Re: some questions about GUIX

2015-12-31 Thread Sam Halliday
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

Re: some questions about GUIX

2015-12-30 Thread Sam Halliday
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

Re: some questions about GUIX

2015-12-29 Thread Sam Halliday
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

Re: some questions about GUIX

2015-12-29 Thread Sam Halliday
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

some questions about GUIX

2015-12-28 Thread Sam Halliday
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