Re: February update on data.guix.gnu.org and the Guix Data Service

2020-02-27 Thread Christopher Baines
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Christopher Baines writes: > >> I forget exactly when, but recently I've been trying to revive the patch >> review setup I was working on around a year ago [6]. I've setup an >> instance of the Guix Data Service for this [7] (separate to the >> data.guix.gnu.org one).

Re: 01/03: ui: Only display link in capable terminals.

2020-02-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >>> You mean the "~%" in "~a~%file: ~a"? >>> How would you like to display it? >> >> I would not display it at all. I think it’s a bit of clutter that’s >> best avoided. >> >> I guess I’m suggesting a revert of this patch. > > So users

[GSOC 2020] Improving the manual?

2020-02-27 Thread Leandro Doctors
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 11:44, zimoun wrote: > Are you using Guix yet? > > If no, the first easy step is to install the "package manager". [...] Thanks for the instructions, Simon! I have just successfully installed Guix :-) > If yes, the easy way to start is: > git clone https://git.savannah.gn

Re: [GSOC 2020] Improving the manual?

2020-02-27 Thread zimoun
On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 at 01:22, Leandro Doctors wrote: > > If yes, the easy way to start is: > > git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git > > > from the note in the manual > > http://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html#Binary-Installation > > While cloning the

[GSOC 2020] Idea: Guile based build-tool

2020-02-27 Thread Leandro Doctors
Hi, all, I am starting to do some research on this idea. Even though I haven't checked Guix's code yet (I plan to flickr it in the upcoming days), I am thinking on getting some inspiration from the architecture of similar Clojure-focused tools (which, as I stated earlier, is what I know). I know

Re: [GSOC 2020] Improving the manual?

2020-02-27 Thread sirgazil
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 19:22:17 -0500 Leandro Doctors wrote > On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 11:44, zimoun wrote: > > Are you using Guix yet? > > > > If no, the first easy step is to install the "package manager". > [...] > > Thanks for the instructions, Simon! > I have just successfull

Re: [GSOC 2020] Improving the manual?

2020-02-27 Thread Leandro Doctors
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 21:39, sirgazil wrote: > On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 21:37, zimoun wrote: >> The source of the manual lives under doc/ of what is cloned above; > The documentation is in the same repository of the guix source code (see the > doc directory). Thanks, guys. I see it now. I had

Re: Packaging UCSC

2020-02-27 Thread zimoun
Hi Pjotr, On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 19:22, Pjotr Prins wrote: > Anyone got UCSC running with Guix? May be easier than Galaxy which is > also on the books at some point. You are talking about that [1], right? But is it free software? I am not able to find the license and [2] is not very helpful...

Re: bug#33844: Rename ghc-pandoc to pandoc

2020-02-27 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 14:10:15 +0100, zimoun wrote: > Well, your comment is pointing: a) that the description is badly > written and b) the 'relevance' score is too rough. [...] > The real problem is not the non-obvious name (ghc-pandoc instead of > simply pandoc) but it is: a) some description

Re: 01/03: ui: Only display link in capable terminals.

2020-02-27 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Hi, it's fine by me, I'm not too hyped up about this feature. What do Guix users think? -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [GSOC 2020] Discussing GNU Guix project ideas?

2020-02-27 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Leandro, > My name is Leandro Doctors. I am seriously considering applying to > GSoC 2020 with GNU Guix. Oh, that’s nice! > I am interested in the Scheme-based ideas. (I have recently > rediscovered LISP, and I am a Clojure fan.) However, I haven't found > any indication on how to proceed i

Re: [GSOC 2020] Discussing GNU Guix project ideas?

2020-02-27 Thread Leandro Doctors
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 05:16, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Usually we just discuss things right here on the mailing list. That is a great starting pointer, Ricardo. Thanks! :-) > A draft for what exactly? Well, as I said before, I have only started reading the Ideas page. All I know right now is th

Re: bug#33844: Rename ghc-pandoc to pandoc

2020-02-27 Thread zimoun
Hi Mike, On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 02:23, Mike Gerwitz wrote: > Ah, for the record, I had searched for pandoc using `guix package -s > pandoc` in the past and didn't find what I was looking for, and so fell > back to a Debian system. It turns out what I wanted was ghc-pandoc > after all. Thank yo

Re: [GSOC 2020] Discussing GNU Guix project ideas?

