Re: Web site moved to https://guix.gnu.org

Julien Lepiller writes: > Le 18 juillet 2019 14:39:45 GMT+02:00, zimoun a > écrit : >>Dear, >> >>Thank you for the work of this move! :-) >> >> >>On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 at 23:43, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> >>> As discussed in , that >>should >>> allow us to

Re: Apply Guix patches from debbugs

Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Question for Emacs users: how do you apply patches directly from the debbugs > interface? > > From the summary view, I can press M-m (debbugs-gnu-apply-patch). > It asks me for a directory, I point to guix, and then I get the error > > cd: No such directory found via CD

Re: Rust dependency on git

Ivan Petkov writes: > Hi Marius > >> On May 24, 2019, at 3:45 AM, Marius Bakke wrote: >> >> It seems odd to me that the release tarballs would run 'git ls-files' >> anyway. Do they actually contain a git repository? Would it work to >> simply replace the invokation with 'find’? > > Managed to

Re: Rust 1.19 fails to build on i686 on ‘staging’

Danny Milosavljevic writes: > can we give thepowersgang (author of mrustc) an ssh account on a guix machine > reachable from the internet, for debugging this problem? > > It would be good if "guix build -K" kept the sources on that machine. Is/are the thepowersgang still willing to help us out?

How to programmatically get the current channel commits?

Hi, It's possible to get the current Guix version via %guix-version, exported by (guix config). This is useful, among other reasons, for embedding in package definitions that produce artifacts that are destined to leave the store (e.g., a statically linked program you want to ship off somewhere e

Re: Parameterized packages

Mark H Weaver writes: >> Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>> While thinking about and >>> looking >>> for ways to allow users to install just the locales they need right >>> from >>> ‘guix package’, I realized that “parameterized packages” are a >>> low-hanging fruit

Re: Website translation

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 06:59:32PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) writes: > > > I think msgctxts could help with fragmentation, as I would > > prefer format strings with msgctxt over HTML-that-is-not-SHTML with > > itstool (I may misunderstand itstool though). > > I

Re: Website translation

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 10:28:31PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 06:59:32PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > I don’t understand. itstool operates on plain old XML fragments. > > > > At first I thought of plain HTML strings, but it surely was a > misunderstand

Re: A P2P alternative to email based development flow

On 2019-07-18 15:32, swedebugia wrote: Hi I have recently started using SSB[1] and it seems to me like a really promising protocol. Here is an idea for replacing a email-based workflow with a ssb-based one: https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/patches-carved-into-developer-sigchains

Re: Website translation

On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 10:08:36 -0500 pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 11:16:21PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > I think we now have an overview of the possibilities (including maybe > > ‘itstool’ that Ricardo mentions.) I’d say that whoever is intereste

Re: Website translation

pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) writes: > I think msgctxts could help with fragmentation, as I would > prefer format strings with msgctxt over HTML-that-is-not-SHTML with > itstool (I may misunderstand itstool though). I don’t understand. itstool operates on plain old XML fragments. What’s the de

Re: Web site moved to https://guix.gnu.org

Hi, Hum? Now guix.gnu.org/manual/devel points to f309441 which is the evaluation of #6426 (version-1.0.1). Is it expected? All the best, simon

Re: Web site moved to https://guix.gnu.org

Hi, On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 at 14:44, Julien Lepiller wrote: > Le 18 juillet 2019 14:39:45 GMT+02:00, zimoun a > écrit : > >Because not everyone reads the documentation with `info`, it appears > >to me nice to also serve the latest version of the manual (at least > >periodically build from source

Re: Website translation

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 11:16:21PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I think we now have an overview of the possibilities (including maybe > ‘itstool’ that Ricardo mentions.) I’d say that whoever is interested > should give it a try with what looks like the most promising approach > and report back

Re: `guix search` feature or bug?

