Re: Advantages over Nix?

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 02:14:18PM +0100, zimoun wrote: > Let's pick an example: the sources.json file ingested by Software > Heritage. Basically, Guix does that when building its website and the > relevant Scheme code is here: > > >

Re: Removing/replacing “Guix in action” video from the home page?

So I've spent an hour today making a new video. It's about 10 minutes long. I'll cut out some bits of it via video editors. Just an update. Thanks, Joshua -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels "You ca

Re: ‘xdg-mime-database’ profile hook is slow

I am just posting my performance numbers. Hopefully you all find it helpful. I am running Guix System on a Lenovo Thinkpad T400 with 8GB on a hard drive. #+BEGIN_SRC sh :results output :exports both guix describe #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: #+begin_example Generation 49 Oct 20 2020 01:15:33(cu

Re: usage of pypi-uri in the pypi importer

Dear, On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 18:04, Malte Frank Gerdes wrote: >> (package >> (name "python-pyinstrument-cext") >> (version "0.2.2") >> (source >> (origin >> (method url-fetch) >> (uri (pypi-uri "pyinstrument-cext" version)) >> (sha256 >> (base32 >>

New Russian PO file for 'guix-manual' (version 1.2.0-pre2)

Hello, gentle maintainer. This is a message from the Translation Project robot. A revised PO file for textual domain 'guix-manual' has been submitted by the Russian team of translators. The file is available at: https://translationproject.org/latest/guix-manual/ru.po (We can arrange things

Re: [TALK PROPOSAL] Bootstrapping the Java Ecosystem

Am 27.10.20 um 18:30 schrieb Julien Lepiller: > I'd like to talk about the Maven bootstrap and the Maven Build System. +1 -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |

Re: [PATCH v2] .dir-locals.el: Automatically set the GEISER-GUILE-LOAD-PATH variable.

Hi Maxim! Maxim Cournoyer writes: > Thanks for your comments, they've already made this proposed change much > better! You did that, they only may have pointed somewhere, but the effort is yours, so thank you again. >> That cleanup seems to me responsibility of that .emacs maintainer >> instead

[PATCH v3] .dir-locals.el: Automatically set the GEISER-GUILE-LOAD-PATH variable.

* .dir-locals.el: Set the GUIX-DIRECTORY and GEISER-GUILE-LOAD-PATH Emacs variables based on the location of the .dir-locals file. --- .dir-locals.el | 21 - 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/.dir-locals.el b/.dir-locals.el index 19f15b3e1a..0496e41c

[TALK PROPOSAL] Bootstrapping the Java Ecosystem

Hi Guix! So, I guess we need to start collecting talk proposals for the online Guix Day in November. Here's mine :) I'd like to talk about the Maven bootstrap and the Maven Build System. Ensuring that software is built entirely from source is an essential practice to ensure user Freedom, as well

Re: usage of pypi-uri in the pypi importer

TL;DR: Now that my initial problem is solved anyway. No change is needed at all. zimoun writes: > Dear, > > On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 21:17, Malte Frank Gerdes > wrote: > >> i noticed that the python pypi importer generates packages definitions >> which rely on the pypi-uri function declared in t

Re: [PATCH v2] .dir-locals.el: Automatically set the GEISER-GUILE-LOAD-PATH variable.

Hello Miguel! Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas writes: > Hello, Maxim! > > Thanks for your effort in this, some comments with the quotes for > context. Thanks for your comments, they've already made this proposed change much better! > Maxim Cournoyer writes: >>> This fails if geiser-guile-load-path

Re: Advantages over Nix?

Hey, On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 11:36, Pjotr Prins wrote: > Quite a few of us here have used and developed against Nix in the past > and Nix certainly is a great work and the original inspiration of GNU > Guix (and doing things better). When Ludo introduced Guix at FOSDEM in > 2014, however, I was c

Re: Advantages over Nix?

Quite a few of us here have used and developed against Nix in the past and Nix certainly is a great work and the original inspiration of GNU Guix (and doing things better). When Ludo introduced Guix at FOSDEM in 2014, however, I was convinced to change my ways on the spot - after using Nix (from th

Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?)

Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi! > > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> This patch fixes it: > > [...] > >> + (("translate-file=cp227") >> + (format #f >> "translate-file=~a/share/texmf-dist/web2c/cp227" >> + (assoc-ref inputs "texl