Re: February hybrid Guix London meetup

2024-02-18 Thread Arun Isaac
Hi all, Just a quick reminder for the February hybrid Guix London meetup later today. See you soon! > Hi all, > > The next Guix London meetup is scheduled for Monday 19th February, 6 pm > London time (i.e. UTC) onward. Join us in person or online. Address and > link are below. > > - In person,

NPM packaging questions

2024-02-18 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi! I'm currently delving in the subject of node packaging, I have a few ideas that I might be interested in sending patches for, but I need some input before. 1) IIRC, most build-systems (except cargo at least) will not fail if some native-inputs are not present. They will fail if they are ind

Re: Introducing Guix "Features"! (Was: Syntactic Diabetes)

2024-02-18 Thread Edouard Klein
Weighting in here, as small as my weight may be: - re-using 'service' is IMHO a bad idea, it is a loaded term and the expectation of a new reader is that a service is a SysV-init service: it can be started, status-ed, stopped, restarted, and that's it. It maps to a daemon running in the back

Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual

2024-02-18 Thread Josselin Poiret
Hi Matt, Matt writes: > The explanation of "a self-contained tarball providing binaries for Guix and > for all its dependencies" was reduced to the simpler "archived binaries." > Generally, "tarball" is imprecise, hence the need to explain what it contains > in this context. Further, it's j

Re: Core-updates coordination and plans

2024-02-18 Thread Josselin Poiret
Hi again everyone, Thanks for the feedback! So in the meantime I chose to go ahead and try with 2.39 (how hard could it be?). The main visible change for us in 2.39 is the removal of the crypt library, with a replacement being the external libxcrypt. This wasn't too bad to fix in most places, y

Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual

2024-02-18 Thread Matt
Friendly bump. Awaiting feedback or guidance.

Re: [Cuirass] JavaScript work

2024-02-18 Thread Janneke Nieuwenhuizen
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > I noticed that Cuirass bundles minified JavaScript. I’ve started a new > branch that replaces the minified JavaScript with readable source code > and minifies the files as part of the build. Yay for that. I'm wondering though what the net gain of minification is with cu