On Thu, 26 May 2022, Arun Isaac <arunis...@systemreboot.net> wrote: > Hi Olivier, > >> Quick question about guix-forge. Why laminar instead of cuirass as >> the CI? > > Two reasons: > > - Cuirass requires a PostgreSQL database, but I wanted guix-forge to be > as stateless as possible and definitely not require a complex database > server like PostgreSQL. Laminar just uses sqlite.
Right. This is something that's also bothering me. I wonder how hard it would be to select the database used by cuirass at runtime. > - Laminar is very minimal and easy to deploy. Long back when I tried > cuirass, I couldn't really figure out how to run it for general > purpose CI. Maybe, the manual has improved since then, but I haven't > checked. I did found the manual to be lacking. I'm using it just to re-compile my local package though so it's enough. Tell me, does Laminar check for channels update like cuirass? The main feature I like about cuirass is that if any dependencies of a package is updated, it will rebuild my package. If it does support that, I will seriously consider switching to guix-forge for my project. -- Olivier Dion oldiob.dev
