Announcing the first online Guix Day Conference

2020-10-19 Thread Julien Lepiller
Hello guixers! We are pleased to announce the first online Guix Day Conference on Sunday November, 22nd. This conference is open to everyone and will be held entirely online. No registration fee. Important dates: + November 6th: Deadline for talk proposals + November 14th: Deadline for

Re: Update on the timeline for the release v1.2.

2020-10-19 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le 19 octobre 2020 15:27:01 GMT-04:00, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" a écrit : >Thank you zimoun for managing all this! About the string freeze: > >On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 08:26:31PM +0200, Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas >wrote: >> zimoun writes: >> > The proposed coming timeline is: >> > >> > -

Re: Using #true and #false everywhere?

2020-10-19 Thread zimoun
Dear, On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 at 03:36, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > > Maxim Cournoyer 写道: > >> I'd only agree to such a change if it's already been standardized in > >> the > >> RnRS as such > > > > Sure, I think that's implied. #true and #false are part of the > >

Re: Update on the timeline for the release v1.2.

2020-10-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Thank you zimoun for managing all this! About the string freeze: On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 08:26:31PM +0200, Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas wrote: > zimoun writes: > > The proposed coming timeline is: > > > > - freeze starting the Oct. 26th > > - last round for testing all over the week > > -

Re: Update on the timeline for the release v1.2.

2020-10-19 Thread Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
Hi Simon, Wow, we're almost there! :-) Just some comments inline. zimoun writes: > However, I am sorry, I have not been able to read what is happening on > the translation side --- aside French one ;-). How is the shape? Spanish translation for manual and program messages are almost ready

Re: Racket packages / build system

2020-10-19 Thread Bonface M. K.
Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: [...] >> Can I volunteer on this task? There's some work in >> my team done in Racket; and it would be of great >> interest to us to have a working Racket build >> system. I can set apart some time to work on >> this. I'd ask for alot of guidance/ review on

Re: Racket packages / build system

2020-10-19 Thread Dimos Dimakakos
> I looked at the email that Dimos sent to me (also the email I had was > apparently not the most recent email that they are using, corrected in > the addressing this time), and they had asked me if they should post it > to the mailing list, so I think that's consent to post it since they >

Re: Racket packages / build system

2020-10-19 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Bonface M. K. writes: > Christopher Lemmer Webber > writes: > >> Bonface M. K. writes: >> >>> Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: >>> Just a heads up that right now you *can* run Racket-on-Chez, but soon Racket-on-Chez will be the "default"... maybe it's a good idea to see how hard

Re: Release v1.2 and Translation

2020-10-19 Thread zimoun
Dear, On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 23:26, Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas wrote: > First of all, thanks. And second, to leave a clear statement about the > main point: I agree with your proposed time frame for the string freeze, > October 26th (freeze) to 29th (release). Hope that you noticed the slip.

Update on the timeline for the release v1.2.

2020-10-19 Thread zimoun
Dear, The date Nov. 6th seems a more reasonable target as a release date. >From what I am reading, - the tests of the installer are work ongoing - important packages updates are also ongoing (Julia, OCaml, ...) - fixes - manual typos and various improvement - staging is freezed

Re: Racket packages / build system

2020-10-19 Thread Bonface M. K.
Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: > Bonface M. K. writes: > >> Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: >> >>> Just a heads up that right now you *can* run Racket-on-Chez, but soon >>> Racket-on-Chez will be the "default"... maybe it's a good idea to see >>> how hard it will be to make a