Re: extlinux and a bootloader system rewrite

2024-04-29 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2024-04-22, Lilah Tascheter wrote: > I've been working on a large bootloader subsystem rewrite to get > everything working together nicer and support future bootloaders > better. however, extlinux is being a bit of an issue. ... > does anyone use extlinux on guix still? would anyone mind if I

Guile CSE elimination of record accessor?

2024-04-29 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, In Guile module (ice-9 vlist), one reads: --8<---cut here---start->8--- ;; Asserting that something is a vlist is actually a win if your next ;; step is to call record accessors, because that causes CSE to ;; eliminate the type checks in those accessors.

Re: Managing patches and branches, retrospective and futher changes?

2024-04-29 Thread Christopher Baines
Andreas Enge writes: > Hello, > > Am Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 02:21:56PM +0100 schrieb Christopher Baines: >> Let me know if you have any thoughts or questions! > > in this part: > +@item > +Minimise the changes on master that are missing on the branch prior to > +merging the branch in to master.

Hackathon: fix build errors on the "master" branch.

2024-04-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Guix, for the past weeks the "master" branch has been in pretty poor state according to ci.guix.gnu.org. It keeps hovering at around 56% progress, which is a far cry from the 80+% we used to have in the old days. A lot of packages are in fact broken. Many more are marked as broken due to a

Re: Vim helper config for Guix

2024-04-29 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Efraim, Am Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 09:43:02AM +0300 schrieb Efraim Flashner: > Most of the line indentation works pretty well. Vim, by default for lisp > languages, hardcodes an indent as 2 spaces, and I haven't gotten around > to learning how to write an indentexpr to make it work for guix.

Re: Change logs: usage of square brackets

2024-04-29 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 11:10:14AM +0500 schrieb Nigko Yerden: > I wonder what is the proper usage of square brackets in change logs. > According to https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Change-Logs > square brackets are used for conditional changes, the name of the condition > is

Re: Managing patches and branches, retrospective and futher changes?

2024-04-29 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 02:21:56PM +0100 schrieb Christopher Baines: > Let me know if you have any thoughts or questions! in this part: +@item +Minimise the changes on master that are missing on the branch prior to +merging the branch in to master. Merging master in to the branch can be