 49 Andreas Enge 2 Cyril Roelandt 4 Cyrill Schenkel 14 David Thompson 58 Eric Bavier 12 Jason Self 29 John Darrington 474 Ludovic Courtès 2 Manolis Ragkousis 11 Mark H Weaver 1 Nikita Karetnikov 1 Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer Ludovi

GNU dmd 0.2 released

We are pleased to announce GNU dmd version 0.2, its second alpha release with a positive version number. • About GNU dmd is a “daemon managing daemons” (or “daemons-managing daemon”?)–i.e., a service manager that provides a replacement for the service-managing capabilities of SysV init (or

GNU Guix 0.6 released

for discussions. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release: 1 Alex Sassmannshausen 2 Alírio Eyng 53 Andreas Enge 2 Cyprien Nicolas 13 Cyril Roelandt 6 David Thompson 23 Eric Bavier 25 John Darrington 377 Ludovic Courtès 4 Manolis R

GNU Guix 0.5 released

We are pleased to announce release of GNU Guix version 0.5, representing 395 commits by 11 people over 2 months. This release comes with an updated QEMU virtual machine image that shows preliminary work toward building a stand-alone GNU system with Guix. The image uses the GNU Linux-Libre kernel a

System configuration with Guix

Hi! Commit 033adfe in Guix adds the (gnu system) Guile module, which is a first stab at providing a declarative system configuration mechanism. This is inspired by NixOS, and is also probably familiar to users of Puppet or Chef. Currently it’s only used to build a QEMU image, but in the not-too-d

GNU dmd 0.1 released

We are pleased to announce GNU dmd version 0.1, the first of a series of alpha releases having a positive version number. • About GNU dmd is a “daemon managing daemons” (or “daemons-managing daemon”?)–i.e., a service manager that provides a replacement for the service-managing capabilities

GNU dmd road map

Hello! Here’s a tiny road map I’ve come up with for dmd. First I’m hoping to release 0.1 within a couple of weeks, just before Guix 0.5. I’ve added support for power-off/reboot recently, where dmd first stops all the services (yeah, that’s pretty useful ;-)). Other things I’d want for 0.1 is a

Re: Happy 30th birthday, GNU! GNU Hurd 0.5 released

Hello! Thomas Schwinge skribis: > It is the GNU project's 30th birthday, and we are pleased to announce > version 0.5 of the GNU Hurd, . Woow, this is great news! Thanks to everyone who’s been involved over the years, and thanks for carrying out the release.

GNU Guix 0.4 released

We are pleased to celebrate GNU’s 30th anniversary with the release of GNU Guix version 0.4, representing 300 commits by 5 people over 2 months. This release comes with a QEMU virtual machine image that demonstrates preliminary work toward building a stand-alone GNU system with Guix. The image use

GNU Guix hackathon on Sep. 28-29

Hello, GNU Guix [0] joins other projects in celebrating GNU’s 30th birthday this week-end [1]. Join us for an on-line hackathon on #guix on the Freenode IRC network on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 28-29! Tasks will include packaging your favorite software, hunting bugs, and improving stand-alone b

GNU Guix 0.3 released

We are pleased to announce GNU Guix version 0.3, the third alpha release, representing 254 commits by 6 people over 2 months. • About GNU Guix is a functional package manager and distribution of the GNU system. In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transacti

Re: GNU Guix 0.2 released

Hi, Matthew Lien skribis: > 2 minor (webpage) bug report: > > 1. the link available as pre-built > binariesin > 'Status' on > http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ is dead. > (hydra.gnu.org down?) Yeah, the web server at hydra.gnu.org is intermitt

Re: GNU Guix 0.2 released

(Stripping Cc list.) Brandon Invergo skribis: > Guix, on the other hand, is a full package manager that will eventually > form the foundation of a GNU distribution. It has far more features as > a package manager, including some really novel ones that go above and > beyond the usual package man

Re: GNU Guix 0.2 released

Hi Germán, Xue Fuqiao skribis: > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Germán Arias wrote: >> On 2013-05-13 17:12:07 -0600 Xue Fuqiao wrote: >> >>> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>>> We are pleased to announce GNU Guix versio

GNU Guix 0.2 released

We are pleased to announce GNU Guix version 0.2, the second alpha release, representing 580 commits by 5 people over 4 months. • About GNU Guix is a functional package manager and distribution of the GNU system. In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transact

Boot-to-Guile!

