Re: Unofficial Neovim channel
> I wonder why you felt the need to have that channel? Two points: the package in Guix is lagging behind in release, and I don't know enough yet about Guix to submit patches on a whim. So I made a channel to first try thing out for myself before submitting them to Guix. If I mess something up in my channel that's my problem, but if I mess up something in Guix then it reflects badly on all of Guix. I could have just left the channel local to my hard drive (as I had in the past), but making it public allows more people to have a look at it. I guess most (all?) Guix package maintainers use Emacs instead of Vim or Neovim, but I use Neovim as my daily driver, so I'm more likely to catch if something is wrong. For example, I noticed that the Guix Neovim package is using Lua 5.2 libraries has its inputs, whereas you need Lua 5.1 libraries (Lua is not backwards-compatible). I had also submitted Lua 5.1 packages of lua-lpeg and lua-libmpack to Guix in the past. > What's the difference between your definition and guix' definition? Currently not much, only being three releases ahead and having the correct dependencies. (Lua 5.2 generally works as well, but you never know when an obscure edge-case might bite you in the rear)
Re: Unofficial Neovim channel
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 12:14:53PM +0100, Julien Lepiller wrote: > I wonder why you felt the need to have that channel? We already have > a neovim package in guix. I'm very curious because I use that > package and didn't feel that anything was missing, apart maybe from > the possibility to install plugins from guix, which would be great. > What's the difference between your definition and guix' definition? Channels are a good way to experiment. I guess experimentation is the purpose :). Pj.
Re: Unofficial Neovim channel
Le 2019-01-21 12:22, HiPhish a écrit : Hello Guix developers, I have set up an unofficial Guix channel for Neovim (and possibly for related projects in the future): https://gitlab.com/HiPhish/neovim-guix-channel/ The plan is to use this channel first, and then submit patches to Guix when everything is deemed correct and reliable. I also wrote a blog post[1] on the topic, although it's primarily addressed at people familiar with Neovim and unfamiliar with Guix. I would very much appreciate if someone could go over the code in my channel and see if everything is in order. HiPhish Hi, I wonder why you felt the need to have that channel? We already have a neovim package in guix. I'm very curious because I use that package and didn't feel that anything was missing, apart maybe from the possibility to install plugins from guix, which would be great. What's the difference between your definition and guix' definition? - [1] http://hiphish.github.io/blog/2019/01/21/neovim-guix-channel/
Re: Unofficial Neovim channel
Hello, HiPhish skribis: > I have set up an unofficial Guix channel for Neovim (and possibly for related > projects in the future): > > https://gitlab.com/HiPhish/neovim-guix-channel/ > > The plan is to use this channel first, and then submit patches to Guix when > everything is deemed correct and reliable. I also wrote a blog post[1] on the > topic, although it's primarily addressed at people familiar with Neovim and > unfamiliar with Guix. I would very much appreciate if someone could go over > the code in my channel and see if everything is in order. Nice, thanks for sharing! And yes, do feel free to contribute the package(s) to Guix itself when you deem appropriate! :-) Ludo’.
Unofficial Neovim channel
Hello Guix developers, I have set up an unofficial Guix channel for Neovim (and possibly for related projects in the future): https://gitlab.com/HiPhish/neovim-guix-channel/ The plan is to use this channel first, and then submit patches to Guix when everything is deemed correct and reliable. I also wrote a blog post[1] on the topic, although it's primarily addressed at people familiar with Neovim and unfamiliar with Guix. I would very much appreciate if someone could go over the code in my channel and see if everything is in order. HiPhish - [1] http://hiphish.github.io/blog/2019/01/21/neovim-guix-channel/