Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> skribis:

> On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 03:33:50PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Good to see you’re running your own service!
>
> It is used for GeneNetwork - a complex web service. It uses git for
> byte-identical installs and a Guix server for distributing the
> binaries. This is my current way to making sure everyone is running
> the exact same software tree and get binary installs.
>
> The installation notes are here:
>
>   
> https://github.com/pjotrp/genenetwork2/blob/paper/doc/README.org#quick-installation-recipe

Nice!  One limitation that may be a problem for you is that ‘guix
publish’ doesn’t yet compress the archives it serves.

> It is not as easy as 'guix package -i genenetwork2'. But then, it
> works (TM). People are installing it this way.

Is there anything particular preventing you from writing a genenetwork2
package?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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