Hi Ryan,
On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 at 03:57, Ryan Prior wrote:
> I learned today that Guix will chug happily along applying a transform to a
> nonexistent package.
>
> For example, I can run:
> guix environment --with-latest=not-exist --ad-hoc which
>
> This shows no warning or errors. I think it woul
Thank you so much for the wealth of resources, and for reading the materials!
I see how you got the workflow aspect, although I hesitate to sum up Xiden as a
workflow engine. When I wrote Polyglot (a static site generator), it also
included an abstraction for arbitrary workflows. In my mind, Xid
> Did you discover guix after writing Xiden?
I did, although when I did discover Guix, I incorporated what I learned from
Guix with the limitations in Racket's approach to package management.
> Why start yet another package manager from scratch?
Do I need a reason? I like programming, I do it t
Hello Sage,
Why start yet another package manager from scratch? Are there any features that
couldn't just be implemented in Guix itself? I prefer development in Racket
over guile too, but Guile with it's low level system call/c compatibility plays
to its strengths for the use cases involved in
Hi Sage,
On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 at 20:33, Sage Gerard wrote:
> This is an offshoot Q&A based off Devos' questions in the "How did you
> handle making a GNU/Linux distribution?" thread. It pertains to how
> Guix compares to Xiden on some points.
>
> Given the length of both of our emails, I don't e
