On 01/09/2016 04:30 PM, Thompson, David wrote:
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> I don't think Guix is a good fit here, because there's simply no way
> around the fact that Guix packages *must* contain the full dependency
> graph for build-time and runtime dependencies. There's no way that
> you could use, say, the Guile or GC
On 01/09/2016 03:35 PM, Amirouche Boubekki wrote:
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> Can you explain what a Guile specific fork of guix will bring over guix?
See the last part of this post.
>> User should be able to upload packages but each package should be
>> carefully reviewed (possibly by the community itself).
>
> This i
On 01/09/2016 02:05 PM, Amirouche Boubekki wrote:
> Héllo,
Hi!
> There is a package manager https://github.com/ijp/guildhall with a
> package
> repository with automatic package publishing without review.
There are many package managers actually, and most of them were
abandoned by their maintai
Package managers have been immensely successful in increasing the
popularity of programming languages - think about Perl's CPAN or Ruby's
Gem. But Guile doesn't a package manager, and that in my opinion slows
down its adoption.
The Guix repos distribute a lot of useful Guile libraries (like
guile-
On 01/03/2016 04:04 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
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> Maintaining tags means agreeing on a set of tags and adjusting it as we
> see fit, adding tags to existing packages, reviewing them for new
> packages, etc.
I can see why this might sound like a lot of work, but what if all
distros worked together
On 01/03/2016 03:20 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
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> We must also keep in mind the cost of maintaining them and the
> associated infrastructure.
>
> Ludo’.
Sorry but what does maintaining tags mean? I'm not talking about a user
tag system like Libre.fm, I'm talking about a simple tag list in packag
Sorry to bump an old thread but I agree with the OP that tags in
packages would be very helpful, and I can think of at least one use case
in which they might be necessary: games.
While game genre can be put into the description, games right now are
not all in the same .scm files (for example, gnom