Hello! To celebrate Guile 2.0’s second anniversary [0], I’m happy to announce this Boot-to-Guile QEMU image! http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/boot-to-guile.qcow2 sha1: c796a91be2efcae192a4032c13821c52ea9db07f sig: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/boot-to-guile.qcow2.asc

GNU Guix 0.1 released (alpha)

;; Announcement. -*- scheme -*- (define guix (package (name "guix") (version "0.1") ; first alpha release (source (origin (method url-fetch) (uri "ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.1.tar.gz"

Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

Hi, Richard Stallman skribis: > Perhaps there could be a prebuilt binary for package A that > corresponds to a given set of other installed packages. > There could be many prebuilt binaries for package A > to correspond to various different sets of other installed packages. > When you upgrade on

Re: Introducing GNU Guix

Hi John, John Sullivan skribis: > I thought that having a periodic coordinated release of as much of the > GNU code as possible would have many beneficial effects that don't have > to do with a user actually installing every program included in the > release: Thanks for reminding this! Just i

Re: Introducing GNU Guix

Adam Sampson skribis: > Something like Guix is the right way to go if you're designing a new > system from scratch, but Stow is very effective for simple package > management inside an existing system. Agreed. Stow is a lightweight tool that certainly has its use in some contexts. Ludo’.

Re: Introducing GNU Guix

Hi, Adam Spiers skribis: > So you should probably not worry too much about any overlap with Guix, > although it *may* be instructive to consider the fundamental design > differences between a symlink-based approach and one which does not > rely on symlinks. Note that Nix & Guix use one director

Re: Introducing GNU Guix

Hi Brandon, Brandon Invergo skribis: >> I am pleased to announce GNU Guix, an on-going project to build a >> functional package manager and associated free software distribution of >> the GNU system. > > Congrats on the release! Note that it’s not a release yet, but you can help make it happen

Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Introducing GNU Guix

Hi, Adam Spiers skribis: > Thanks for the info. I expect that by far the most common FAQ arising > when people see this project for the first time is what it offers over > existing package managers out there, in particular rpm and apt which > are presumably the most popular by quite some margin

Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Introducing GNU Guix

Hi Luke, "luke.leighton" skribis: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:38 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>> >>> I am pleased to announce GNU Guix, an on-going project to build a >>> functiona

Introducing GNU Guix

I am pleased to announce GNU Guix, an on-going project to build a functional package manager and associated free software distribution of the GNU system. https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/guix/ In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-ba

Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

Hi, Simon Josefsson skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: [...] >> Looking at >> <http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/3.3.5-gnu/>, I >> can see signatures for various tarballs, but not the tarballs >> themselves. Am I missin

Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

Hi, Richard Stallman skribis: > Yes, I ll do that. Technically though, Linux-Libre is a set of scripts > that touch .c files. [...] > Please point at those sources to get the .h files. Looking at , I can see signatures

Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

Hi, Richard Stallman skribis: > > I suggest that, for shared libraries, the hash should disregard the > > library's current version, and consider only the interface version. > > That way, replacement of the shared library won't require any change > > in the installed executable.

Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

Richard Stallman skribis: > No. Basically, each package is installed in its own directory, pretty > much à la GNU Stow. However, the directory name contains the hash of > all the inputs used to build that package (source code, compiler, > libraries, build scripts, etc.) Thus, w

Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

Hi, Richard Stallman skribis: > Perhaps you were asking about previously installed packages linked > against a vulnerable libc, for example? Again, those packages remain > vulnerable, until you upgrade to the new version, that links against the > fixed libc. > > Why can't the al

Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

Hi Simon, Simon Josefsson skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Actually, each user as a forest of symlinks under ~/.nix-profile >> pointing to packages installed by the user. >> >> So in the above example, you would typically have $HOME/.nix-p

Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

Hi, Richard Stallman skribis: > >> [2] > https://gitorious.org/guix/guix/blobs/master/distro/packages/base.scm > > > > Any particular reason it uses kernel.org Linux instead of Linux libre? > > No. Currently it s just a user-land software distro, like GSRC, so only > the he

Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

Simon Josefsson skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Simon Josefsson skribis: >> >>> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: [...] >> (Similarly, in Debian, packages remain vulnerable until you run “apt-get >> upgrade”.) > > I

Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

Simon Josefsson skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> [2] https://gitorious.org/guix/guix/blobs/master/distro/packages/base.scm > > Any particular reason it uses kernel.org Linux instead of Linux libre? No. Currently it’s just a user-land software distro,

Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

Simon Josefsson skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> All in all, from experience with NixOS, while security upgrades are more >> demanding on Nix-based systems, they are not much of an issue in >> practice. > > Thanks for explaining. However I

Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

Hi Simon, Simon Josefsson skribis: > Great, I'd love to use a technically appealing GNU-approved distro. The > issue I identified early on with the NixOS ideas is how to deal with > security upgrades. IIRC, the old response was that this is an open > issue and further research is required. Ho

Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

Hi, Quiliro Ordóñez skribis: > El 08/10/12 06:24, Ludovic Courtès escribió: >> >>>> My goal is to eventually submit Guix and the Guix-based distro as >>>> GNU projects, with the hope that we can build a GNU distribution that is >>>> 100% free soft

Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

Hi, Quiliro Ordóñez skribis: > El 07/10/12 15:59, Ludovic Courtès escribió: [...] >> My goal is to eventually submit Guix and the Guix-based distro as >> GNU projects, with the hope that we can build a GNU distribution that is >> 100% free software and technically mor

Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

Hi, a...@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) skribis: > What is the difference between guix and nixos? Guix is a package manager similar to Nix, and it comes with the beginning of a small user-land software distro (like Nixpkgs). However, Guix and its distro are written in Guile Scheme, whereas Nixpkgs

Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

Hello! The Guix-based distro [0,1] now has a bootstrapped “standard environment” [2], similar to ‘stdenvLinux’ in Nixpkgs. The initial set of binaries is still taken from Nixpkgs, though (IOW, there’s no equivalent to ‘make-bootstrap-tools.nix’ yet.) The distro uses Glibc 2.16.0 and GCC 4.7.2.

Re: GNU Coding Standards: Errors

Richard Stallman skribis: > splittable_regs[REGNO (v->dest_reg)] = value; > fprintf (stderr, "Giv %d at insn %d not reduced\n", > REGNO (v->dest_reg), INSN_UID (v->insn)); > > According to the guide it should show at least the name of the file or >

Re: A replacement for Info

Hello! Thien-Thi Nguyen skribis: >If the XML backend didn’t already exist, I would suggest using a >custom sexp-based format instead, though. That would be easier than >SXML for elisp, which doesn’t have tools like sxml-match. > > What is ‘sxml-match’ and how would a renderer use it

Re: A replacement for Info

Hi! Thien-Thi Nguyen skribis: > It would be cool if Texinfo were able to produce SXML, a format directly > translatable to/from XML, directly. Honestly, with Guile 2, translating from XML to SXML boils down to calling ‘xml->sxml’, which is easy enough. If the XML backend didn’t already exist,

Re: A replacement for Info

Hi, k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) skribis: >What about just Texinfo, or Texinfo-as-sexps? [...] > Texinfo is not simple to parse. To me, the ideal solution to this would be to have the parser available as a library. There’s one in Guile, but it’s incomplete, and not actually used

[ANN] Guix, functional package management from Guile

Hello! I am delighted to announce Guix, a purely functional package management tool. https://gitorious.org/guix http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix-0.0.tar.gz SHA1: 30d99946c67e9a015bb9817b3731765aadc533be Guix is written in Guile Scheme. It builds on top of the low-level build and

Re: A GNU Distribution

Hello, Antono Vasiljev skribis: > Richard Stallman writes: > >> Ludovic aka l...@gnu.org starded a project implementing nix package >> definitions in scheme/guile: https://gitorious.org/guix >> >> That's cool. > > Yep, CCing Ludovic. > Ludo, please, joing discussion about GNU distributi