Updating mono. Adding MSBuild.

2019-03-26 Thread Brett Gilio
Hi all, Our mono package is pretty severely out of date. I want to take care of updating it to a version consistent with this century. However, there seems to be an issue perhaps along the lines similar to bootstrapping Rust and JDK. Mono, for most distributions, seems to be bootstrapped with

Re: Declarative containers

2019-03-26 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello, thanks for your feedback Ludo'! :-) Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] > Given that we already have ‘guix system container’, declarative > containers are a low hanging fruit. "low hanging fruit" is much more expressive than "last mile" :-) > We could have a ‘container’ (or ‘sub-system’?)

Re: 06/15: gnu: wesnoth-server: Rename package to the-battle-for-wesnoth-server.

2019-03-26 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 04:32:46PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Sorry, I misunderstood the conclusion of the discussion: I thought that > we would simply follow the package naming convention as per the manual. I am confused about this statement. The naming convention speaks a bit

Re: Video narration

2019-03-26 Thread Laura Lazzati
Hi Paul! > I have found that the flickering is caused by the change in aspect > ratio as the video moves from the slide view to the screen view (and > back). Parole and Videos have a default 'Auto' setting for aspect > ratio that re-sets the aspect ratio during playback. If I change to a >

Re: Audio/sound (ALSA) in guix environment --container

2019-03-26 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > I’m thinking we should change ‘guix environment -C’ to map to a UID > other than zero, at least by default. When developing code, some tools > may behave differently when running under UID 0 and that’s rarely what > we need I think. Thoughts? I agree. Defaulting

Declarative containers

2019-03-26 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Giovanni Biscuolo skribis: > having that, the "last mile" in *obsoleting* tools like Docker & > Co. (e.g. kubernetes, even openstack probably) is to have a declarative > way to setup containers, something like `containers.` from NixOS > [1] [...] > [1]

Re: Video narration

2019-03-26 Thread Paul Garlick
Hi Laura, > If others could test with their own players that may give us clue. > Sure, as many players, the better. I have found that the flickering is caused by the change in aspect ratio as the video moves from the slide view to the screen view (and back). Parole and Videos have a default

Re: Audio/sound (ALSA) in guix environment --container

2019-03-26 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > I'm trying to run an graphical application with audio in a Guix > environment. > > So far: > > guix environment --container \ > --share=/tmp/.X11-unix/ \ > --share=/dev/snd \ > --ad-hoc foo coreutils -- \ > env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY foo "$@" > > > I get

Re: wip-netlink

2019-03-26 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Gábor, Gábor Boskovits skribis: > I've pushed a branch with some preliminary work on the netlink wrapper > for guix, so that > we can have ipv6 static network configuration, and a bunch of other > goodies, including hopefully container networking. > This is in quite an early stage, I was

Re: 06/15: gnu: wesnoth-server: Rename package to the-battle-for-wesnoth-server.

2019-03-26 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > guix-comm...@gnu.org wrote: >> gnu: wesnoth-server: Rename package to >> the-battle-for-wesnoth-server. > > My fault for totally missing the review window, These changes were not submitted as patches, so there was no review window. It would have been better to

Re: 06/15: gnu: wesnoth-server: Rename package to the-battle-for-wesnoth-server.

2019-03-26 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Pierre, guix-comm...@gnu.org wrote: gnu: wesnoth-server: Rename package to the-battle-for-wesnoth-server. My fault for totally missing the review window, but could we at least drop the articles from the-long-package-names before they become too widespread? (I'll defer to you on l-abbaye,

Re: Package file indexing

2019-03-26 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] >> The daemon could have a special RPC: you give it a file name and it >> returns a store item (or package+version?) or #f. > > I think you meant "store itemS" (plural), no? Yes. >> Internally it’d call ‘guix substitute’ to fetch the