Re: Using openjdk9 as the default JDK

2019-03-05 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Alex Vong writes: > From this page , the > latest icedtea is for openjdk 8. Does this mean that we have to patch > icedtea to build openjdk 11? We already have packages for later JDKs. -- Ricardo

Guix on the ASUS C201PA

2019-03-05 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi guix-devel, I was able to get Guix to boot on an ASUS Chromebook C201PA. This model of computer is pretty neat. It’s an ARMv7 (32-bit) machine that can be run with entirely free software. There is even a free graphics driver in the works [1]. I’ve attached a (messy) patch that adds a (hacky

Re: [video repo] when making videos inside container images break

2019-03-05 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello Björn, Björn Höfling ezt írta (időpont: 2019. márc. 6., Sze, 7:44): > > On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 20:30:51 +0100 > Gábor Boskovits wrote: > > > > Then I looked around the package definition of inkscape, where I found > > no sign of cairo... > > > > I tried adding it to the container, and it seems

Re: [video repo] when making videos inside container images break

2019-03-05 Thread Björn Höfling
On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 20:30:51 +0100 Gábor Boskovits wrote: > Then I looked around the package definition of inkscape, where I found > no sign of cairo... > > I tried adding it to the container, and it seems to be working fine > here. Hi Gábor, thank you for that analysis! Do you think it would

Packages with the same description

2019-03-05 Thread mikadoZero
Issue: Packages with the same synopsis and description. Why does it matter: This is an issue for people who want to know the difference between the packages. Particularly if they do not understand dependencies or are not going to look at the source code for the packages. Examples: guile-emacs

How-to solve runpath-errors when splitting packages?

2019-03-05 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Hi, I'm currently packaging zbar (a bar-code scanner suite). zbar includes "generic" binaries as well as "qt" anf "gtk" ones (zbarcam, zbarcam-qt, zbarcam-gtk). I want to avoid having qt or gtk or even both as a dependency of the `zbar` packages, as these would pull in *huge* dependencies. I alre

Re: Using openjdk9 as the default JDK

2019-03-05 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, 2019. márc. 5., K 20:00 dátummal Alex Vong ezt írta: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > > > Hi Gábor, > > > >>> there are a few packages now that require Java 9, such as > >>> java-eclipse-jdt-compiler-apt (that I’m currently packaging). > >>> > >>> We should aim to use openjdk9 as the default J

Re: Using openjdk9 as the default JDK

2019-03-05 Thread Alex Vong
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Gábor, > >>> there are a few packages now that require Java 9, such as >>> java-eclipse-jdt-compiler-apt (that I’m currently packaging). >>> >>> We should aim to use openjdk9 as the default JDK. >>> >>> What do you think? >>> >> >> Do you think that aiming for openjdk1

Re: Packaging CDEmu and VHBA kernel module

2019-03-05 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Hi again, Thanks for the tips, Chris, and sorry for the long silence. > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-07/msg01457.html > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-02/msg00446.html > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-12/msg00221.html Hmmm... As far

Re: Video narration

2019-03-05 Thread Laura Lazzati
Hi! > Sure. Can you give me a few more details about what is required: Oh, that is really great, thank you very much :) > i) how many videos are there? Up to now, six (I have to upload the last one). But we can try with 03-help. If you want, you can build them by cloning git.savannah.gnu.org/git

Re: Raco importer

2019-03-05 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Brett Gilio writes: > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > >> That'd be awesome! > > > Maybe i'm jumping the gun here. But once I get a working raco importer, > would there be any objection to moving racket from scheme.scm to > racket.scm, and subsequently placing raco derived imports in > racket-xyz.scm? >

Re: Video narration

2019-03-05 Thread Paul Garlick
Hi Laura, > I just wanted to ask you if you are still interested in contributing > being the narrator of our videos. Sure. Can you give me a few more details about what is required: i) how many videos are there? ii) are there two types of video, one for command line sessions and one for slides?

Re: Compressing nars with lzip or similar

2019-03-05 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
I'll get down to this this week. -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/

Video narration

2019-03-05 Thread Laura Lazzati
Hi Paul! How are you? I just wanted to ask you if you are still interested in contributing being the narrator of our videos. They have my voice now, and a transcript. Of course that I will mention the timing, and arrange the subtitles for the command line session videos, so that you just have to

Re: A potential user is asking me about the videos to learn Guix

2019-03-05 Thread Laura Lazzati
Hi former mentor :) - sounds weird :/ > > I am writing to the whole list so that all the community can tell me > > what I should answer. > > I've just talked to my client, and we will spin up a VM with 10G stroge for > the > temporary files tomorrow. Until this is done, you could upload the > fi

Re: A potential user is asking me about the videos to learn Guix

2019-03-05 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello Laura, Laura Lazzati ezt írta (időpont: 2019. márc. 5., K, 13:06): > > Hi Guix! > (Sorry Gábor, Björn, Ludo and Ricardo for the CC) > > Since I've been answering questions on my Twitter account about > Outreachy, there is a person asking me where to find the videos, for > using - and who kn

A potential user is asking me about the videos to learn Guix

2019-03-05 Thread Laura Lazzati
Hi Guix! (Sorry Gábor, Björn, Ludo and Ricardo for the CC) Since I've been answering questions on my Twitter account about Outreachy, there is a person asking me where to find the videos, for using - and who knows, joining ;), you can't deny I am a great promoter of the project - Guix Would you l

Re: Using openjdk9 as the default JDK

2019-03-05 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Gábor, >> there are a few packages now that require Java 9, such as >> java-eclipse-jdt-compiler-apt (that I’m currently packaging). >> >> We should aim to use openjdk9 as the default JDK. >> >> What do you think? >> > > Do you think that aiming for openjdk11 directly is too much? > 9 is not

Re: Using openjdk9 as the default JDK

2019-03-05 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus ezt írta (időpont: 2019. márc. 5., K, 10:09): > > Hi Guix, > > there are a few packages now that require Java 9, such as > java-eclipse-jdt-compiler-apt (that I’m currently packaging). > > We should aim to use openjdk9 as the default JDK. > > What do you think? > Do

Re: Using openjdk9 as the default JDK

2019-03-05 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le 2019-03-05 10:08, Ricardo Wurmus a écrit : Hi Guix, there are a few packages now that require Java 9, such as java-eclipse-jdt-compiler-apt (that I’m currently packaging). We should aim to use openjdk9 as the default JDK. What do you think? -- Ricardo sounds good, but that will give us a

Using openjdk9 as the default JDK

2019-03-05 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Guix, there are a few packages now that require Java 9, such as java-eclipse-jdt-compiler-apt (that I’m currently packaging). We should aim to use openjdk9 as the default JDK. What do you think? -- Ricardo