Re: Problems when trying to install a package via guile API

2014-08-18 Thread Thompson, David
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Mark H Weaver m...@netris.org wrote: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: David Thompson dthomps...@worcester.edu skribis: ERROR: In procedure #syntax-transformer derivation?: ERROR: Wrong type to apply: #syntax-transformer derivation? 0

Referencing native builds from gexps

2014-08-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
I’m pushing a commit that adds support for new unquote forms for g-expressions: ‘ungexp-native’ or #+, and ‘ungexp-native-splicing’ or #+@. Note that this changes the ABI so make sure to run: make clean-go make The rationale is given in the manual: --8---cut

Re: How to include Guix 0.8 in Guix 0.8

2014-08-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
m...@netris.org skribis: At present, every version of Guix always contains an older version of itself. We needed a post-0.7 version of Guix to create a USB installer that contains Guix-0.7, but unfortunately it installs an older version of Guix on the hard drive. If you then use the version

Re: Package test service for GNU maintainers

2014-08-18 Thread Jason Self
Since GNU maintainers (in theory) already upload their stuff to ftp.gnu.org or alpha.gnu.org using that file triplet it might be nice if something could be worked into their existing workflow. Perhaps new commands in the directive file to do the things you describe? This would probably require