Hello! Chris Marusich <cmmarus...@gmail.com> skribis:
> On February 22nd, Nix 2.0 was released: > > https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ssec-relnotes-2.0 Very nice work. It looks like the CLI is closer to that of Guix now. :-) > It contains a lot of interesting new features. Are there any plans to > merge some of the nix-daemon changes into our guix-daemon? Why not? What did you have in mind? One thing we discussed long ago was the idea of keeping signatures in the store database, and I think Nix 2.0 does that. That’s something we could borrow. > Is compatibility with the nix-daemon a goal of the Guix project? I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not a worthy goal, as in, it would cost more than it’s worth. guix-daemon is already incompatible with nix-daemon on a few things, such as the “builtin:download” derivation builder. > Can we take inspiration from any of the non-daemon features and use > them in Guix? Definitely. > Conversely, is there anything we can upstream to Nix that they might > find useful? Changes in the daemon are pretty much the only thing we could upstream, and I used to do exactly that. At some point I decided to stop following closely upstream and allow ourselves to change the daemon as we see fit. As a result, you may find that not every change that we make to our nix/ directory is directly applicable to current Nix. I’m also hopeful that we can move to a Guile-based daemon in the future. Overall, I think Nix and Guix still have a lot to share, probably not in terms of code, but at least in terms of design, features, and ideas. The discussions with Eelco at the Guix Workshop demonstrated that! Ludo’.
