Re: GSoC status

2014-04-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Besides: I owe you a big thanks for trying to address the problem, and for handling GSoC in general! Ludo’.

Re: GSoC status

2014-04-23 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
> FWIW, I received that message (dated Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:28:54 +0200), > as I was on the CC list. In fact, I received two copies of it. > I see that it was also sent to Thomas Schwinge, Samuel Thibault, Richard > Braun, Andreas Enge, and Nikita Karetnikov. It would be interesting to > know whi

Re: GSoC status

2014-04-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
jose.march...@oracle.com (Jose E. Marchesi) skribis: > >> The lesson is that I should have been more cautious. Probably that > >> process would be best handled by a group of people. > > > > We must keep in mind that email is no longer reliable, given the > > widespread use of

G expressions

2014-04-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! 1. The Problem === There’s a recurrent problem that we need to communicate the file name of store items to Scheme code that is going to live in another process: expressions to build a derivation, Scheme files that are to be loaded by other processes, etc. This had been partly

Re: GSoC status

2014-04-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mark H Weaver, le Wed 23 Apr 2014 12:16:11 -0400, a écrit : > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > > As you may know, we got one slot for Guix as part of the GNU > > organization for GSoC. I emailed José and Giuseppe (who take care of > > that on the GNU side) before going away from keyboard,

Re: GSoC status

2014-04-23 Thread Jose E. Marchesi
>> The lesson is that I should have been more cautious. Probably that >> process would be best handled by a group of people. > > We must keep in mind that email is no longer reliable, given the > widespread use of aggressive and heuristic spam filtering today. Yeah.

Re: GSoC status

2014-04-23 Thread Andreas Enge
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:16:11PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > FWIW, I received that message (dated Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:28:54 +0200), > as I was on the CC list. In fact, I received two copies of it. I also received it. This looks like a case of very bad luck, where adding more formal procedure

Re: GSoC status

2014-04-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> As you may know, we got one slot for Guix as part of the GNU >> organization for GSoC. I emailed José and Giuseppe (who take care of >> that on the GNU side) before going away from keyboard, telling we’d like >> to have Manolis

Re: GSoC status

2014-04-23 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > As you may know, we got one slot for Guix as part of the GNU > organization for GSoC. I emailed José and Giuseppe (who take care of > that on the GNU side) before going away from keyboard, telling we’d like > to have Manolis on the Hurd porting project. >

Re: GnuTLS: Upgrade to 3.3.1 (fails)

2014-04-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nikita Karetnikov skribis: > make[4]: Entering directory > '/tmp/nix-build-gnutls-3.3.1.drv-0/gnutls-3.3.1/tests/cert-tests' > PASS: pathlen > PASS: aki > FAIL: pem-decoding > SKIP: template-test > make[5]: Entering directory > '/tmp/nix-build-gnutls-3.3.1.drv-0/gnutls-3.3.1/tests/cert-tests'

GSoC status

2014-04-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, As you may know, we got one slot for Guix as part of the GNU organization for GSoC. I emailed José and Giuseppe (who take care of that on the GNU side) before going away from keyboard, telling we’d like to have Manolis on the Hurd porting project. Somehow the message got lost. I was away