Tracker & Gnome

2018-10-07 Thread Brett Gilio
Hi all. I am still fairly new to the concept of packaging for Guix. I also, from time to time, enjoy hacking on GNOME components. One of the components that I am currently lacking is tracker-sparql-2.0. I am pretty certain this is due to the tracker package being out-of-date. Do you all have

Re: GNU Mes 0.18 released

2018-10-07 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > That’s awesome! Thank you! Thanks for your support. > What is M2 Planet? M2-Planet is a very simple C-subset (C with-structs) compiler, written in M1 assembly, fully bootstrappable from source https://github.com/oriansj/m2-planet It's not yet ready to compi

Re: GNU Mes 0.18 released

2018-10-07 Thread ACCOUNT VERIFY
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Re: GNU Mes 0.18 released

2018-10-07 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > Mes is now bringing a Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap to GuixSD; the > size of bootstrap binaries has been halved and no regular toolchain > binaries are used as binary seeds (i686-linux and x86_64-linux only). > > MesCC has been refactored to use an abstracted assembly

Re: Regards from Outreachy applicant

2018-10-07 Thread Björn Höfling
On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 16:32:38 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > Hi everyone, > > My name is Laura and I am applying for the outreachy program. > > I have already introduced myself in the IRC channel, but I am also > doing so here. > > I'm an Information Systems Engineer from Argentina, who graduated

Re: GNU Mes 0.18 released

2018-10-07 Thread Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski
Amazing ! Good job! Jeko Le 7 octobre 2018 17:18:54 GMT+02:00, Jan Nieuwenhuizen a écrit : >We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.18, representing >83 commits over 8 weeks. > >Mes is now bringing a Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap to GuixSD; the >size of bootstrap binaries has been h

Regards from Outreachy applicant

2018-10-07 Thread Laura Lazzati
Hi everyone, My name is Laura and I am applying for the outreachy program. I have already introduced myself in the IRC channel, but I am also doing so here. I'm an Information Systems Engineer from Argentina, who graduated with honors. I liked really much your project. I worked in two HPC superc

Re: rootless Guix

2018-10-07 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Hi, Not answering your question, but I think it's an awesome idea! Could this possibly be the last step needed to enable Guix as an "embeddable" package manager, in the sense that it could be used by any project as the main mean of distributing components? (E.g. a programming language with librar

rootless Guix

2018-10-07 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi, it would be nice if we could simplify the case where a user does not have root access, but the system supports user namespaces. Currently, a user would have to perform a number of non-obvious steps to somehow run the Guix daemon in an environment where the filesystem is virtualized. It would

GNU Mes 0.18 released

2018-10-07 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.18, representing 83 commits over 8 weeks. Mes is now bringing a Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap to GuixSD; the size of bootstrap binaries has been halved and no regular toolchain binaries are used as binary seeds (i686-linux and x86_64-linux only).

Re: Packaging Inferno

2018-10-07 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 10:11:54AM +0200, Diego Nicola Barbato wrote: > Hello Guix, > > I have written a package definition for Inferno and I would like to know > if it would make sense to add it to Guix. I am asking because I am not > sure if it is compatible with the FSDG (bundled fonts, tradem