Re: A Forum for Guix Users

2023-07-16 Thread Csepp
Pjotr Prins writes: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 02:10:49PM -0700, Felix Lechner via Development of > GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. wrote: ... >> 1. Our community is small, and possibly shrinking. > > I doubt that is true in absolute terms. You should see where we were > 10 years ago

Re: Development repositories as Guix channels

2023-07-16 Thread Arun Isaac
> Another person reported that missing bit to me and I’ve now fixed the > blog post. Apologies for the waste of time! No worries! It's been a very enlightening blog post. Thanks for writing it!

Re: News from Cuirass

2023-07-16 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Ludovic, On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 6:53 AM Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Cuirass now uses a database > connection pool That is super exciting! In another implementation the pooling code comes with the database interface [1] which makes it available more broadly. Could the pooling code, whi

Re: Adding GNAT/GCC-Ada to Guix

2023-07-16 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 08:47:41 + Fernando Oleo Blanco wrote: > Dear Guix community, Hi, > Why did I tell all of this? > Because I would like to add GCC-Ada to Guix and I am fully aware of > the work that the Guix and the #bootstrappable people are doing > towards a fully transparent compilatio

News from Cuirass

2023-07-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! A couple of months ago, I found myself working on hot fixes for Cuirass, whose repository had been gathering dust for months. One thing leads to another, and I’ve worked on a few improvements recently: • Guile-Squee (interface to PostgreSQL) now cooperates with Fibers, meaning

Re: First line should describe the file, not Guix

2023-07-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, "McSinyx" via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." skribis: > I suggest changing the first line into describing the source file, > which goes in hand with I agree in principle (this is what many GNU packages would traditionally do), but there are many files in Guix the

Re: Development repositories as Guix channels

2023-07-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Arun Isaac skribis: >> 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 p

Re: Transformations Shell Syntax

2023-07-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, "jgart" skribis: > In other words being able to specify workers with shepherd: > > Starting multiple workers: > > $ herd start microblog-tasks@{1..4} > $ herd status microblog-tasks@{1..4} > > Restarting a particular worker: > > $ herd restart microblog-tasks@3 > > WDYT I’ve never felt the

Adding GNAT/GCC-Ada to Guix

2023-07-16 Thread Fernando Oleo Blanco
Dear Guix community, I would like to bring once again [1] the discussion regarding the addition of a modern Ada compiler to Guix. In this case, GCC-Ada, aka GNAT. TL;DR: GCC-Ada/GNAT cannot be bootstrapped. I would like to package a binary up until a bootstrap path is available; which is alread

Re: A Forum for Guix Users

2023-07-16 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 02:10:49PM -0700, Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. wrote: > Hi Robby and Sarthak, > > On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 7:17 AM Robby Zambito wrote: > > > > I personally think that it would be wiser to improve the documentation > > relating