Re: Improve ASDF build system for Common Lisp libraries

2020-09-14 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
This may very well be the reason why the ECL / SBCL packages are defined separately in the previous build system... Any idea, anyone? -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Speeding up archive export

2020-09-14 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Ludo! Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello Guix! > > If you’ve ever used offloading (or ‘guix copy’), you’ve probably noticed > that the time to send store items is proportional to the number of store > items to send rather than their total size. Namely: > > guix archive --export coreutils > >

Re: IceCat-78.2 preview on 'wip-icecat-78' branch; need icedove-78.

2020-09-14 Thread Jonathan Brielmaier
On 08.09.20 19:09, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote: >> Jonathan: you seem to be the defacto maintainer of our IceDove package. >> Would you like to work on updating it to 78 on the 'wip-icecat-78' >> branch? We have about 2 weeks before IceCat 78 must be pushed to >> 'master'. >> > Hi Mark, > > Nice wor

Re: Dependency cycle issues when using a Gexp-based snippet

2020-09-14 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello Ludovic, [...] >> What is the difference between delayed and thunked? Would a thunked >> capture the closure of its environment while delayed not? Is the >> closure useful to access record-bound values such as the version field >> of a package? > > ‘Thunk’ uses an actual thunk (zero-argume

Re: getting started with the texlive importer

2020-09-14 Thread Paul Garlick
Hi Ricardo, Hi John, > Looks good to me. Please push! Cheers! Pushed as 735808b12cc23909b421e10e212a07e7aa69a5eb Best regards, Paul.

Re: Improve ASDF build system for Common Lisp libraries

2020-09-14 Thread Guillaume Le Vaillant
I was thinking about what the package definitions would look like if we put pre-compiled files in package outputs instead of in their own packages. For example with a cl-xyz package having cl-abc as native input and cl-def as input: - cl-xyz package needs to propagate cl-abc and cl-def (sources)