Re: Bootstrapped Zig now available in Guix master.

Hi Timothy, On Thu, 02 Jan 2025 09:09:10 +0800, Timothy Washington wrote: > > Hi there Hilton, > > This is a great achievement and I appreciate your work on this. I have my > eye on packaging Ghostty for geeks when I came across your work here. Are > you also eyeing packaging Ghostty as well? If n

Re: Bootstrapped Zig now available in Guix master.

On Wed, 01 Jan 2025 13:25:37 +0800, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 04:57:22PM +0100, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote: > > As told in IRC, I think we should write something about this, in the line of > > the Mono bootstrap post. Zig people would enjoy it, and also Guix people. > > > > It's a gr

Re: New committer

Ian Eure writes: > I’ve applied for, and received, my commit bit! Congratulations! -- Suhail

Re: New committer

Welcome Ian! Take a look at teams in etc/teams.scm ;-). -- Oleg signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Linux 6.12 new preemption models

On 1/1/25 17:51, Leo Famulari wrote: FYI, Linux / linux-libre 6.12 introduces a new set of preemption options: -- Preemption Model 1. No Forced Preemption (Server) (PREEMPT_NONE) 2. Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop) (PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY) 3. Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)

Re: New committer

Welcome aboard! On Fri, Jan 03, 2025 at 09:24:36AM -0800, Ian Eure wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hello Guixers, > > I’ve applied for, and received, my commit bit! The manual says to send a > signed email to say so, so that’s what I’m doing. > > By way of intro

Re: Linux 6.12 new preemption models

On Fri, Jan 03, 2025 at 01:15:42PM -0500, kiasoc5 wrote: > How about PREEMPT_DYNAMIC: > https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/PREEMPT_DYNAMIC.html > > This enables changing between PREEMPT_NONE, PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY, and PREEMPT > at boot time. Then the only kernel that needs to be compiled separate is

New committer

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello Guixers, I’ve applied for, and received, my commit bit! The manual says to send a signed email to say so, so that’s what I’m doing. By way of introductions: I’ve been using Linux since around 1995, when I installed Slackware off floppy dis

Re: Bootstrapped Zig now available in Guix master.

> The problem is that language developers live in > their own silo, create a self-hosted compiler with binary blob, and > leave it to the distros to figure it out. which is baffling to me, because i think bootstrapping is one of the more interesting parts of compiler development. i had the same

Request-For-Comment process: concrete implementation (v5)

Hi, Below the updated version (v5) of the RFC introducing the RFC process. The submission is: . Well, a very good lesson is: Co-supporter is very important! It helps in crossing the final line. :-) In other words, the Timeline had not been respected at all

Re: Alternative syntax for interacting with the store monad

Hi Maxim, On Fri, 03 Jan 2025 at 00:04, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > (I sometimes dabble with > the monad, and the reason I don't do it more often at the REPL is partly > because I need to retrain myself how to use it every time :-)). > Something more int

Re: handling package tests requiring root?

Hi Tomas, I was curious how Nix handles this, so I asked about it on the #nixos IRC. It looks like they run such tests in a VM. These are called NixOS tests, and they seem to be the equivalent of our system tests - they have to be run manually, separately from regular package tests. So unless som