Re: Handling expensive packages

2024-03-12 Thread Peter Polidoro
You can ignore or delete this patch if it is causing problems. If I remember correctly, that was a patch I submitted a couple of years ago when I was attempting to package some embedded software tools, either the zephyr west tool or platformio, both written in python. That sent me down the rabb

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-09-26 Thread Peter Polidoro
On Tue, 26 Sept 2023 at 11:55, Attila Lendvai wrote: if Guix is using a rolling release model, then maybe it's not an unreasonable expectation that the online manual also follows the latest in the git repo, no? maybe we should stop prefixing devel/, and start prefixing the releases? W

Re: Thank you for using Emacs

2023-09-18 Thread Peter Polidoro
MSavoritias writes: What i meant more was: - Offer an alternative to Emacs. - Specify a distro like doom Emacs that comes with better defaults. I would maybe lean towards the second one i here fyi. I agree it would be nice to introduce people to lisp modifiable editors :D I would lea

Thank you for using Emacs

2023-09-18 Thread Peter Polidoro
MSavoritias writes: I go to the manual to learn package management, https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Package-Management Apparently i have to either use the terminal or something called emacs. If I follow the guide located here: https://emacs-guix.gitlab.io/website/manual

Packaging Con

2023-06-13 Thread Peter Polidoro
Any Guix talks planned for Packaging Con? https://cfp.packaging-con.org/2023/cfp

Re: bug#61894: [PATCH RFC] Team approval for patches

2023-03-13 Thread Peter Polidoro
There is a phenomenon in manufacturing quality control where sometimes adding inspectors decreases the number of defects that get past inspection unnoticed, because one inspector catches a defect that another inspector missed, but other times the number of unnoticed defects actually goes UP, pr

Re: Oniro or Guix on Zephyr kernel?

2023-02-25 Thread Peter Polidoro
> https://github.com/guix-zephyr I actually reserved this organization name on GitHub a while back hoping to someday do what you already did. I am happy to add you to it or transfer it over to you entirely if you want. I am looking forward to reading the details of what you did, thanks!

Re: Oniro or Guix on Zephyr kernel?

2023-02-25 Thread Peter Polidoro
Thank you for all of your great work on packaging the Zephyr SDK for Guix! I had the same feelings about West and its approach to handling dependencies. PlatformIO has a similar issue where parts of it are very useful, but it would be great to be able use Guix to manage firmware libraries instea

Re: Oniro or Guix on Zephyr kernel?

2023-02-24 Thread Peter Polidoro
Actually, my new friend Mitchell just created a blog post about using GNU Guix for Zephyr kernels: https://gnucode.me/building-toolchains-with-guix.html Great blog post, thank you! It makes me a little hesitant about Zephyr if they have just given up on other people building their SDK, bu

Oniro or Guix on Zephyr kernel?

2023-02-23 Thread Peter Polidoro
I just stumbled across Oniro[1], the Eclipse Foundation's new operating system. It seems that its main goal is to be able to run a common operating system on multiple embedded kernels, either the Linux kernel for larger devices or the Zephyr kernel for smaller ones. Since Guix System can run