2020-02-27 Thread Leandro Doctors
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 08:52, Leandro Doctors wrote: > I will clone Guix's repo, read the code and try building it, and get > back with more specific details, if that's OK with you. I checked the Guix group page [1], and found several repos... [1] https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=guix Could

Re: Towards reproducibly Jupyter notebooks with Guix-Jupyter

2020-02-27 Thread Pjotr Prins
Dear Konrad, I don't thing we have an R kernel yet for Jupyter. How hard would it be to add that? I have been using the Python version in class. It is great :). And you don't really need Jupyterhub for a class. Pj.

Re: Towards reproducibly Jupyter notebooks with Guix-Jupyter

2020-02-27 Thread zimoun
Hi Pjotr, On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 15:33, Pjotr Prins wrote: > I don't thing we have an R kernel yet for Jupyter. How hard would it > be to add that? I have been using the Python version in class. It is > great :). And you don't really need Jupyterhub for a class. Is ' r-irkernel' not what you wa

Re: [GSOC 2020] Discussing GNU Guix project ideas?

2020-02-27 Thread zimoun
Hi Leandro, On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 12:54, Leandro Doctors wrote: > I will clone Guix's repo, read the code and try building it, and get > back with more specific details, if that's OK with you. Are you using Guix yet? If no, the first easy step is to install the "package manager". It works on

Re: 02/02: gnu: next: Compress the executable.

2020-02-27 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Pierre, The problem where using Btrfs compression wasn't effective for /gnu/store (or anything else) was caused by the init RAM disk not honoring options on the root file system. I could notice about this when running just 'mount', and the options I gave in my config.scm were missing. Since t

Re: rav1e AV1 encoder

2020-02-27 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 09:09:05AM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote: > Short of resorting them I'd start with ones that have no dependencies, > just rely on rust-quote & friends or are older versions. Some packages, > like rust-futures-*, should be updated as a group since they all expect > to be the s

Re: rav1e AV1 encoder

2020-02-27 Thread Leo Famulari
I'm wondering if I can just push the crates as a single commit, after inserting them alphabetically and fixing any cosmetic issues, and also handling the semver-compatible package updates. I know that we don't usually do this when adding packages to an existing module. We do add packages en masse

Re: Towards reproducibly Jupyter notebooks with Guix-Jupyter

2020-02-27 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 03:36:37PM +0100, zimoun wrote: > Hi Pjotr, > > On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 15:33, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > > I don't thing we have an R kernel yet for Jupyter. How hard would it > > be to add that? I have been using the Python version in class. It is > > great :). And you don't

Re: Towards reproducibly Jupyter notebooks with Guix-Jupyter

2020-02-27 Thread zimoun
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 19:11, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 03:36:37PM +0100, zimoun wrote: > > Hi Pjotr, > > > > On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 15:33, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > > > > I don't thing we have an R kernel yet for Jupyter. How hard would it > > > be to add that? I have been usin

Packaging UCSC

2020-02-27 Thread Pjotr Prins
Anyone got UCSC running with Guix? May be easier than Galaxy which is also on the books at some point. Pj.

Re: Towards reproducibly Jupyter notebooks with Guix-Jupyter

2020-02-27 Thread Vincent Legoll
hello On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 7:20 PM zimoun wrote: > Because other kernels are named: python-ipykernel or ruby-iruby. > Another: python-pari-jupyter. > And another other: jupyter-guile-kernel. > Well, there is no real convention yet, if I understand correctly. > > A good move should to start a g

Re: Towards reproducibly Jupyter notebooks with Guix-Jupyter

2020-02-27 Thread zimoun
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 19:43, Vincent Legoll wrote: > > hello > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 7:20 PM zimoun wrote: > > Because other kernels are named: python-ipykernel or ruby-iruby. > > Another: python-pari-jupyter. > > And another other: jupyter-guile-kernel. > > Well, there is no real convention

Re: Towards reproducibly Jupyter notebooks with Guix-Jupyter

2020-02-27 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
zimoun writes: > On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 19:43, Vincent Legoll wrote: >> >> hello >> >> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 7:20 PM zimoun wrote: >> > Because other kernels are named: python-ipykernel or ruby-iruby. >> > Another: python-pari-jupyter. >> > And another other: jupyter-guile-kernel. >> > Well

Re: Towards reproducibly Jupyter notebooks with Guix-Jupyter

2020-02-27 Thread zimoun
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 20:39, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > zimoun writes: > > On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 19:43, Vincent Legoll > > wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 7:20 PM zimoun wrote: > >> > Because other kernels are named: python-ipykernel or ruby-iruby. > >> > Another: python-pari-jupyter. > >>