Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-08-29 Thread Clément Lassieur
Hi Mike, Mike Gerwitz writes: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:03:07 +0200, Clément Lassieur wrote: >> Firefox 52 isn't supported anymore upstream[1] and we don't have a >> package for Firefox 60. Currently the only alternative is Epiphany but >> it's close to unusable (it crashes every 5 minutes,

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-08-29 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:03:07 +0200, Clément Lassieur wrote: > Firefox 52 isn't supported anymore upstream[1] and we don't have a > package for Firefox 60. Currently the only alternative is Epiphany but > it's close to unusable (it crashes every 5 minutes, and sometimes > freezes my computer).

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-08-29 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
Le jeu. 30 août 2018 à 00:35, Clément Lassieur a écrit : > > Hi Amirouche, > > Thanks for your answer. > > Amirouche Boubekki writes: > > > Let's choose our battle wisely. I want to remind that the core of the > > guix users are GNU followers and are also anything but pro web or pro > > web brows

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-08-29 Thread Clément Lassieur
Hi Amirouche, Thanks for your answer. Amirouche Boubekki writes: > Let's choose our battle wisely. I want to remind that the core of the > guix users are GNU followers and are also anything but pro web or pro > web browser or a variation of that. I don't say every GNU follower is > against the

Re: Haskel LTS 12.8.

2018-08-29 Thread Timothy Sample
Hello, Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Tim, > >> To avoid duplicating work, I wanted to let you know that I am working on >> updating the Haskell packages to their LTS 12.8 versions. This will go >> nicely with the new GHC 8.4.3. > > Excellent! I have a couple of new package definitions and a few

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-08-29 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
Hello all :] I will confess that if I use Ubuntu today, long story short, it's because of the web browser. I could not find my way around patchelf so I gave up and installed Ubuntu. The matter relates to me a lot! Le mer. 29 août 2018 à 11:03, Clément Lassieur a écrit : > > Hi, > > Firefox 52 i

Re: FOSDEM 2019

2018-08-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Heya, Christopher Lemmer Webber skribis: > I added a talk topic: "A Guiler's Year of Racket". I think there's a > lot we could learn from our fellow friends in Racket-land, and I'd like > to share some of that! I’d be very interested in listening to it! Ludo’.

Re: A major milestone in bootstrapping

2018-08-29 Thread Joshua Branson
jerem...@pdp10.guru writes: > > Soon we hope to finish the MesCC bootstrap from M2-Planet and then we > will have a complete bootstrap path from 250byte hex0 all the way up to > gcc ^_^ Wow! Just Wow! I have a question though. It sounds like a bunch of this is assembly...Is assembly portable?

Re: Guix on aarch64

2018-08-29 Thread Joshua Branson
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Leo, > >> On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 12:13:44PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: >>> Regardless, I think we should seriously consider moving the Aarch64 >>> build slave(s) to Hydra for now, until Cuirass is more mature. >> >> I agree with your points about why berlin.guixsd.or

Re: Haskel LTS 12.8.

2018-08-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Tim, > To avoid duplicating work, I wanted to let you know that I am working on > updating the Haskell packages to their LTS 12.8 versions. This will go > nicely with the new GHC 8.4.3. Excellent! I have a couple of new package definitions and a few minor updates that I wanted to push to t

Re: Subscription Canceled

2018-08-29 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
Thank you for your help! Le mer. 29 août 2018 à 20:31, Ricardo Wurmus a écrit : > > Hi Amirouche, > > > I don't receive mails from guix-devel anymore on my other mail box > > amirou...@hypermove.net. > > > > It is not the first time it happens. > > > > Do you know why? > > This sometimes happens

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-08-29 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:03:07AM +0200, Clément Lassieur wrote: > Firefox 52 isn't supported anymore upstream[1] and we don't have a > package for Firefox 60. Currently the only alternative is Epiphany but > it's close to unusable (it crashes every 5 minutes, and sometimes > freezes my computer)

Re: Subscription Canceled

2018-08-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Amirouche, > I don't receive mails from guix-devel anymore on my other mail box > amirou...@hypermove.net. > > It is not the first time it happens. > > Do you know why? This sometimes happens when there has been excessive amount of bounces. My subscription has also been cancelled at least on

Subscription Canceled

2018-08-29 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
Hello, I don't receive mails from guix-devel anymore on my other mail box amirou...@hypermove.net. It is not the first time it happens. Do you know why? Best regards, Amirouche

Haskel LTS 12.8.

2018-08-29 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi Ricardo (and Guix), To avoid duplicating work, I wanted to let you know that I am working on updating the Haskell packages to their LTS 12.8 versions. This will go nicely with the new GHC 8.4.3. I am keeping the work on a WIP branch that I have here:

Re: [rb-general] A major milestone in bootstrapping

2018-08-29 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB) writes: >> Interesting... I'm looking at >> https://github.com/oriansj/M2-Planet/blob/master/seed.M1 >> How was it written? It seems like a monumental task to write all >> that and keep enough context in one's head! > Then again, I have >> never written assembly before...

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-08-29 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Clément Lassieur writes: > Hi, > > Firefox 52 isn't supported anymore upstream[1] and we don't have a > package for Firefox 60. Currently the only alternative is Epiphany but > it's close to unusable (it crashes every 5 minutes, and sometimes > freezes my computer). > > So the question is: can we

Re: Roadmap for Guix 1.0

2018-08-29 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
"There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things" On 2018-07-30 03:23, Pjotr Prins wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 05:18:21PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: #+TITLE: Roadmap for Guix 1.0, 2018 * miscellaneous ** TODO “GuixSD” renamed to “Guix Sys

Re: Roadmap for Guix 1.0

2018-08-29 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
Le lun. 20 août 2018 à 09:45, Ricardo Wurmus a écrit : > > Amirouche Boubekki writes: > > >> I’ve pushed to guix/maintenance.git a list of things that IMO we should > >> do or might want to do for 1.0, with the understanding that 1.0 should > >> happen in 2018 (or early 2019 at the latest!). :-

Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-08-29 Thread Clément Lassieur
Hi, Firefox 52 isn't supported anymore upstream[1] and we don't have a package for Firefox 60. Currently the only alternative is Epiphany but it's close to unusable (it crashes every 5 minutes, and sometimes freezes my computer). So the question is: can we push the Chromium package? I've read i