Cuirass upgrade on ci.guix

2023-10-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! A few hours ago I deployed current Cuirass on ci.guix and its build machines. The expected benefits are: 1. Better throughput. I fixed a bug that would lead “workers” to eventually get ignored by ‘cuirass remote-server’, meaning they would become idle until either the se

Re: "Parameterized Packages: The Project Completion Update"

2023-10-02 Thread Munyoki Kilyungi
Lost in communication I guess ;) Andy Tai aliandika: > no, not my effort. I just pointed out that report. credit to the > real author Sarthak Shah > I've actually met Sarthak on Matrix where he was talking about his work to our group. I used to stick around to hear what he had up his plate.

Re: "Parameterized Packages: The Project Completion Update"

2023-10-02 Thread Andy Tai
no, not my effort. I just pointed out that report. credit to the real author Sarthak Shah On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 1:13 PM Munyoki Kilyungi wrote: > > Andy Tai aliandika: > > > Not seen mentioned on this mailing list yet, so probably of interest: > > GSOC project's final report: > > https://bl

Re: "Parameterized Packages: The Project Completion Update"

2023-10-02 Thread Munyoki Kilyungi
Andy Tai aliandika: > Not seen mentioned on this mailing list yet, so probably of interest: > GSOC project's final report: > https://blog.lispy.tech/parameterized-packages-the-project-completion-update.html > Thanks for the effort! -- (Life is like a pencil that will surely run out, but w

A different way to build GCC to overcome issues, especially with C++ for embedded systems

2023-10-02 Thread Stefan
Hi! As some of you probably know, there are issues using GCC to compile C++ code, especially for embedded systems.¹²³⁴⁵ Another problem I encountered is that there is only one libstdc++ version, which may not match the GCC version one might wish to use. I stumbled into these problems while

Re: OCI-backed Guix System Services

2023-10-02 Thread Alexey Abramov
I am playing with Talos right now, which is a Kubernetes Linux distribution. It doesn't provide any ssh access. You can configure it using api only. I am wondering if anyone wants to work (or working) on similar thing using Guix, Shepherd and Goblins. It would be great to just boot guix w

Re: GUI for Guix

2023-10-02 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Adam Faiz writes: >> The last message in that issue discussion is mine: > >>FWIW M-x guix-installed-packages (and all the other stuff) works for me > >> Is it *actually* broken? If it is and you can provide information on > how to trigger the broken behavior we might be a step closer to fi

Re: The e(macs)lephant in the room and the Guix Bang

2023-10-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Andy, Andy Tai skribis: > Regardless of one's opinion of emacs, I just want to add that this is > itself strange. I have contributed some (package definition) patches > to guix, all without using emacs. > > I am not an emacs user, so emacs is not necessary for contributing to guix. > For wha

Re: OCI-backed Guix System Services

2023-10-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: >> I was recently inspired from Nix's oci-container feature and wrote a thin >> wrapper around the docker CLI to enable the management of >> docker containers through Shepherd [0]. This enables handling of non >> packaged services through guix system reconfigure and

Re: Guix Survey (follow up on "How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?")

2023-10-02 Thread Wilko Meyer
Hi Katherine, Katherine Cox-Buday writes: > This is awesome, thanks Wilko! > > I've been talking with my wife who is the field of psychology. As part > of her degree, and as part of her ongoing education, she's studied how > to design studies/surveys so that they're not biased and don't produc

Re: The e(macs)lephant in the room and the Guix Bang

2023-10-02 Thread Munyoki Kilyungi
Janneke Nieuwenhuizen aliandika: [...] >> >> Thank you for your opinion but it's just that: a subjective judgement >> based on your own episodic experience. > > I'm sorry if my tone was too harsh, I now realise this is still > triggering old pain. > > Why is it still OK to for people to keep s

Re: Guix Days and Fosdem 2024

2023-10-02 Thread Munyoki Kilyungi
Pjotr Prins aliandika: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 03:34:59PM -0400, Christine Lemmer-Webber wrote: >> Very excited for FOSDEM / Guix Days 2024! Definitely think there's been >> plenty happening in Spritely-land that we'll have some things we want to >> get in front of people, and conversations ab

Re: ActtivityPub and Haunt

2023-10-02 Thread Munyoki Kilyungi
Christine Lemmer-Webber aliandika: > indieterminacy writes: > >> As can be imagined, some of these softwares have stacks which Guix is >> not so usually adept at packaging. > > As a side note, I suspect the major paint point of *all* of these > systems, which is the Javascript side for user-faci

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-10-02 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi Ricardo, On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 at 08:35, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Across the wider GNU system the command for accessing manuals is “info” > followed by the name of the manual, e.g. “info guix” or “info > guix-cookbook”. Yeah but for instance I barely use Info because I never remember how to nav

Re: is core-updates still a thing?

2023-10-02 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On Tue, 26 Sep 2023 at 12:28, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: >> My understanding is that feature-branches are now the canonical way to >> work on things, and core-updates has become just another kind of >> feature-branch for landing groups of large changes that don't really >> fit anywhere; the diff

Re: GUI for Guix

2023-10-02 Thread Adam Faiz
> The last message in that issue discussion is mine: >FWIW M-x guix-installed-packages (and all the other stuff) works for me > Is it *actually* broken? If it is and you can provide information on how to trigger the broken behavior we might be a step closer to fixing it. I assumed that M-x