Re: Internship on Improve the user experience for the "guix package" command line tool (Outreachy)

2018-03-21 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Vijayalakshmi, > I'm really sorry about the effort you had to put into this patch. I'll try > not to do it again. Oh, you misunderstood. This kind of reworking of patches is very normal. It happens all the time and is a normal part of patch review. Some of these problems, however, could ha

Re: Internship on Improve the user experience for the "guix package" command line tool (Outreachy)

2018-03-21 Thread Gábor Boskovits
2018-03-21 18:03 GMT+01:00 Vijayalakshmi Vedantham : > Thank you so much to everyone who replied. This project truly has the > kindest and most polite people. > > I wanted to know what kind of system most people work on. My ubuntu is > giving me Locale errors so I was thinking of creating a virtua

Re: Internship on Improve the user experience for the "guix package" command line tool (Outreachy)

2018-03-21 Thread Vijayalakshmi Vedantham
Thank you so much to everyone who replied. This project truly has the kindest and most polite people. I wanted to know what kind of system most people work on. My ubuntu is giving me Locale errors so I was thinking of creating a virtual environment and working on that. Do you think that will work

Re: Internship on Improve the user experience for the "guix package" command line tool (Outreachy)

2018-03-21 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 08:45:02PM +0530, Vijayalakshmi Vedantham wrote: > Hi, > > I'm really sorry about the effort you had to put into this patch. I'll try > not to do it again. > > I had to append “.zip” because Pypi didn’t have a “.tar.gz” file for the > > sources, so the uri > > field now is

Re: Internship on Improve the user experience for the "guix package" command line tool (Outreachy)

2018-03-20 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi Vijayalakshmi, welcome to Guix! On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:45:02 +0530 Vijayalakshmi Vedantham wrote: > Hi, > > I'm really sorry about the effort you had to put into this patch. > I'll try not to do it again. Seriously: I hope you are not discouraged by that. And I hope you do it again and ag

Re: Internship on Improve the user experience for the "guix package" command line tool (Outreachy)

2018-03-20 Thread Vijayalakshmi Vedantham
Hi, I'm really sorry about the effort you had to put into this patch. I'll try not to do it again. I had to append “.zip” because Pypi didn’t have a “.tar.gz” file for the > sources, so the uri > field now is: > >(pypi-uri "logwrap" version ".zip") > Did you do this because only .zip is avai

Re: Internship on Improve the user experience for the "guix package" command line tool (Outreachy)

2018-03-20 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Vijayalakshmi, > I created a patch file for the package definition of python-logwrap that > I'm including here. I'm a little unsure if my patch is right because my ./ > pre-inst-env.in guix build r-abbyyR fails with some error. Have you been able to build Guix already and try building the pac

Re: Internship on Improve the user experience for the "guix package" command line tool (Outreachy)

2018-03-19 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Vijayalakshmi, > I created a patch file for the package definition of python-logwrap that > I'm including here. I'm a little unsure if my patch is right because my ./ > pre-inst-env.in guix build r-abbyyR fails with some error. This looks like you haven’t actually built Guix. The “.in” files

Re: Internship on Improve the user experience for the "guix package" command line tool (Outreachy)

2018-03-19 Thread Vijayalakshmi Vedantham
Got it. CC-ing them. I created a patch file for the package definition of python-logwrap that I'm including here. I'm a little unsure if my patch is right because my ./ pre-inst-env.in guix build r-abbyyR fails with some error. Also, since we are going to be communicating regularly now, 1. I'd l