David Thompson <[email protected]> skribis: > From what I can tell, there is no official release tarball of Hydra. I > guess we'd have to settle for packaging a snapshot of the git repo?
Yes. > When trying to build Hydra, I get the error "configure: error: nix-store > is required". Do I need to have Nix installed, or is there a configure > flag I can pass to use Guix? Hydra requires Nix for its command-line interface and for its Perl bindings. But it uses only the low-level stuff (essentially what the (guix store) module provides), which is compatible between Nix and Guix. >> For the brave hacker, there’s also this option: >> >> 2b. Write a Hydra replacement in Scheme, probably building upon >> David’s neat guix-web. > > I wonder how difficult this would be. I haven't explored the full > feature set of Hydra, but I bet we have all the building blocks that we > need. It would be very interesting to explore this more. I think we’d rather think in terms of the features we need. The 3-process architecture described at <http://hydra.nixos.org/job/hydra/trunk/tarball/latest/download-by-type/doc/manual> under “Getting Started” should be mostly appropriate, I think. Thanks, Ludo’.
