Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

2024-03-02 Thread Daniel Littlewood
Hi! I'm a complete newbie to Guix, which has the dual effects that I'm much more excited about it than I otherwise might be, but the disadvantage that I know nothing and am more likely to cause problems than not at the moment. Nevertheless I thought I might be able to contribute something to the di

Re: You're invited to the first patch review session!

2024-03-02 Thread Daniel Littlewood
HI, just to clear up the timezone issue a bit - I think the ical file higher up is *not* correct: * I think the meeting is at 18:00 UTC, which is the same as 18:00 GMT, which is the same (on March 7th) as 18:00 London time * I think the libreplanet page says 18:00 BST, which is 17:00 UTC/GMT and i

Re: rewriting history; Was: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive

2024-03-18 Thread Daniel Littlewood
Hi everyone, I think the discussion so far splits into "should something be done" and "what can be done". The "should something be done" is easier to address, I think, so I'll deal with it first. I particularly have Attila's reply in mind. > let's put aside the trans aspect of this question for a

Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive

2024-03-18 Thread Daniel Littlewood
Hi Kaelyn, The legal question is unsettled, and there is ongoing litigation by (at least) Matthew Butterick in the US, since at least 2022. The reasonable positions I'm aware of are: 1. An LLM (or, more precisely, the set of weights that define it) is not a derivative work of its training data, f

Re: Including code in a non-Guile language into Guix

2024-10-31 Thread Daniel Littlewood
Hi Evan, Some guix commands are indeed quite slow. This has been the subject of discussion on the mailing list previously. I found one example from a year ago, but I guess there are others: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-06/msg00085.html That being said, I would recommend cau

Shepherd testimonial/questions

2025-04-08 Thread Daniel Littlewood
Hi guix-devel. I recently started using the shepherd to automate services on my guix system laptop. I wanted to send a message, mostly to express what a pleasant experience it was! I wrote it up on my blog, with some context.[1] I did have a couple of difficulties. I got past these, so this i

Dependencies on version ranges?

2025-07-10 Thread Daniel Littlewood
Hi guix-devel, I have been working recently on packaging Ruby gems. There is a particular feature I have been unable to replicate, namely that gems declare their dependencies with both a symbolic name and a version range. For example, sinatra 4.1.1 depends on logger >= 1.6.0. Gems also declare wh