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2023-09-19 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Simon and all readers, I have some comments I cannot keep, just to try helping making this thread harder to follow, if possible :-D. Simon Tournier writes: [...] > For instance, Vim [1] or VSCode [2]. The frame is not “what we should > do” but “let me show you what I have”, IMHO. Well, yo

Re: bug#65866: [PATCH 0/8] Add built-in builder for Git checkouts

2023-09-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Simon, Simon Tournier skribis: > On Mon, 18 Sept 2023 at 15:56, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> Anyhow, how about this plan: >> >> 1. Merge with the hard Git >> dependency. > > Is #65866 fixing bug#63331 (Guile-GnuTLS/Git circular dependency) [1]? Yes,

Re: Guix related things in Germany at the end of October/start of November

2023-09-19 Thread Tobias Platen
On Sat, 2023-09-09 at 08:23 +0200, Matt wrote: > >   On Tue, 05 Sep 2023 19:28:09 +0200  Christopher Baines  wrote - > -- > >  > Is anyone else planning to attend these events, or otherwise > interested >  > in meeting up in Germany around these dates? > > I recently moved to Hamburg.  Than

Re: [PATCH qa-frontpage] Apply incoming patches onto the correct feature branch

2023-09-19 Thread Christopher Baines
Vivien Kraus writes: > It seems that the only available information of the feature branch is > in the patch name. > --- > > Hello guix! > > Thank you for making the QA tool. It seems to me that feature branches > are ignored for patches. The patches seem to always be applied on top > of master.

ActtivityPub and Haunt

2023-09-19 Thread indieterminacy
In wider fediverse news, The ActivityPub webpage is getting a rejig: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/activitypub-rocks-portal-from-standards-movement-to-grassroots-fedi/3577 Im emailing, as within the technical discourse page is whether the tech stack should be moved away from (scheme bas

guix QA "fails to process revision"

2023-09-19 Thread Andy Tai
For a submitted patch, if Guix QA "fails to process revision" as in this log https://data.qa.guix.gnu.org/job/49399 [ 32/ 40] compiling... 60.0% of 20 filesmadvise failed: Cannot allocate memory builder for `/gnu/store/j3hy5gymlfrdrhm8aj2brnsa2pix16n2-guix-home.drv' failed due to signal 11 (Segmen

Re: ActtivityPub and Haunt

2023-09-19 Thread Thompson, David
Hi Jonathan, On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 11:48 AM indieterminacy wrote: > > In wider fediverse news, > > The ActivityPub webpage is getting a rejig: > https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/activitypub-rocks-portal-from-standards-movement-to-grassroots-fedi/3577 > > Im emailing, as within the technica

The elephant in the room and the Guix Bang.

2023-09-19 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello, ...I'm talking about Emacs. In <87bkdzssgm@gmail.com> [1] Simon Tournier writes: [1] https://yhetil.org/guix/87bkdzssgm@gmail.com/ [...] > people are already engaging for improving the accessibility of editors > other than Emacs Simon gave me the opportunity to realize (once

Re: [workflow] Automatically close bug report when a patch is committed

2023-09-19 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Vagrant, Vagrant Cascadian writes: [...] > This is why I think it is important for projects to have some sort of > namespacing for this sort of thing; I am not really opinionated on the > exact details, other than it not conflicting with Debian's terribly > generic entirely un-namespaced his

Re: guix QA "fails to process revision"

2023-09-19 Thread Christopher Baines
Andy Tai writes: > For a submitted patch, if Guix QA "fails to process revision" as in this log > https://data.qa.guix.gnu.org/job/49399 > > [ 32/ 40] compiling... 60.0% of 20 filesmadvise failed: Cannot allocate memory > builder for `/gnu/store/j3hy5gymlfrdrhm8aj2brnsa2pix16n2-guix-home.drv' >

Re: bug#65866: [PATCH 0/8] Add built-in builder for Git checkouts

2023-09-19 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi Ludo, On Tue, 19 Sep 2023 at 16:43, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>> 1. Merge with the hard Git >>> dependency. >> >> Is #65866 fixing bug#63331 (Guile-GnuTLS/Git circular dependency) [1]? > > Yes, as written in the cover letter. [...] >

Re: Guix pull speed

2023-09-19 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 at 11:58, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> What could be done about this? Another solution would be to somehow >> build Guix without any of the dependencies and then add them in later, >> similar to what is done with build-aux/build-self.scm to be able to load >> (guix self) in

[PATCH qa-frontpage WIP] Add a library to parse patchwork json data

2023-09-19 Thread Vivien Kraus
--- Hi! Here is a small library that exports 3 types: − is the collection of metadata that is present in the square brackets in the patch names; − is an individual item of the patch series; − is a whole series of patches; And a set of functions to parse and serialize these. A fun expe

WebAssembly target for Guix (Showcase)

2023-09-19 Thread zamfofex
Hello, Guix! I have recently worked on a WebAssembly target (for cross‐compilation) for Guix. It’s still in very early stages and thus fairly lacking, but it is enough to cross‐compile certain simple packages such as ‘lolcat’. Maybe people might find it useful and/or interesting in some way. I

Re: WebAssembly target for Guix (Showcase)

2023-09-19 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
On Tue, Sep 19 2023, zamfofex wrote: > I’d love to know what y’all might think about it! That's super exciting! I do not plan to run GNU Guix inside a WASM runtime (or in a browser) but I would like to experiment with WASM versions of some of our packages. My interest was sparked by the extraord