Re: A friendlier API for operating-system declarations

2024-02-26 Thread Liliana Marie Prikler
Am Sonntag, dem 25.02.2024 um 13:27 -0800 schrieb antlers: > Thanks for the detailed response c: > > The blocker is that AFAIK we can't tell if a record-field was defined > as thunk-ed or delay-ed outside of the expansion of the > `define-record-type*' form that defines it, nor programatically > a

Re: Core-updates coordination and plans

2024-02-26 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Andreas, On Wed, Jan 31 2024, Andreas Enge wrote: > We should be able to do a world-rebuild not once or twice a year, but > at least every month How about a 48-hour period every month in which commits are permitted even if they cause "world rebuilds"? We could pause the substitute builders d

Guix System automated installation

2024-02-26 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello Ian, I'm a little late to this discussion, sorry. I'm adding guix-devel since it would be nice if some Guix developer have something to add on this matter, for this reason I'm leaving all previous messages intact Csepp writes: > Ian Eure writes: > >> Hello, >> >> On Debian, you can crea

Re: February update on the Guile guix-daemon

2024-02-26 Thread Christopher Baines
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Christopher Baines skribis: > >> - Then there's the big areas to work on next: >> >>- I think I'm going to need to use thread pools for SQLite operations >> in the daemon, as the build coordinator does. > > I think we should refrain from using POSIX threads d

Re: Building container images with nix2container

2024-02-26 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Antoine Eiche writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> We have "guix pack" as part of Guix. It builds Docker or squashfs >> images as well as various other formats. What does nix2container offer >> beyond what we have? > > I acutally don't know how you currently build Docker images. But if > ni

Re: Building container images with nix2container

2024-02-26 Thread Antoine Eiche
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > We have "guix pack" as part of Guix. It builds Docker or squashfs > images as well as various other formats. What does nix2container offer > beyond what we have? I acutally don't know how you currently build Docker images. But if nix2container brings something, i think