Re: Communication and Design at Guix

2019-01-15 Thread zimoun
Dear, If I may, I would say that no manual can satisfy every reader; in terms of rendering (menu, color, etc.) and in terms of content (deep details or not, etc.). About the rendering, some of us like to browse with Emacs and info-mode, other prefer Web-style. There is no general pattern. :-) Ab

Re: Docker and singularity containers

2019-01-15 Thread zimoun
Dear Ricardo, > I don’t know. We could have one with R + all CRAN and bioconductor > packages that we currently offer. Ok, it seems a good start. > > - how? > > That’s easier: with “guix pack”. We would create a Cuirass job to build > a pack regularly. We’d need to add support for hooks to

Re: Communication and Design at Guix

2019-01-15 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
swedebugia writes: > I looked into the chicken docs and their html and css. They generate > their examples from source-code with this MIT chicken egg-script: > http://code.call-cc.org/svn/chicken-eggs/release/4/colorize/trunk/colorize.scm. > > To use their approach with parens highlighting we

Bad GPG sig on guix .16.0x86_64

2019-01-15 Thread Sebastian
Hello, Developer. I was intreged by the OS and decided to try it. I noticed that the GPG sig was bad and thought I should let you know. (or perhaps I did something wrong, let me know.) Terminal: seb@seb-pc ~/Downloads> gpg --verify guixsd-install-0.16.0.x86_64-li gpg: no signed data gpg: can't has

Re: Bad GPG sig on guix .16.0x86_64

2019-01-15 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 09:49:14PM -0800, Sebastian wrote: > Hello, Developer. > I was intreged by the OS and decided to try it. > I noticed that the GPG sig was bad and thought I should let you know. > (or perhaps I did something wrong, let me know.) Thanks for reaching out! > seb@seb-pc ~/Downl

FW: Guix: A most advanced operating system

2019-01-15 Thread Cook, Malcolm
FWIW: Discussion of this article https://ambrevar.xyz/guix-advance/index.html occurring on hacker news now at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18902823

Re: Communication and Design at Guix

2019-01-15 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le 2019-01-15 14:56, Ricardo Wurmus a écrit : swedebugia writes: I looked into the chicken docs and their html and css. They generate their examples from source-code with this MIT chicken egg-script: http://code.call-cc.org/svn/chicken-eggs/release/4/colorize/trunk/colorize.scm. To use their

Re: Communication and Design at Guix

2019-01-15 Thread nly
>As a newcomer, what lacks in the Guix documentation are concrete examples and use cases. continuing with the emacs example, a guixwiki.org would be awesome as an analog for emacswiki.org. User maintained, quick and short examples with lots of supporting links. On January 15, 2019 10:36:20 AM U

Re: Communication and Design at Guix

2019-01-15 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
nly writes: > continuing with the emacs example, a guixwiki.org would be awesome as > an analog for emacswiki.org. User maintained, quick and short examples > with lots of supporting links. Hmm, I have the opposite opinion. I find the emacswiki to be a great example for what’s wrong with wiki

Re: Keyboard layout configuration

2019-01-15 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello nee! nee skribis: > Am 13.01.19 um 22:36 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >>> 1) grub >>> 2) linux's initrd >>> 3) console >>> 4) X/wayland's layout >>> 5) How to do the above >> > > Hello, I was working on this recently and made a patch for X11 that > fixes the layout in the slim login and when

Re: Communication and Design at Guix

2019-01-15 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, L p R n d n skribis: [...] >> I think it’s hard to generalize. What I do like about some GNU manuals >> is that they’re well written and well structured; they can serve both as >> a reference and as a way to get started. Examples of these include the >> libc and the Emacs manuals. T

Re: Communication and Design at Guix

2019-01-15 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Julien Lepiller skribis: > You're supposed to call paren-matcher on a sxml tag. It tries to find > the matching parenthesis for each opening one and wraps the content > inside a span. That's it. You need (ice-9 receive) and (ice-9 match). I think you should pass it on to David Thompson to consid

Re: Communication and Design at Guix

2019-01-15 Thread Ludovic Courtès
L p R n d n skribis: >> The idea is more to have a single “brand”: Guix. Then “Guix System” >> would be a component of Guix, so to speak, similar to GNOME and its >> applications. > > Ok, I understand. Just thought about something really quick. Do you > think describing "Guix Sytem" as a sy

Re: Article: Playing with Guix REPL from scratch

2019-01-15 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Chris Marusich skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Hi Chris, >> >> Chris Marusich skribis: >> >>> FYI, there is an email list specifically for blog post review: >>> guix-b...@gnu.org. I'm not sure if it's still active, since I can't >>> find an entry for it on lists.gnu.org. In the future

Re: Getting to 1.0!

2019-01-15 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ricardo Wurmus skribis: >> FOSDEM is only a couple of weeks away, and as we know, FOSDEM is the >> proclaimed deadline for 1.0. We’ve come a long way but there are still >> quite a few things to address before we can reasonably release 1.0: >> >> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintena

Re: Getting to 1.0!

2019-01-15 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
https://ctan.org/ can help looking up packages and it seems that it also finds files but I could be wrong. As far as I know, MikTeX (on Windows...) can automatically download a missing package when a compilation fails. I don't know if TeXlive can do this and if not, it might be a lot of work to ge

Re: Packaging FreeCAD

2019-01-15 Thread John Soo
Hi Paul, Thank you for saving me the headache! I’ll keep this posted with progress. - John > On Jan 14, 2019, at 4:42 AM, Paul Garlick > wrote: > > Hi John, > >> I did not know Debian changed their version of opencascade > > There are two versions of OpenCASCADE in Debian, named 'liboce'