Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought

2016-03-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
"Cook, Malcolm" skribis: > By the way, below my sig is my new and improved "wrap" to my "pitch". I hope > you like it... It’s quite strong, but I like it. Thanks! :-) Ludo’.

RE: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought

2016-02-29 Thread Cook, Malcolm
guix-devel- > bounces+mec=stowers@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Cook, Malcolm > Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 10:55 AM > To: 'Ricardo Wurmus' > Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org; 'bio-packag...@mailman.open-bio.org' packag...@mailman.open-bio.org> > Subject: RE: Makin

RE: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought

2016-02-29 Thread Cook, Malcolm
> Cook, Malcolm writes: > > > Hi Ricardo, > > > > Great specifics. If you can help me solve a few of my remaining > > questions, in-line below, I'd be much obliged > > Hi Malcolm, > > I see that others have already replied to some of your questions. Are > there any other things

Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought

2016-02-28 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Cook, Malcolm writes: > Hi Ricardo, > > Great specifics. If you can help me solve a few of my remaining > questions, in-line below, I'd be much obliged Hi Malcolm, I see that others have already replied to some of your questions. Are there any other things that you’d like us to clarify?

Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought

2016-02-28 Thread Ludovic Courtès
"Cook, Malcolm" skribis: > What is not clear to me is whether bash is assumed elsewhere in guix for > instance, the fact that > > guix package --search-paths > > reports environment variables in bash syntax. In practice it’s almost plain Bourne shell syntax. I think the only “Bashis

RE: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought

2016-02-19 Thread Cook, Malcolm
Pjotr! > > Yes. Agreed. However, my emphasis here was intended to be that > > Guix can be used to obviate the need for rbenv, virtualenv, and > > friends.I thought that `guix environment` was going to be an > > effective replacement for them. Am I mistaken in this? > > I have dropped

Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought

2016-02-19 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:29:49PM +, Cook, Malcolm wrote: > Yes. Agreed. However, my emphasis here was intended to be that > Guix can be used to obviate the need for rbenv, virtualenv, and > friends.I thought that `guix environment` was going to be an > effective replacement for them.

RE: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought

2016-02-18 Thread Cook, Malcolm
Hi Ricardo, Great specifics. If you can help me solve a few of my remaining questions, in-line below, I'd be much obliged > Cook, Malcolm writes: > > > I have been asked to write up an argument for the advantages that GNU > > Guix confers for deploying linux software, especially scient

RE: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought

2016-02-18 Thread Cook, Malcolm
gt; bounces+mec=stowers@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Cook, Malcolm > Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 10:02 AM > To: 'Ludovic Courtès' ; 'Ricardo Wurmus' > ; 'Pjotr Prins' ; 'Leo > Famulari' > Cc: 'Guix-devel' ; 'bio-packag

RE: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought

2016-02-10 Thread Cook, Malcolm
Hi, Thanks everyone for the many valuable suggestions and education. Next week I intend to incorporate the suggested improvements as best I can and follow up with an edit that I will use in-house, and share back out via git-hub. Though the document is aimed at my particular internal "project ju

Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought

2016-02-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
"Cook, Malcolm" skribis: > I have been asked to write up an argument for the advantages that GNU Guix > confers for deploying linux software, especially scientific computing and > including bioinformatics software. > > To that end I have written up this document > > https://github

Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought

2016-02-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > I’d also like to point you at https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01161771/en, in > case you haven’t read it yet. It includes a very general comparison > with tools like environment modules, spack, and easyBuild with a focus > on reproducibility. One of the things that has change

Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought

2016-02-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Leo Famulari skribis: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 04:03:13PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> >> Cook, Malcolm writes: >> > + Guix development is open source. It is open to input from all >> > community members. >> >> It’s free software ;) >> >> Maybe it’s also good to mention that you do not

Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought

2016-02-09 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 04:03:13PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Cook, Malcolm writes: > > + Guix development is open source. It is open to input from all > > community members. > > It’s free software ;) > > Maybe it’s also good to mention that you do not need to rely on Guix > upstream t

Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought

2016-02-09 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Cook, Malcolm writes: > I have been asked to write up an argument for the advantages that GNU > Guix confers for deploying linux software, especially scientific > computing and including bioinformatics software. > > To that end I have written up this document > > https://github.com

Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought

2016-02-08 Thread Cook, Malcolm
Hi, I have been asked to write up an argument for the advantages that GNU Guix confers for deploying linux software, especially scientific computing and including bioinformatics software. To that end I have written up this document https://github.com/malcook/sce/blob/master/Ma