Re: Prototype tool for building derivations

2020-04-26 Thread Christopher Baines
zimoun writes: > Hi Chris, > > On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 at 22:22, Christopher Baines wrote: > >> Just let me know if you have any questions or comments! > > From what I understand of both your prototype and build systems, you > should interesting to read this paper [1]: "Build systems à la carte: >

Re: Prototype tool for building derivations

2020-04-26 Thread Christopher Baines
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello! > > Christopher Baines skribis: > >> In terms of getting to a point where Guix packages build reliably and >> reproducibly, I think more testing is what's going to help. By taking >> packages and building them more, on a wide variety of hardware and >> software

Re: Prototype tool for building derivations

2020-04-24 Thread zimoun
Hi Chris, On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 at 22:22, Christopher Baines wrote: > Just let me know if you have any questions or comments! >From what I understand of both your prototype and build systems, you should interesting to read this paper [1]: "Build systems à la carte: Theory and practice". It needs

Re: Prototype tool for building derivations

2020-04-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Christopher Baines skribis: > In terms of getting to a point where Guix packages build reliably and > reproducibly, I think more testing is what's going to help. By taking > packages and building them more, on a wide variety of hardware and > software configurations, we'll get data on wha

Prototype tool for building derivations

2020-04-17 Thread Christopher Baines
Hey, Over the last couple of weeks, I've made some time to implement something I was thinking about for a while. In terms of getting to a point where Guix packages build reliably and reproducibly, I think more testing is what's going to help. By taking packages and building them more, on a wide v