Hi, On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 at 23:31, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > zimoun skribis: > > From the function `relevance` in `guix/ui.scm`, if I understand well, > > it seems expected. Each field deals with the regexp and the terms > > `software` and `tools` does not appear both in only one field. > > > >

A P2P alternative to email based development flow

Hi I have recently started using SSB[1] and it seems to me like a really promising protocol. Here is an idea for replacing a email-based workflow with a ssb-based one: https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/patches-carved-into-developer-sigchains There is already a vibrant active gossip P2P

Re: Web site moved to https://guix.gnu.org

Le 18 juillet 2019 14:39:45 GMT+02:00, zimoun a écrit : >Dear, > >Thank you for the work of this move! :-) > > >On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 at 23:43, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> As discussed in , that >should >> allow us to dynamically serve or to periodically up

Re: Web site moved to https://guix.gnu.org

Dear, Thank you for the work of this move! :-) On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 at 23:43, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > As discussed in , that should > allow us to dynamically serve or to periodically update the package > list. Help welcome! > > For now, an advantage of

Re: Improving ‘guix search’ scoring

Hi, On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 at 23:27, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I guess computing the TF-IDF could perhaps improve the results compared > to the current scoring mechanism. It would be worth trying to implement > it. > > The bottom line though, as you wrote, is that this all depends on the > quality

Re: bug#36685: ant-bootstrap fails on core-updates (409 dependents)

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 12:51:23PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > This only adds a comment. If the comment is too short it won’t work. > > I suspected some misguided optimizations, so I built jamvm-1-bootstrap > and classpath-bootstrap with -O0, -O1, and I disabled stripping of > binaries, but

Re: bug#36685: ant-bootstrap fails on core-updates (409 dependents)

Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> I have confirmed that this is the problem by replacing “while >> (VMFile.exists(file.path))” with “while (false)”. The build doesn’t >> fully complete then either, but it gets past the compilation of the Ant >> source files. This clears Ja

Re: Character display problem in mumi and my mail client

Arun Isaac writes: >> I’m currently in the process of moving away from the SOAP service for >> fetching message contents, because it’s just too painful. There are too >> many truncated or otherwise mangled messages, and in the end we are just >> assembling them back to a good old email to pars

Re: Character display problem in mumi and my mail client

> I’m currently in the process of moving away from the SOAP service for > fetching message contents, because it’s just too painful. There are too > many truncated or otherwise mangled messages, and in the end we are just > assembling them back to a good old email to parse them with Arun’s > guile

Re: Character display problem in mumi and my mail client

Hi, Thanks for the bug report! > It appears that mumi (or at least the instance of it running on > issues.guix.gnu.org) has problems displaying some non-ASCII characters. I > noticed it with '’'. Compare > > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36207 > > with > > https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugre

Re: qt4 packages

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice transcribed 672 bytes: > Efraim, Guix, > > Efraim Flashner 写道： > > tipp10 Debian continues to build with qt-4 > > In cases like this one (where the software has been unmaintained for years), > is the plan simply to remove them altogether? > > (Fine by me,) > > T G-R As Ha

Re: new alias: `guix show`?

zimoun transcribed 113 bytes: > Dear, > > What do you think about adding `guix show` as an alias for `guix > package --show=`? I would consider how many subcommands there are already, and if this is really necessary beyond mere convenience. Does it serve just one function (just the alias), or c

Re: Suggest another way of importing GNU Guix GPG key

Le 18 juillet 2019 10:03:18 GMT+02:00, Ricardo Wurmus a écrit : > >dftxb...@free.fr writes: > >> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html >> still recommends to download using keyservers. > >This is the manual corresponding to the latest release, which did not >include th

Re: Down with PYTHONPATH!

Hi Hartmut, > Für welche Fälle wird PYTHONPATH eigentlich gesetzt - sprich für welche > Fälle brauchen wir eine Lösung? > > 1. guix environment --ad-hoc python: NEIN, da das environment > "komplett" ist We set PYTHONPATH here, because the search path is attached to the “python” package. I

Re: Character display problem in mumi and my mail client

Hi Jack, thanks for the report. > It appears that mumi (or at least the instance of it running on > issues.guix.gnu.org) has problems displaying some non-ASCII > characters. I noticed it with '’'. Compare > > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36207 > > with > > https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugre

Re: Suggest another way of importing GNU Guix GPG key

dftxb...@free.fr writes: > https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html > still recommends to download using keyservers. This is the manual corresponding to the latest release, which did not include the change. I think it would be warranted to change this even though the o