Leo Famulari writes:
> Our goal is to build everything from source.
OK, that helps me to understand why you are doing things the way you are
doing it.
Indeed, this means that your efforts are incompatible with my original
hope: that guix would make packaging of Java applications significantly
eas
Hi Ricardo,
I have a few more questions about your proposed jar packaging.
Ricardo Wurmus writes:
> We are building library for library as individual packages in Guix. We
> certainly won’t bundle prebuilt jars from Maven if it can be avoided
> at all.
Does this mean that you have a GUIX package
Thanks Ricardo,
Ricardo Wurmus writes:
> I’m not sure I understand what you mean here. I have been packaging a
> couple of Java things and the reliance on prebuilt jars and Maven
> causes quite a few problems. This is the single most important reason
> why there isn’t much of Java to be found in G
Thanks Ludovic,
Ludovic Courtès writes:
>> * Integration with existing software distribution managers
>>
>> How are you planning on handling these more modern languages that
>> manage their own dependencies?
>
> Currently, we import those languages’ dependency trees into the Guix
> dependency tre
Dear GUIX-SD,
I am interested in this initiative because it is the GNU distribution
and also because there is the possibility to address some major
technical problems I have with current GNU / Linux distributions.
I have several questions, and I would appreciate it if you could attempt
to answer