`Scheme-only' bootstrap progress

2019-01-14 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Hi! I have just reset the wip-bootstrap branch on savannah with the first functional version of the `Scheme-only' bootstrap. Finishing this will be the next milestone after the `Reduced Binary Seed' bootstrap that removed binutils, gcc and glibc from the bootstrap binaries. Now also bash, bzip2,

Re: Communication and Design at Guix

2019-01-14 Thread swedebugia
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi! > > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: >> It’s fine to deviate from the consistent style. We do that already for >> the style sheet that’s used for our HTML documentation. Compare this: >> >> https://www.gnu.org/software/sharutils/manual/html_node/index.html >> >> with t

Re: Getting to 1.0!

2019-01-14 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
> I have picked up work on a texlive profile hook and have something > that’s already working. I’d like to make a few more changes before > asking for a review, though, as the current version does not work with > “texlive-tiny”, making it a little too difficult to use as *all* > packages (includi

Re: GNOME 3.30: help needed!

2019-01-14 Thread L p R n d n
Hello, Sorry for the delay, I had some troubles building webkitgtk. I started gnome successfully from slim on my usual computer! Good job everybody! Most things seem ok but not everything. FYI, I use a custom kernel so some errors might just be specific to my own config. This is why it could be n

Re: Getting to 1.0!

2019-01-14 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
> FOSDEM is only a couple of weeks away, and as we know, FOSDEM is the > proclaimed deadline for 1.0. We’ve come a long way but there are still > quite a few things to address before we can reasonably release 1.0: > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/doc/1.0.org I h

Re: Communication and Design at Guix

2019-01-14 Thread L p R n d n
HeLlO, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi! > > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> L p R n d n writes: >> > What about guix.info? We can do whatever we want there I suppose and just > link > to it from the gnu site. Well in general we can always do whatever we want. :-) I do think

Re: Communication and Design at Guix

2019-01-14 Thread L p R n d n
Hey, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi, > > L p R n d n skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: > > [...] > >>> A very concrete task that could be of interest to you is the “name >>> change” (a bit of a strong word) that we’d like to implement by 1.0. >>> I’ll try to summarize. Currently we hav

Re: GRUB fallback mechanism [was Re: Brain storming cool Guix features]

2019-01-14 Thread L p R n d n
Hello, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> swedebugia writes: >> >>> Leo Famulari skrev: (11 januari 2019 23:32:12 CET) > > [...] > Apparently GRUB has a feature that records a "fallback" system to boot if booting fails. Maybe when reconfiguring, Guix could

Re: NPM breakthrough with test packages and weird error

2019-01-14 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le 2019-01-14 13:27, swedebugia a écrit : Julien Lepiller skrev: (12 januari 2019 23:26:10 CET) Le Sat, 12 Jan 2019 11:08:03 -0800, swedebu...@riseup.net a écrit : On 2019-01-12 18:57, swedebu...@riseup.net wrote: Hi I have good (and bad) news! Today I worked intensely on the node-build-sys

Re: Packaging FreeCAD

2019-01-14 Thread Paul Garlick
Hi John, > I did not know Debian changed their version of opencascade There are two versions of OpenCASCADE in Debian, named 'liboce' and 'libocct'. 'occt' is the upstream variant, 'oce' is the community maintained variant. Historically, Debian has switched between the two as licence requiremen

Re: NPM breakthrough with test packages and weird error

2019-01-14 Thread swedebugia
Julien Lepiller skrev: (12 januari 2019 23:26:10 CET) >Le Sat, 12 Jan 2019 11:08:03 -0800, >swedebu...@riseup.net a écrit : > >> On 2019-01-12 18:57, swedebu...@riseup.net wrote: >> > Hi >> > >> > I have good (and bad) news! >> > >> > Today I worked intensely on the node-build-system, importer a

Adding versioning to our recursive importer

2019-01-14 Thread swedebugia
Hi I would like some help from someone who understands the recursive importer. The reason is that in our npm-importer we have to support different versions of the same packages to avoid circular dependencies (which happen e.g. when importing gulp when not considering versions). Doing this ma

Re: Article: Playing with Guix REPL from scratch

2019-01-14 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi Ludo, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Chris, > > Chris Marusich skribis: > >> FYI, there is an email list specifically for blog post review: >> guix-b...@gnu.org. I'm not sure if it's still active, since I can't >> find an entry for it on lists.gnu.org. In the future (assuming it's >> still a