TL;DR: I disagree with many of the claims, I agree that some
documentation using specific examples is useful, I disagree that this
isn't what we are already doing in the Guix manual, I agree that we
don't have per-language landing pages yet and that they could be a
convenient starting point, I
On 28-07-2022 01:15, Ryan Prior wrote:
Is there really a use case for shipping the source code of a JavaScript library
without the interpreter?
Yes -- see "guix build --source" (it's not JavaScript-specific).
If you meant the _compiled_ JavaScript library (result of "guix build
node-...") (
On 28-07-2022 01:15, Ryan Prior wrote:
Why isn't node a dependency for node-mersenne though?
It is. node-mersenne uses node-build-system, which has node (or
node-lts, dunno) in its implicit inputs.
Did you mean: 'Why isn't node propagated?'
For the same reasons as why any plugins don't pro
On 28-07-2022 01:15, Ryan Prior wrote:
At a minimum, can we make `guix shell` warn on stderr if you create a shell
with one or more libraries but no interpreter?
I suppose, but this isn't `guix shell` specific really, it hold for all
users of profiles (including "guix environment", "guix sys
On 28-07-2022 00:25, jgart wrote:
How are users supposed to know to run node and node-mersenne?:
They know that, because that was the premise of what they were trying to do:
You wrote: "how does a js developer use `guix shell` to load a js line
like node-rimraf in a repl currently`:
In par
On +2022-07-30 13:40:46 +, Luis Felipe wrote:
> Hello,
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> On Wednesday, July 27th, 2022 at 23:15, Ryan Prior
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> > On Wednesday, July 27th, 2022 at 10:25 PM, jgart jg...@dismail.de wrote:
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> > > On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 11:33:43 +0200 Maxime Devos maximede...@telenet.be
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Hello,
On Wednesday, July 27th, 2022 at 23:15, Ryan Prior
wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 27th, 2022 at 10:25 PM, jgart jg...@dismail.de wrote:
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> > On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 11:33:43 +0200 Maxime Devos maximede...@telenet.be
> > wrote:
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> > Hi Maxime,
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> > Hope all is well.
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> > > Le
