On Saturday, 7 May 2016 at 08:53:10 UTC, Thomas Mader wrote:
GNU Guix can be used as a reproducible reference build system
where we capture the bootstrapping process nicely and test the
builds on the build farm(s) whenever something changes.
I like the idea.
I thought about that too but would not use GNU Guix for it.
I would suggest to use Nix -> http://nixos.org/
AFAIK GNU Guix uses some parts of Nix and I think the community
behind it is not as big.
There are also packages for dmd on Nix already.
I also was able to get the ddmd frontent version of dmd running
on Nix.
Nix would be the perfect system to base all the testing on
because it's very easy to distribute entire system
configurations over multiple computers.
So once everything is setup correctly and the knowledge is
there, it makes administering entire server farms pretty
comfortable.
Hi Thomas! Good news, Nix and Guix can easily be used on one
system. I am a GNU Guix person (for several reason; also used Nix
for years), and I am glad to say that the community is growing
rather fast. Guix is a pretty young project.
I am committed to supporting the D language on Guix (if only to
deploy my own working environments), be great to have the same on
Nix.
