Re: fftwf tests running for 25+ hours - is this normal?

2019-10-15 Thread Bengt Richter
Hi Chris and Matteo, On +2019-10-15 22:11:50 -0700, Bengt Richter wrote: > On +2019-10-15 11:32:38 -0700, Chris Marusich wrote: > > Hi Bengt and Matteo, > > > > Bengt Richter writes: > > > > > Have you checked sensors for overheating that might induce CPU clock > > > throttling? > > > > Actua

Re: fftwf tests running for 25+ hours - is this normal?

2019-10-15 Thread Bengt Richter
On +2019-10-15 11:32:38 -0700, Chris Marusich wrote: > Hi Bengt and Matteo, > > Bengt Richter writes: > > > Have you checked sensors for overheating that might induce CPU clock > > throttling? > > Actually, yes, I happened to be watching dmesg output at the time, and I > did notice these messa

Re: 'staging' is FROZEN

2019-10-15 Thread Bengt Richter
On +2019-10-15 19:03:41 +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: > Hello Guixers, > > The 'staging' branch is now considered "frozen" and only takes > bug-fixes for new regressions. You can follow progress here: > > https://ci.guix.gnu.org/jobset/staging-staging > No I can't, unfortunately -- not without set

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-10-15 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Gavin, you may not even need to write all of this from scratch. GNOME has Yelp which uses WebKitGTK and which already supports info documents. Perhaps this could be enhanced instead? -- Ricardo

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-10-15 Thread Gavin Smith
On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 02:09:59PM -0700, Per Bothner wrote: > On 10/15/19 2:00 PM, Gavin Smith wrote: > > > JavaScript should not be necessary if there is DOM access from the C/C++ > > side, as the case with WebKitGTK (although it is not as easy as it could > > be). Frames should not be necessar

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-10-15 Thread Per Bothner
On 10/15/19 2:00 PM, Gavin Smith wrote: JavaScript should not be necessary if there is DOM access from the C/C++ side, as the case with WebKitGTK (although it is not as easy as it could be). Frames should not be necessary either: for a table of contents side bar, I imagine this would be done as

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-10-15 Thread Gavin Smith
On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 01:40:17PM -0700, Per Bothner wrote: > On 10/15/19 1:20 PM, P wrote: > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > > On Tuesday, October 15, 2019 7:27 PM, Gavin Smith > > wrote: > > > WebKitGTK seemed to be the best option for a lightweight embedded > > > web-browser. I looked in

Re: (Really) Free Software future

2019-10-15 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> If systemD is be hard to replace, that is a kind of lock-in. But it > isn't _vendor_ lock-in. systemD, like most free software packages, > is not tied to any particular vendor. Indeed, the usual concept of > "vendor" for free software is not applicable to free software at all.

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-10-15 Thread Per Bothner
On 10/15/19 1:20 PM, P wrote: ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, October 15, 2019 7:27 PM, Gavin Smith wrote: WebKitGTK seemed to be the best option for a lightweight embedded web-browser. I looked into other options, such as the Gecko engine used inside Thunderbird, but apparently i

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-10-15 Thread Gavin Smith
On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 08:20:14PM +, P wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Tuesday, October 15, 2019 7:27 PM, Gavin Smith > wrote: > > WebKitGTK seemed to be the best option for a lightweight embedded > > web-browser. I looked into other options, such as the Gecko engine > > used

Re: (Really) Free Software future

2019-10-15 Thread marinus.savoritias
I agree completely about Systemd. Corporate interests are too controling over it. I don't know how we could remove elogind and eudev and the likes. GNOME doesn't seem to eager to even consider the forks, let alone an alternative implementation that Systemd. Free Software should be community dev

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-10-15 Thread P
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, October 15, 2019 7:27 PM, Gavin Smith wrote: > WebKitGTK seemed to be the best option for a lightweight embedded > web-browser. I looked into other options, such as the Gecko engine > used inside Thunderbird, but apparently it is not supported any more

Re: (Really) Free Software future

2019-10-15 Thread Svante Signell
On Mon, 2019-10-14 at 22:41 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > > If systemD is be hard to replace, that is a kind of lock-in. But it > isn't _vendor_ lock-in. systemD, like most free software packages, > is not tied to any particular vendor. Indeed, the usual concept of > "vendor" for free softwa

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-10-15 Thread Gavin Smith
Link to thread archive: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2019-04/msg1.html On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 5:18 PM Gavin Smith wrote: > I've moved forward enough with Qt and QtWebEngine that I'm confident > that it could be used for all the required features: path search for > manuals a

Re: fftwf tests running for 25+ hours - is this normal?

2019-10-15 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi Bengt and Matteo, Bengt Richter writes: > Have you checked sensors for overheating that might induce CPU clock > throttling? Actually, yes, I happened to be watching dmesg output at the time, and I did notice these messages (no similar messages have been printed since then, which was many h

Re: Performance improvements

2019-10-15 Thread Efraim Flashner
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Re: Could guix lint check the copyright line?

2019-10-15 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
ng0 writes: > That's a really low threshold given that sometimes > people changed 2 or 3 lines in a file or 1 and still > get to add their copyright line. That's fine, we can also assign a copyright for 1 line. > If we don't have it, no one will complain I guess. And then we have to > distingui

Re: Could guix lint check the copyright line?

2019-10-15 Thread ng0
Pierre Neidhardt transcribed 907 bytes: > Wouldn't it be neat if guix lint would automatically spot missing > copyright lines in the file headers? It could rely on `git blame' to > identify who wrote more than some 15 lines in a file. That's a really low threshold given that sometimes people chan

'staging' is FROZEN

2019-10-15 Thread Marius Bakke
Hello Guixers, The 'staging' branch is now considered "frozen" and only takes bug-fixes for new regressions. You can follow progress here: https://ci.guix.gnu.org/jobset/staging-staging Two months have passed since the previous 'staging' merge due to the recent 'core-updates' effort. Thus, thi

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-15 Thread Marius Bakke
Kei Kebreau writes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Hello Kei, >> >> Kei Kebreau skribis: >> >>> I have the GNOME 3.32 branch! I'm building it on top of the new >>> core-updates as you read this message. If everything still builds, I'll >>> immediately send my changes to the guix-patches mailing

Could guix lint check the copyright line?

2019-10-15 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Wouldn't it be neat if guix lint would automatically spot missing copyright lines in the file headers? It could rely on `git blame' to identify who wrote more than some 15 lines in a file. What do you think? -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: fftwf tests running for 25+ hours - is this normal?

2019-10-15 Thread Matteo Frigo
Chris, thanks for reporting this issue. (By the way, did the test ever finish?) Most likely, the problem is in FFTW and not in your machine. Would you mind reporting the exact configure options (I care specifically about --enable-sse2, --enable-avx, etc.) and the exact command line that is taki

Re: (Really) Free Software future

2019-10-15 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
This is off-topic on guix-devel. Please remove guix-devel@gnu.org from your replies. -- Ricardo

Re: Performance improvements

2019-10-15 Thread Dimakakos Dimos
That is really great! Thanks for your hard work!

Re: Performance improvements

2019-10-15 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ludovic Courtès writes: > I just wanted to share that recent commits have improved the performance > of ‘package-derivation’ and related operations quite a bit: > > 8f417ed280 gnu: commencement: Further optimize the package object graph. > f618134e4c build-system/gnu: 'package-with-explicit-in