Re: Use guix to distribute data & reproducible (data) science

2018-02-18 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Amirouche Boubekki writes: > Then, in a follow up mail, you reply to Konrad: > >>> Konrad Hinsen skribis: >> >> [...] >> >>> It would be nice if big datasets could conceptually be handled in the >>> same way while being stored elsewhere - a

About guix system init

2018-02-18 Thread rennes
Hello, I am currently running 'guix system init doc/os-config-hurd.scm /guix' on Debian/Hurd; Some of the things that I have observed: * Only the directories '/gnu/store' and 'var' are populated. * The directories: bin, etc, home, mnt, root, run and tmp are created but without

Re: core-updates: merged

2018-02-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > core-updates has been merged. > > Thanks to everyone who helped in making this happen! Woohoo, indeed! For the record, some of the goodies there: • glibc 2.26+ (almost 2.27!), coreutils 8.28, guile 2.2.3, util-linux 2.31, etc.

Re: Use guix to distribute data & reproducible (data) science

2018-02-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Amirouche, Amirouche Boubekki skribis: > On 2018-02-09 18:13, ludovic.cour...@inria.fr wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Amirouche Boubekki skribis: >> >>> tl;dr: Distribution of data and software seems similar. >>>Data is more and more important

Re: Java updates

2018-02-18 Thread Gábor Boskovits
2018-02-18 14:19 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Wurmus : > Hello Guix, > > now that core-updates has been merged it is a good time to revisit the > changes to our Java packages. We wanted to switch to icedtea-8 as the > default. > > Does anyone know what the status of this changeset is?

Re: core-updates, last call?

2018-02-18 Thread Pjotr Prins
I fixed ldc. Would like it to go into core updates... It is not such a critical package. But still. On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 12:16:09AM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Leo Famulari writes: > > > On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 03:00:59PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: > >> Ricardo

Re: How to notice when my change breaks something

2018-02-18 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi Mark, On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 17:35:43 -0500 Mark H Weaver wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Chris Marusich writes: > > > How do you notice when a change breaks something else? You so > > frequently notice these things, it almost seems like you're > > omniscient!

Re: heads-up: Haskell updates

2018-02-18 Thread Chris Marusich
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Andreas Enge writes: > >> Hello Ricardo, >> >> On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 02:04:31PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >>> I’ve built ghc-resourcet successfully with this change. I’d be happy if >>> those of you who reported build failures

core-updates: merged

2018-02-18 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Guix, core-updates has been merged. Thanks to everyone who helped in making this happen! -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net

Re: How to notice when my change breaks something

2018-02-18 Thread Chris Marusich
Mark H Weaver writes: > Hi Chris, > > Chris Marusich writes: > >> How do you notice when a change breaks something else? You so >> frequently notice these things, it almost seems like you're omniscient! >> >> Do you have an automated mechanism for doing

New French PO file for 'guix-packages' (version 0.14.0)

2018-02-18 Thread Translation Project Robot
Hello, gentle maintainer. This is a message from the Translation Project robot. A revised PO file for textual domain 'guix-packages' has been submitted by the French team of translators. The file is available at: http://translationproject.org/latest/guix-packages/fr.po (We can arrange

Re: Talk about Guix and GuixSD at FSF Hungary

2018-02-18 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Gábor, > On february the 20. at 18:00 local time I will give a talk about Guix and > GuixSD for the Hungarian FSF community. That’s great! > I based the style of my talk on one given by Ludo. I Left the copyright > notices intact, only adding my name. I hope this is the right thing to do, >

Java updates

2018-02-18 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hello Guix, now that core-updates has been merged it is a good time to revisit the changes to our Java packages. We wanted to switch to icedtea-8 as the default. Does anyone know what the status of this changeset is? We should push this to a branch on Savannah after rebasing it and then build

Re: Guix to participate in the Google Summer of Code

2018-02-18 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Alex, > I want to be a student this year since this will be my final chance (I > am graduating this year). I look at the libreplanet page and I think > only the build daemon project is suitable for me since I don't have > knowledge in networking. Is it possible for me to work on last-year >