Do substitutes download slowly for you? / Speeding up substitute delivery/mirrors

2023-05-25 Thread Christopher Baines
Hey! I was reminded again about substitute download speeds outside of Europe again today. There was some feedback when I sent out a message to guix-devel [1], [2] a while back. I think the rough summary is that there's anecdotal evidence that a US mirror helps. 1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/h

Re: Do substitutes download slowly for you? / Speeding up substitute delivery/mirrors

2023-05-25 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Chris! On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 7:14 AM Christopher Baines wrote: > > France:wget > https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0 --2023-05-25 07:23:45-- https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0 R

Re: Do substitutes download slowly for you? / Speeding up substitute delivery/mirrors

2023-05-25 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2023-05-25, Christopher Baines wrote: > France:wget > https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0 > US:wget > https://bordeaux-us-east-mirror.cbaines.net/nar/lzip/078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0 > Singapore: wget > h

Re: Do substitutes download slowly for you? / Speeding up substitute delivery/mirrors

2023-05-25 Thread Luis Felipe
Hey, Chris: El 25/05/23 a las 13:52, Christopher Baines escribió: France:wget https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0 US:wget https://bordeaux-us-east-mirror.cbaines.net/nar/lzip/078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0 Si

Re: Understanding a Golang importer error

2023-05-25 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On jeu., 25 mai 2023 at 16:09, Simon Tournier wrote: >> We could also prompt the user of 'guix import' to select a tag. > > Well, I know nothing about Go. Neither about how Go packaging is > working. Currently, these tags does not seems appearing in the goproxy > (https://proxy.golang.org)

Re: Understanding a Golang importer error

2023-05-25 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On mer., 24 mai 2023 at 19:29, Felix Lechner via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." wrote: > I would find it more consistent, however, to pick a nearby version (or > the newest version) and emit that package definition, instead. Well, what does it mean “nearby“? Fr

How many bytes do we add (closure of guix) when adding one new package?

2023-05-25 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, The initial discussion was about the closure of Guix and that “guix pull” brings graphical libraries. See #63050 [1]. Here, I would like to open a discussion about how Guix scales, i.e. about its size. I am trying to answer the question I am asking as the subject. ;-) It’s another angle to

Re: Do substitutes download slowly for you? / Speeding up substitute delivery/mirrors

2023-05-25 Thread Philip McGrath
Hi, On Thu, May 25, 2023, at 9:52 AM, Christopher Baines wrote: > Hey! > > I was reminded again about substitute download speeds outside of Europe > again today. > > There was some feedback when I sent out a message to guix-devel [1], [2] > a while back. I think the rough summary is that there's a

Re: Do substitutes download slowly for you? / Speeding up substitute delivery/mirrors

2023-05-25 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Philip, On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 1:49 PM Philip McGrath wrote: > > Here are results from Florida, US: > > 2023-05-25 16:28:07 (14.9 MB/s) > 2023-05-25 16:28:53 (52.9 MB/s) > 2023-05-25 16:29:37 (10.5 MB/s) Wow, those are the best Guix speeds I have seen yet, perhaps aside from folks connected

How Can We Make G-Expressions Even More Interactive At The REPL?

2023-05-25 Thread jgart
Hi Guixers, How can we make g-expressions even more interactive at the REPL? For example, thing to explore is what can we print instead of '(*approximate*)? Just brainstorming/listing. Let me know if there is some previous thread I should be reading. ps WDYT if we had even more convenience me