Re: Guix as a Guile package manager

2016-01-09 Thread Fabio Pesari
On 01/09/2016 04:30 PM, Thompson, David wrote: > > I don't think Guix is a good fit here, because there's simply no way > around the fact that Guix packages *must* contain the full dependency > graph for build-time and runtime dependencies. There's no way that > you could use, say, the Guile or GC

Re: Guix as a Guile package manager

2016-01-09 Thread Fabio Pesari
On 01/09/2016 03:35 PM, Amirouche Boubekki wrote: > > Can you explain what a Guile specific fork of guix will bring over guix? See the last part of this post. >> User should be able to upload packages but each package should be >> carefully reviewed (possibly by the community itself). > > This i

Guix as a Guile package manager

2016-01-09 Thread Fabio Pesari
Package managers have been immensely successful in increasing the popularity of programming languages - think about Perl's CPAN or Ruby's Gem. But Guile doesn't a package manager, and that in my opinion slows down its adoption. The Guix repos distribute a lot of useful Guile libraries (like guile-

Re: Guix as a Guile package manager

2016-01-09 Thread Fabio Pesari
On 01/09/2016 02:05 PM, Amirouche Boubekki wrote: > Héllo, Hi! > There is a package manager https://github.com/ijp/guildhall with a > package > repository with automatic package publishing without review. There are many package managers actually, and most of them were abandoned by their maintai