Re: Google Season of Docs 2024

2024-02-27 Thread Matt
On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:18:33 +0100 Adam McCartney wrote --- > > 2. Would one of you readers be interested by being technical writer? > > 3. Any for improving the documentation? I'm always interested in improving the Guix documentation. > I'm quite new to guix, so reading through

declarative partition and format with Guix (was Re: Guix System automated installation)

2024-02-27 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello Ian, Ian Eure writes: > Giovanni Biscuolo writes: [...] >> Please consider that a preseed file is very limited compared to >> a >> full-fledged operating-system declaration since the latter >> contains the >> declaration for *all* OS configuration, not just the installed >>

Re: Guix System automated installation

2024-02-27 Thread Ian Eure
Hi Giovanni, Giovanni Biscuolo writes: [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] Hello Ian, I'm a little late to this discussion, sorry. I'm adding guix-devel since it would be nice if some Guix developer have something to add on this matter, for this reason I'm leaving all previous messages intact

Migrate from p7zip to 7zip?

2024-02-27 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
I noticed Debian is switching to 7zip from p7zip... my guess is because 7zip is actively maintained, whereas p7zip does not appear to as actively maintained? I am not hugely opinionated on the matter, but figured it was worth mentioning, if anyone wanted to take a stab at it! live well,

Re: Core-updates coordination and plans

2024-02-27 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Andreas, On Tue, Feb 27 2024, Andreas Enge wrote: > a time-based approach sounds like a good idea How about the second Monday and Tuesday of every month? That is a slow time for contributors who have more time on weekends. > It might still be good to do it in a separate branch instead of >

Re: Guile-Git 0.6.0 released; looking for maintainers!

2024-02-27 Thread Attila Lendvai
> An idea might be to look into using nyacc’s ffi-helper to generate > struct definitions. over there in CL land i wrote an automatic FFI generator. it's now part of the main CL FFI lib: https://github.com/cffi/cffi/tree/master/src/c2ffi it is based on c2ffi: https://github.com/rpav/c2ffi

Re: Core-updates coordination and plans

2024-02-27 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2024-02-27, Andreas Enge wrote: > Am Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 07:26:57AM -0800 schrieb Felix Lechner: >> How about a 48-hour period every month in which commits are permitted >> even if they cause "world rebuilds"? >> We could pause the substitute builders during that period. It would get >> rid of

Re: Core-updates coordination and plans

2024-02-27 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Felix, Am Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 07:26:57AM -0800 schrieb Felix Lechner: > How about a 48-hour period every month in which commits are permitted > even if they cause "world rebuilds"? > We could pause the substitute builders during that period. It would get > rid of core-updates forever. a

Re: Experience using the Nix service as a novice user

2024-02-27 Thread Christian Miller
Hi Carlo, sorry for the late reply. Thanks for creating a patch to update the documentation. I created a new virtual machine and followed the new documentation. It does work flawlessly. I'd suggest including the command on how to install packages as the last chapter. When I first explored Nix,

Re: rust-team branch merged

2024-02-27 Thread Jason Conroy
Hello Efraim, Thanks for investigating this - a Rust development workflow using only Guix-native crates is something I've been waiting for! I was experimenting with your patches and it seems that they do pull in the source crates for requested packages, but not their dependencies (example

Guile-Git 0.6.0 released; looking for maintainers!

2024-02-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! I’m glad to announce that Guile-Git 0.6.0 has been released, fixing longstanding issues and adding support for newer libgit2 versions! https://gitlab.com/guile-git/guile-git/ See ‘NEWS’ file excerpt below. Incidentally, Guile-Git needs your help! The initial driving force behind the