Is Guix suitable for large monorepos?

2022-07-21 Thread jgart
Is Guix suitable for large monorepos? How does Guix compare to pants in the python arena? https://yewtu.be/watch?v=p4stnR1gCR4 https://www.pantsbuild.org/

Re: debbugs irritation Was: [WIP Patch] Adding an FHS container to guix shell

2022-07-21 Thread Csepp
zimoun writes: > Hi, > > On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 at 02:20, Csepp wrote: >> I was looking for this patch on issues.guix.gnu.org and could not figure >> out why it's not there and I'd just like to point out that having like 6 >> mailing lists with at least two separate indexes is... not great :) I

Translating news on weblate?

2022-07-21 Thread Julien Lepiller
Hi Guix! I was thinking we could have our news file translated at weblate, which would help having more people translate it. Attached is a script that is able to generate a pot file from the news.scm file and a translated news.scm file from the existing news.scm and a directory that contains the

Re: debbugs irritation Was: [WIP Patch] Adding an FHS container to guix shell

2022-07-21 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 at 02:20, Csepp wrote: > I was looking for this patch on issues.guix.gnu.org and could not figure > out why it's not there and I'd just like to point out that having like 6 > mailing lists with at least two separate indexes is... not great :) I > appreciate everyone's

Re: native-inputs: Go for completeness or minimalism?

2022-07-21 Thread zimoun
Hi Hartmut, On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 at 10:33, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Personally I tend to minimal. Me too. Being minimal is better on all aspects, IMHO. The only drawback is indeed “guix shell -D”. But, people developing can add the missing or extra packages. To me, Guix provides the minimal

Re: Could Guix System eventually run on top of HyperbolaBSD ? slightly off topic

2022-07-21 Thread zimoun
Hi Raghav, On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 at 12:03, Raghav Gururajan wrote: > [1] The idea isn't off-topic, because, Guix is meant to be kernel > agnostic. So exploring HyperbolaBSD as a kernel option for Guix is with > in the prospect. Hum, I do not think that Guix is agnostic about the standard C

gwl-0.5.0 released [stable]

2022-07-21 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
We are pleased to announce the release of the GNU Guix Workflow Language version 0.5.0, representing 46 commits by two people, incorporating the results of productive discussions among a number of helpful people on the #guix and #guix-hpc IRC channels on libera.chat and on the gwl-de...@gnu.org

Re: Building, packaging and updating Guix with confidence

2022-07-21 Thread Maxime Devos
On 21-07-2022 18:10, Josselin Poiret wrote: b...@bokr.com writes: Naively: Why does "the" guix daemon per se need root access at all? The main thing is that all files in the store end up being written by the guix daemon user. So if we want the files to be easily substitutable, they'd need

Re: Building, packaging and updating Guix with confidence

2022-07-21 Thread Josselin Poiret
Hello, b...@bokr.com writes: > Naively: > > Why does "the" guix daemon per se need root access at all? The main thing is that all files in the store end up being written by the guix daemon user. So if we want the files to be easily substitutable, they'd need to have a fixed uid/gid, and the

Re: Dealing with non-ASCII file names in BOOTSTRAP-ORIGIN

2022-07-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Marius Bakke skribis: > I tried switching to GCC 11 on the core-updates branch, but it fails > early when attempting to repack the GCC source code for GCC-BOOT0, > because some files in its test suite contains non-ASCII characters: > > [... unpacking ...] > patching file gcc/builtins.c >

Re: Guix Without Scheme

2022-07-21 Thread Csepp
Munyoki Kilyungi writes: > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > Hi Csepp! > > Csepp anaandika: > >> jgart writes: >> >>> Hi Guixers, >>> >>> I just wanted to share this presentation that Singpolyma gave titled "Guix >>> Without Scheme": >>> >>>