On Thursday, 15 February 2018 at 16:47:35 UTC, Pjotr Prins wrote:
On Thursday, 15 February 2018 at 15:52:41 UTC, John Gabriele
wrote:
It's a bit confusing since the first thing [the Guix
webpage](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/) talks about
"GuixSD", rather than the Guix tool in its own right.
Yes. We discussed that at the hackathon before FOSDEM. It is
rather difficult to position a project that has so many use
cases...
Wow, I didn't realize how established Guix is. It's [packages
page](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/) boasts 6868
available packages!
~2000 added in the last year. I am updating the ldc package to
1.7.0 this week.
Are any other languages using Guix for their 3rd-party online
package repo? If not, why?
GNU Guile ;).
That's excellent. I remember years ago it looked like there was
action in getting a Guile package repo going but it never panned
out. Glad they found (and settled on) something! (Though
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/libraries/> doesn't say
anything about Guix, and I don't see anything about Guix in the
[Guile
manual](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/)).
The current state is that everyone is rolling out some type of
language support. The good news is that Guix allows for
abstracting existing build systems. If you look at a typical
python package you can see it leans on pip:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/python.scm#n1004
The package is written in Guile scheme, but you can see it does
not take a genius
to package something. In fact Guix can generate the actual
package definition automatically.
We have not written something similar for dub. But I can do
that if there is interest.
I'd love to see an overview article explaining how the pieces
would fit together. Would Guix work with Dub? If so, what
specifically (on GNU/Linux) would be required to make that
happen, and what would using such a solution look like in
practice?
Not at all. Seems like an amazing tool!
Agree. Give it a shot.
I don't yet know enough about D and Dub to even know what giving
Guix a shot would mean :). I'm on Debian and so use apt for
installing software. I'll have to spend some time with the Guix
(and Dub) docs.
It does not hurt your system because the installer only uses
/gnu (for the software) and /var/guix (for the database). To
uninstall simply remove those dirs.
Guix never overwrites system directories.
Nice. Easy removal is most appreciated.
