Andreas Enge <[email protected]> skribis: > So here is my suggestion for the GHM:
Looks great to me! (And fewer buzzwords than mine. ;-)) > GNU Guix: Package without a scheme! > > One of the seducing features of the GNU Guix distribution is that the I try to call it either the “GNU distribution” or the “GNU system”. > package management system as well as the package descriptions themselves > are written in Guile, the GNU implementation of the Scheme language. But “one of GNU’s implementations of”, or “GNU’s core implementation of”, just not to offend our MIT/Kawa/SCM friends. > what if you do not know Scheme? Then you can still contribute by packaging > your favourite GNU and other free software, and maybe learn a bit of “free software packages”? > beautiful functional programming en passant. > > This talk gives an overview of what is already packaged in GNU Guix, > demonstrates the creation of a new package and asks the audience to come up > with schemes of what to package for the next releases. > > > I could give a talk of my own (two talks will give more weight to Guix!), > but will probably not need 45 minutes; rather 30. > > Then I think we should have a tutorial session, where every GHM participant > packages their favourite piece of software ;-) Yes, that’d be great! An install party coupled with a hack fest. :-) Ludo’.
