qt-build-system: Add QT_QPA_PLATFORM=offscreen?

2020-01-22 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Hi Danny, (forwarding to guix-devel to eventually get more opinions on this) Am 21.01.20 um 23:43 schrieb Danny Milosavljevic: >> + (add-before 'check 'check-setup >> + (lambda _ >> + (setenv "QT_QPA_PLATFORM" "offscreen") >> + #t) > Hmm, would it mak

Re: [bug#39229] qt-build-system: Add QT_QPA_PLATFORM=offscreen?

2020-01-22 Thread Mike Rosset
Hartmut Goebel writes: > Hi Danny, > > (forwarding to guix-devel to eventually get more opinions on this) > > Am 21.01.20 um 23:43 schrieb Danny Milosavljevic: >>> + (add-before 'check 'check-setup >>> + (lambda _ >>> + (setenv "QT_QPA_PLATFORM" "offscreen") >>> +

Re: qt-build-system: Add QT_QPA_PLATFORM=offscreen?

2020-01-22 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 09:44:02AM +0100, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Hi Danny, > > (forwarding to guix-devel to eventually get more opinions on this) > > Am 21.01.20 um 23:43 schrieb Danny Milosavljevic: > >> + (add-before 'check 'check-setup > >> + (lambda _ > >> + (se

Re: Parameterized packages

2020-01-22 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
zimoun writes: > I do not understand what you do mean by "does not compose". > > > To me, a package is: > "./configure && make && make check && make install" > so I understand why tweak the flags used by "./configure", for example > change "--with-vlc=" from the default 0 to the tuned 1. Or use a

Re: Mumi service

2020-01-22 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi! > > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: > > [...] > >>> However, the currently packaged snapshot crashes when trying to retrieve >>> information about a bug: >>> >>> --8<---cut here---start->8--- >>> $ /gnu/sto

Re: Parameterized packages

2020-01-22 Thread zimoun
Hi Pierre, On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 10:54, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > zimoun writes: > > To me, a package is: > > "./configure && make && make check && make install" > > so I understand why tweak the flags used by "./configure", for example > > change "--with-vlc=" from the default 0 to the tuned

Re: G-Expressions and Scope Preservation

2020-01-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Chris Marusich skribis: > In your paper "Code Staging in GNU Guix" [1], you use the following > example to illustrate how G-Expressions are hygienic ("they preserve > lexical scope across stages"): > > (let ((gen-body (lambda (x) > #~(let ((x 40)) >

Re: Testing the installer

2020-01-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Mathieu Othacehe skribis: > That sounds like a nice idea! I guess we can discuss it more deeply > during Guix Days, but here are a few thoughts: > > * Testing from a VM won't cover HW issues with undetected wifi networks > and kmscon rendering issues, but could cover most partitioning iss

Outreachy project for netlink bindings

2020-01-22 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello Julien, Last round you were interested in mentoring this project. I have sent the previous proposal with slight modifications for this round. You can add yourself as a comentor to it now. Best regards, g_bor -- OpenPGP Key Fingerprint: 7988:3B9F:7D6A:4DBF:3719:0367:2506:A96C:CF63:0B21

Outreachy Internationalization for Guix Data Service

2020-01-22 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello Christopher, Could you resubmit the proposal for this round? I believe we left it off in a good state, so you could just copy it verbatim. Best regards, g_bor -- OpenPGP Key Fingerprint: 7988:3B9F:7D6A:4DBF:3719:0367:2506:A96C:CF63:0B21

GSoC status

2020-01-22 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello Guix, I have received the information from the GNU org admins that they submitted GNU for participation in GSoC 2020. They are waiting for feedback, I will keep you updated. In the meantime I created this page: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2020 based roughly on last year. P

Re: G-Expressions and Scope Preservation

2020-01-22 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi Ludo, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello! > > Chris Marusich skribis: > >> In your paper "Code Staging in GNU Guix" [1], you use the following >> example to illustrate how G-Expressions are hygienic ("they preserve >> lexical scope across stages"): >> >> (let ((gen-body (lambda (x) >>