Re: GNU Guix 0.8.3 released

2015-10-18 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
[removed gnu-system-discuss from Cc and added guix-devel] Marko Rauhamaa writes: > Thien-Thi Nguyen : > >> () Marko Rauhamaa >> () Thu, 23 Jul 2015 16:27:44 +0300 >> >>I have definite use cases in mind where I might be interested >>in migrating to Guix. I hope to be able to investigate

Re: GNU Guix 0.8.3 released

2015-07-24 Thread Pjotr Prins
+1 Guix for bioinformatics On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 08:34:52AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > (Reduced the Cc) > > > Now to the cons (the prior was the pros): I donnu about Guile Scheme, > > heard from former Cygnus ppl (including Ian Taylor IIRC) it was a > > mistake. > > A language change is no

Re: [Nix-dev] GNU Guix 0.8.3 released

2015-07-23 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 07/23/2015 12:31 AM, Markus Gothe wrote: > Is this why it doesn’t make any buzz or is it because you don’t try hard > enough to contact the papers??? > Would be nice if someone signed up to advocate Guix for distress etc… Every guix release gets a phoronix article, it seems :-) (contrary to e.

Re: GNU Guix 0.8.3 released

2015-07-23 Thread Daniel Pimentel
Congratulation for hard work! I'm install GuixSD 0.8.3 in other laptop with success, no error reported in momment. I did upgrade my old version, my current laptop, and it's ok. I installed Enlightenment desktop in GuixSD with success (I wrote a post about it[1]). Any bug or question I'll r

Re: GNU Guix 0.8.3 released

2015-07-22 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
(Reduced the Cc) > Now to the cons (the prior was the pros): I donnu about Guile Scheme, > heard from former Cygnus ppl (including Ian Taylor IIRC) it was a > mistake. A language change is not going to happen. I should say that one of the main reasons why I took interest in Guix was Guile. As a

GNU Guix 0.8.3 released

2015-07-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix version 0.8.3, representing 828 commits by 25 people over 2 months. • About GNU Guix is a functional package manager for the GNU system. The Guix System Distribution is (GuixSD) an advanced distribution of the GNU system. In addition to