Re: No default OpenJDK version?

2024-04-20 Thread Julien Lepiller
I think the first step would be to target openjdk 9, since it already introduces quite a lot of changes compared to java 8. To do it, I would suggest to change the default jdk in the ant-build-system and maven-build-system, and see what is broken, if it can simply be updated without breaking

Re: Welcome to Zheng (z572) as a new committer!

2024-04-20 Thread Zhu Zihao
Congratulations! Maxim Cournoyer writes: > Hi comrades, > > Zheng has joined the committers to help improving cross-compilation, > riscv64, and KDE, among others. > > Let's wish them a warm welcome! > > Happy hacking! -- Retrieve my PGP public key: gpg --recv-keys

A capture-stdout wrapper procedure in (guix build utils)?

2024-04-20 Thread Fabio Natali
Hallo, I noticed this capture-stdout wrapper procedure while reviewing Tomas' patch 68289⁰: , | (define (capture-stdout . prog+args) | (let* ((port (apply open-pipe* OPEN_READ prog+args)) | (data (get-string-all port))) | (if (= 0 (status:exit-val (close-pipe port))) |

Re: Status of ‘core-updates’

2024-04-20 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Christopher, Christopher Baines writes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> What’s the status of ‘core-updates’? What are the areas where help is >> needed? >> >> I know a lot has happened since the last update¹, which is roughly when >> I dropped the ball due to other commitments, but I’m not

Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive

2024-04-20 Thread Ian Eure
Hello, I’m following up on this since discussion since it’s been a month and I haven’t heard any updates. Summarizing the situation: - SHF has an opaque, difficult, and undocumented process for handling name changes. I’s like to stress again that this is *not* strictly a transgender

Fallout from recent nss-certs changes

2024-04-20 Thread Ian Eure
Some recent nss-certs changes have a negative side effects which needs to be fixed. A patch of mine was pushed recently (commit 0920693381d9f6b7923e69fe00be5de8621ddb6f), which adds nss-certs 3.98 to (gnu packages certs), under the nss-certs-3.98 variable. Then, commit

Re: rust-team branch merged

2024-04-20 Thread Jason Conroy
Efraim Flashner writes: Currently if you were to pull in rust-rand-0.8 and rust-rand-0.7 then you'd have both rand-0.*.crate files in the registry but only one of them would be listed in share/cargo/registry/index/ra/nd/rand. I need to adjust the generation of that file to combine multiple

Guix bios installation: Grub error: unknown filesystem

2024-04-20 Thread Franz Geffke
I'm having trouble installing guix in qemu, using a "fresh" guix ISO. ``` building /gnu/store/byjlc85abyjc3fjj9z982677skmda7ib-module-import-compiled.drv... building /gnu/store/psw8xn9qpsjjnrqmjrfv0v3jj9fphq5m-module-import-compiled.drv... building

Re: No default OpenJDK version?

2024-04-20 Thread Markku Korkeala
On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 10:37:30PM +0200, Julien Lepiller wrote: > Currently, most java packages use the implicit jdk from the build system > (ant- or maven-build-system), which is… icedtea@8. We still have quite a lot > of old packages that don't build with openjdk9, so I'm not sure when we can

Welcome to Zheng (z572) as a new committer!

2024-04-20 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi comrades, Zheng has joined the committers to help improving cross-compilation, riscv64, and KDE, among others. Let's wish them a warm welcome! Happy hacking! -- Thanks, Maxim

Re: Status of ‘core-updates’

2024-04-20 Thread Christopher Baines
Ludovic Courtès writes: > What’s the status of ‘core-updates’? What are the areas where help is > needed? > > I know a lot has happened since the last update¹, which is roughly when > I dropped the ball due to other commitments, but I’m not sure where we > are now. I haven't really been

Re: Should we include nss-certs out of the box?

2024-04-20 Thread Fabio Natali
On 2024-04-19, 11:25 -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Could you please take a look at > '65e8472a4b6fc6f66871ba0dad518b7d4c63595e', which I hope didn't leave > no longer useful 'nss-certs' doc/examples behind ? Hi Maxim, absolutely, I should be able to give a look today or tomorrow. I'll send an

Re: Fix grammar and markup (was Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual)

2024-04-20 Thread Matt
On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 22:56:13 +0200 pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote --- > Hello Matt, pushed as 86fb0e039bf30cf85e2066401f9a384427c47ea8. > > I was bold enough to retain the xref change in (Setting Up the Daemon) > prompted by Ludo, because starting a sentence with @xref is

Re: Creating a documentation team?

2024-04-20 Thread Matt
On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:09:53 +0200 Ludovic Courtès wrote --- > Hi Florian and all, > > I figure you’ve been doing a lot of review and writing of the manual. > Should we create a documentation team, of which you could be a honorary > member? :-) > > I feel like ensuring doc