On Thursday, 15 February 2018 at 17:54:57 UTC, John Gabriele
wrote:
Are any other languages using Guix for their 3rd-party online
package repo? If not, why?
GNU Guile ;).
That's excellent. I remember years ago it looked like there was
action in getting a Guile package repo going but it never
panned out. Glad they found (and settled on) something! (Though
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/libraries/> doesn't say
anything about Guix, and I don't see anything about Guix in the
[Guile
manual](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/)).
The Guile maintainers effectively use Guix for handling the build
chain and dependencies.
See Andy Wingo's blog https://wingolog.org/ - section 'getting
the goods' he discusses Guile packaging and Guix. Andy is the
main compiler writer of Guile. The following is a bit out of
date, but you get the idea
https://wingolog.org/archives/2015/08/04/developing-v8-with-guix.
I'd love to see an overview article explaining how the pieces
would fit together. Would Guix work with Dub? If so, what
specifically (on GNU/Linux) would be required to make that
happen, and what would using such a solution look like in
practice?
I need to write a BLOG. After the Python one.
I don't yet know enough about D and Dub to even know what
giving Guix a shot would mean :). I'm on Debian and so use apt
for installing software. I'll have to spend some time with the
Guix (and Dub) docs.
I meant you can try Guix anyway. It will be a gain. I run Guix on
top of Debian myself. I am a real Debian fan - using Debian more
than 15 years. But when it comes to my development environment
and my software deployment I use Guix. Debian can not handle that
well enough.
