Re: GSoC-2018

2018-04-28 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
This is a great idea, I'd really love to see this come true! Good luck and happy hacking! -- Pierre Neidhardt I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade. -- Golfer Bobby Jones on being told that it was 105 degrees in the shade. signature.asc Description: P

Re: Rebasing guile-daemon branch onto master

2018-04-28 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 07:10:00PM +, Sandeep Subramanian wrote: > Shall I now rebase by picking only these 30 commits? > > I don't know if what I am doing is right. I could use some guidance and > criticism now. Yes, I think that picking only those 30 commits is the right thing to do. Pleas

Re: GSoC-2018

2018-04-28 Thread Caleb Ristvedt
Hi Sandeep/uniq10, welcome! I'm the person that worked on the rewrite last year (I like to go by reepca in conversations and irc). I'm glad that you'll be working on it this summer. I still feel like I didn't do enough last summer, though, so if there's any way I can help, I'd be glad to (though t

Re: Rebasing guile-daemon branch onto master

2018-04-28 Thread Sandeep Subramanian
> I was trying to rebase the guile-daemon branch onto the master branch > and I have some trouble doing it. > The interactive git rebase showed me that there are 932 commits to be > picked but most of them had no relation to the daemon code (Most commits > were package addition/update commits.) I

You say nix, I say guix: Nix 2.0 and Guix

2018-04-28 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi, On February 22nd, Nix 2.0 was released: https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ssec-relnotes-2.0 It contains a lot of interesting new features. Are there any plans to merge some of the nix-daemon changes into our guix-daemon? Is compatibility with the nix-daemon a goal of the Guix project? Can we

Re: Should python-build-system packages have native-inputs?

2018-04-28 Thread Chris Marusich
Hartmut Goebel writes: >> the python-build-system does not cross-compile. > > In any case, this is a current limitation only :-) I see. If we actually do plan on implementing some kind of cross-compilation support for the python-build-system, then I can understand why it makes sense to proactive

Re: Mes 0.13 released

2018-04-28 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Jan, Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > I am pleased to announce the release of Mes 0.13, representing 45 > commits over 3 weeks. MesCC can now compile a functional tcc when > running on Mes (in ~1h45') or on Guile (in ~3min). That is absolutely awesome! My deepest, deepest respekt for your work!

Rebasing guile-daemon branch onto master

2018-04-28 Thread Sandeep Subramanian
Hi all, I was trying to rebase the guile-daemon branch onto the master branch and I have some trouble doing it. The interactive git rebase showed me that there are 932 commits to be picked but most of them had no relation to the daemon code (Most commits were package addition/update commits.) I a

Re: GSoC-2018

2018-04-28 Thread Kei Kebreau
Sandeep Subramanian writes: > Hi all, > > I am Sandeep Subramanian (uniq10) and I have been selected for the > GSoC-2018 project "Continue rewrite build daemon in Guile Scheme". > (Project description: > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2018#Continue_rewrite_build_daemon_in_Guile_Sche

New Spanish PO file for 'shepherd' (version 0.3.3-pre1)

2018-04-28 Thread Translation Project Robot
Hello, gentle maintainer. This is a message from the Translation Project robot. A revised PO file for textual domain 'shepherd' has been submitted by the Spanish team of translators. The file is available at: http://translationproject.org/latest/shepherd/es.po (We can arrange things so tha

Mes 0.13 released

2018-04-28 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
I am pleased to announce the release of Mes 0.13, representing 45 commits over 3 weeks. MesCC can now compile a functional tcc when running on Mes (in ~1h45') or on Guile (in ~3min). This means that we are getting very close to a full source bootstrap of tcc: it is now built without gcc, glibc or

Re: Should python-build-system packages have native-inputs?

2018-04-28 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 28.04.2018 um 12:11 schrieb Chris Marusich: I understand your concerns, and I understand why this is hard to get for a Pythonista. But this is exactly why we added this section to the manual. > Because the python-build-system never cross-compiles, This is an implementation detail which might

Re: Should python-build-system packages have native-inputs?

2018-04-28 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi Fis and Hartmut, Thank you for the quick response! Hartmut Goebel writes: > As Fis already wrote:  These native-inputs are for testing and shouldn't > be installed in normal case. It's true that for some of the packages that use the python-build-system, we have been putting the dependencies

Re: Should python-build-system packages have native-inputs?

2018-04-28 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 28.04.2018 um 08:50 schrieb Chris Marusich: > * Should we change these native-inputs to inputs to prevent confusion? > I can personally vouch for the fact that the presence of native-inputs > in python-build-system packages confused the heck out of me at first!   As Fis already wrote:  These

Re: Should python-build-system packages have native-inputs?

2018-04-28 Thread Fis Trivial
Chris Marusich writes: > Hi Guix, > > I've noticed that a fair number of packages in gnu/packages/python.scm > using the python-build-system declare native-inputs. I suspect that in > every case, these should actually just be inputs. I also suspect that > this is benign, except perhaps for the