Re: 23/36: gnu: Add libkdepim.

2020-02-05 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 04.02.20 um 23:29 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > This must get us close to full coverage of the core of KDE, no? Well, nor t yet. I have yet another approx. 100 packages hanging around. >> +(synopsis "Libraries for common kdepim apps") >> +(description "Libraries for common kdepim apps.")

Outreachy timeline and status report

2020-02-05 Thread Gábor Boskovits
The timeline is available here: https://www.outreachy.org/apply/project-selection/ Every date refers to 4 p.m. UTC that day. We kindly request proposals to be available by the 11th of February, so that it will be possible to promote them on the Outreachy Twitter chat. Please remind prospective a

Re: Another update on the Guix Data Service

2020-02-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! I’m late to the party and learned about most of these things in the meantime at the Guix Days, and this is all very cool! Christopher Baines skribis: > There's now a page to compare two derivations [4], it's not a > particularly clear comparison yet, but can hopefully be improved in the > f

Re: Store channel specification in profile

2020-02-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Ideas that are not that good on second thought: > > - Create a profile specification file from CLI options, > like --export PROFILE or --convert MANIFEST. > > The problem is that those are extra steps that the user would have to run > manually. We can sa

Re: Thoughts on stateful services in Guix

2020-02-05 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Alex, I'm very interested in deploying "as stateless as possible" services with Guix, thank you for sharing your thougts on this! I'm still non able to contribute code fot this task... I'm working on it Alex Sassmannshausen writes: > As a result of FOSDEM conversations today I felt inspired

Re: Thoughts on stateful services in Guix

2020-02-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Alex, Thanks for sharing your thoughts and this tricky but important use case! Alex Sassmannshausen skribis: > 3 A generalisation: the Stateful-Service Service > > > State dumping and restoration *should* be generalisable. > > It should no

Re: nesting with-imported-modules

2020-02-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > it seems that it is impossible to nest with-imported-modules. A gexp > that is wrapped in multiple layers of with-imported-modules won’t depend > on the list of all mentioned modules but only on the outermost. > > This is because with-imported-modules sets the c

Re: use-modules in gexps

2020-02-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > I just watched the excellent FOSDEM talk about G-expressions by Chris > Marusich. One person asked at the end about why it is necessary to use > “with-imported-modules” when inside of the G-expression “use-modules” is > used. Chris and I discussed it (I think t

Re: [PATCH] utils: Handle errors in worker threads.

2020-02-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Christopher Baines skribis: > Previously, if an error occurred, the worker fiber simply never sends a > reply. In the case of HTTP requests to Cuirass, where an exception occurs when > performing a database query, the fiber handling the request blocks as it never > gets a response. I think t

Re: Guix search, colors and INSIDE_EMACS

2020-02-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > In my experience, colors worked perfectly before the INSIDE_EMACS switch > was introduced. I don't understand what this change tried to fix. > Maybe one fix broke something else. ‘INSIDE_EMACS’ has always been honored by (guix colors). Also, it’s honored simila

Re: Guix size reduction work group

2020-02-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Shall we start a work group to fix the issue? > > - Write a blog article to explain the issue and a detailed process on > how to fix it. (Embed it to the manual.) The “Submitting Patches” section mentions closure size specifically. Is there anything you think

Re: use-modules in gexps

2020-02-05 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: >> I wondered if perhaps we could add a G-expression compiler for module >> imports, so that instead of >> >> (with-imported-modules (source-module-closure '((my module))) >> #~(begin >> (use-modules (my module)) >> …)) >> >> we would do >> >> #~(begin >>

Guix Days + FOSDEM → thumbs up everyone!

2020-02-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! The 4 days in Brussels (Guix Days + FOSDEM) have been intense as always, and I’m only catching up with email now (as you might have noticed ;-)). I’d like to thank Pjotr and Manolis for organizing the Guix Days and the Minimalist Language track again this year, as well as Andreas for

Re: Guix size reduction work group

2020-02-05 Thread zimoun
Hi Ludo, On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 at 16:18, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > - Improve the tooling. In my experience, guix graph is quickly unusable > > with a high number of nodes. Maybe d3.js could be leveraged to add a > > filtering system, or a way to click on nodes to hide them and all > > thei

Re: WIP gnu: poetry: Update to 1.0.3.

2020-02-05 Thread Tanguy Le Carrour
Hi Gui, hi Gábor! Le 02/04, Tanguy Le Carrour a écrit : > Le 02/03, Gábor Boskovits a écrit : > > Tanguy Le Carrour ezt írta (időpont: 2020. > > febr. 3., H, 16:31): > > > I'm working on updating Poetry to version 1.0.3 and I have a problem > > > with the version of a dependency. > > > > […] > >

Re: Another update on the Guix Data Service

2020-02-05 Thread Christopher Baines
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Christopher Baines skribis: > >> There's now a page to compare two derivations [4], it's not a >> particularly clear comparison yet, but can hopefully be improved in the >> future. This is linked to from the derivation history pages [5]. >> >> 4: >> http://data.guix.g

Re: [PATCH] utils: Handle errors in worker threads.

2020-02-05 Thread Christopher Baines
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi, > > Christopher Baines skribis: > >> Previously, if an error occurred, the worker fiber simply never sends a >> reply. In the case of HTTP requests to Cuirass, where an exception occurs >> when >> performing a database query, the fiber handling the request blocks

Wisdom regarding packaging proxysql

2020-02-05 Thread Ellen Papsch
Hello Guix, I'm currently packaging proxysql, of course with the goal of getting it into Guix upstream as well. There are two hurdles, which I thought I should discuss here. The first is the rather unflexible Makefile based build system. It would require some patching on Guix side. For example, t

Re: Install script supporting sysV init?

2020-02-05 Thread Joshua Branson
I've got an old ThinkPad T400. The motherboard supports 8GB of RAM. I think I bought it off of ebay for $50-80. Does your old thinkpad's motherboard support more RAM? -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Install script supporting sysV init?

2020-02-05 Thread Jan
On Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:44:28 -0500 Joshua Branson wrote: > I've got an old ThinkPad T400. The motherboard supports 8GB of RAM. > I think I bought it off of ebay for $50-80. Does your old thinkpad's > motherboard support more RAM? You mean a new Thinkpad T400, mine is T60 and supports max 3GB RA

Re: Wisdom regarding packaging proxysql

2020-02-05 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 04:59:01PM +0100, Ellen Papsch wrote: > The first is the rather unflexible Makefile based build system. It > would require some patching on Guix side. For example, the install > phase installs into a hard coded prefix (/usr). I played with the > thought of adding a meson bui

Re: 02/02: gnu: libical: Add upstream patch to preserve API compatibility.

2020-02-05 Thread Marius Bakke
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Howdy! > > guix-comm...@gnu.org skribis: > >> + (list (origin >> + (method url-fetch) >> + (uri (string-append >> + "https://github.com/libical/libical/commit/"; >> +