Re: Building a software toolchain that works

2022-03-17 Thread David Arroyo
On Thu, Mar 17, 2022, at 11:35, Maxime Devos wrote: > Why skip downstream patches and snippets? The spirit of the workflow is to enable someone to easily contribute a patch to an upstream project. With that in mind, I assumed that our downstream patches would not be accepted by the upstream projec

Re: Building a software toolchain that works

2022-03-14 Thread David Arroyo
A snapshot of the guix repository is similar to a snapshot of Google's "google3" monorepo. It differs, in that rather than containing the full source of a specific version of every software package, it encodes instructions on how to obtain and build a specific version of each package. This has some