Re: [GSoC] Package management from Emacs

2014-03-06 Thread Xue Fuqiao
In Package Menu mode, `r' will download the archive contents again, whereas `g' only rebuilds the tabulated list of packages that have been downloaded previously. So we can use `r' (guix pull) to check if there is any updated packages, and use `g' for example to revert the install/delete marks in

Re: [GSoC] Package management from Emacs

2014-03-05 Thread Xue Fuqiao
Hi Ludovic, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: The command `guix-describe-package' (I haven't come up with a good key binding yet) can prompt for the name of a package, and display a help buffer describing the package. The buffer includes the name, version, source, dependencies, home

Re: [GSoC] Package management from Emacs

2014-03-05 Thread Xue Fuqiao
Grim Schjetne g...@schjetne.se writes: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Xue Fuqiao x...@gnu.org skribis: `r' Refresh the package list (`guix-refresh'). This recomputes the package list. Perhaps there should be something that runs ‘guix pull’ too (it’s like ‘apt-get

Re: About GSoC 2014

2014-03-04 Thread Xue Fuqiao
Hi Ludovic, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Are you applying for other projects as well for this year? I'm also interested in the emacs-xwidget project, but my to be honest, my C level isn't high. I'm not sure if I'm competent at that job. Please familiarize yourself with the tools,

About GSoC 2014

2014-03-02 Thread Xue Fuqiao
Hi list, Having used Emacs for 4 years, I am a Chinese student and an Emacs developer. I'd like to work on Guix under the GNU umbrella for GSoC 2014, especially this project: * Package management from Emacs The goal of this project is to write a complete package management user