One side-thread in "Building a software toolchain that works" notes that Guix
faces challenges for adoption because it's not readily available to users of
proprietary operating systems like macOS and Windows.
I've witnessed over the past decade that GNU/Linux development on other
platforms has
One of the side-threads in "Building a software toolchain that works" was
essentially this:
If I fetch sources for a package using Guix, with the intention to make changes
and then build and test the software myself, what should we do with any patches
& snippets that are part of the Guix packag
Hello David,
I am huge fan of Guix on WSL2 and I used to use it a lot 😄. And yes, it should
be documented well (or even better, the installation should be made super
simple) while as you mentioned, it might be easier to do this in another
community.
I don't share the ideology of hardline reje
On 2022-03-17 13:56, zimoun wrote:
Hi Olivier,
On another note, what I find fascinating is why Guix and Nix are not
more used in academic papers.
Indeed.
One part of the answer is, IMHO: it is difficult to spread the word.
For instance, with co-authors, we have tried to write a short paper
zimoun schreef op vr 18-03-2022 om 10:13 [+0100]:
> maybe Jami could be an
> option. IIRC, a service is around
IIUC, the service is not required to hold a meeting, even among more
than two parties. IIUC, one can simply create a ‘rendezvous point’,
share the identifier and tell everyone to connec
On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 21:04:13 -0400 Vagrant Cascadian
wrote
> I haven't really done this sort of thing virtually before; Where would
> be a good place to host it?
As an FSF associate member, you get access to the FSF's Jitsi meet instance
(https://www.fsf.org/associate/benefits).
Hi,
> I haven't really done this sort of thing virtually before; Where would
> be a good place to host it?
We are definitively lacking a BBB instance or something for that. :-)
Depending on the numbers of participants, maybe Jami could be an
option. IIRC, a service is around (an instance is even
On 2022-03-18 07:27, Pjotr Prins wrote:
On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 03:04:18PM -0500, Katherine Cox-Buday wrote:
In addition, because free software is largely developed in people's
spare time, they're going to use whatever tools make them most
productive or even just happy. They're probably not thi
