Re: Development repositories as Guix channels

2023-07-09 Thread Arun Isaac
Hi Daniel, > You have to replace the relative path in the local-file form with > "../.." as that gives you the root of your source tree relative to the > new location of the Scheme file. Then everything works nicely. Thank you! That's all I was missing. Now everything works perfectly! >

First line should describe the file, not Guix

2023-07-09 Thread McSinyx
Hello Guix, All Scheme source file in Guix starts with > ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU which is definitely the first thing one looks for right after openning one. For example, when I look into aa.scm, I need to know whether it is for _ambiguous abbreviations_ or _any

First line should describe the file, not Guix

2023-07-09 Thread McSinyx
Hello Guix, All Scheme source file in Guix starts with > ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU which is definitely the first thing one looks for right after openning one. For example, when I look into aa.scm, I need to know whether it is for _ambiguous abbreviations_ or _any

Re: Stable endpoint to fetch guix binary

2023-07-09 Thread André A . Gomes
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi, > > André A. Gomes skribis: > >> The latest Guix binaries can be fetched via >> >> https://ci.guix.gnu.org/search/latest/archive?query=spec:tarball+status:success+system:x86_64-linux+guix-binary.tar.xz >> >> However, this doesn't always work. For instance, as of

Re: guidelines for package names (namespaces?)

2023-07-09 Thread Juliana Sims
Hi Andy, There are some guidelines for naming packages, as discussed in the manual: https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/Package-Naming.html. Ultimately, of course, the final say rests with the commiters who do or do not accept a given patch in a given state. As for namespaces,