Re: New emacs-guix location

John Soo (2020-11-24 11:23 -0800) wrote: > Hello Alex and Guix, > > Hope you are well. Hello, I am fine, thanks! > I volunteered to maintain some version of > emacs-guix recently. How do you feel about a fork moving to Savannah? You (and all the Guix people) are free to do whatever you think

Re: Word order in Guix l10n

This specific syntax looks ok, but we need to limit ourself to the common syntax between guile and lisp, because that's what gettext supports. We should use this kind of syntax everywhere we have more than one argument. Also thinking about rtl languages, it's probably important for them, though

Re: wip-arm-bootstrap: Reduced binary seed bootstrap

Hello! Jan Nieuwenhuizen skribis: > I pushed an initial wip-arm-bootstrap that builds up to tcc-boot: > > ./pre-inst-env guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages commencement) tcc-boot)' > > > Danny did a terrific job on armhf-linux support for GNU Mes and we are > getting close to release v0.23.

Re: Word order in Guix l10n

Hi Ludo, Ludovic Courtès writes: > With (ice-9 format), as has been suggested before, we should be able to > do away with the “argument jumping” syntax (info "(guile) Formatted > Output"): > > (format #f "~1@*~d Zeichen lang ist die Zeichenkette `~0@*~a'" "ab" 2) > > It’s a bit awkward

Re: Word order in Guix l10n

Hi, Arun Isaac skribis: >> This looks like a real issue. I’m surprised this isn’t already >> addressed though: after all, ‘printf’ format strings have the same >> problem, right? How does everyone else deal with that? > > For C's printf format strings, gettext supports special syntax to >

Re: SJTUG's Guix mirror is online now

Hi, Peng Mei Yu skribis: > After extensive cooperation with SJTUG's maintainers, we are happy to > announce that SJTUG's Guix mirror is online now. > > The substitute URL is: https://mirrors.sjtug.sjtu.edu.cn/guix This is great news! > Asia residents, especially China residents, will greatly

Re: December 2020 (old) bugs squashing!

Hey ho! On Sat, 05 Dec 2020 at 16:26, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> In priority let pick bugs older than #3 (~Jan. 2018). >> >> >> >> From Debbugs, I count 151 bugs or forgotten patches, almost 3 years! >> Time to close them or investigate more. > >

Identical files across subsequent package revisions

Hello Guix! Every time a package changes, we end up downloading complete substitutes for itself and for all its dependents, even though we have the intuition that a large fraction of the files in those store items are unchanged. I wanted to evaluate that by looking at store items corresponding

Re: SJTUG's Guix mirror is online now

Hi, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Peng Mei Yu skribis: > >> After extensive cooperation with SJTUG's maintainers, we are happy to >> announce that SJTUG's Guix mirror is online now. >> >> The substitute URL is: https://mirrors.sjtug.sjtu.edu.cn/guix > > This is great news! > >> Asia residents,

Re: [PATCH] gnu: libffi: Add unreleased patch to fix float128 on powerpc64le.

"regular powerpc", ie macppc/ppc32/powerpc-linux-gnu, does have some bootstrap binaries built but isn't near ready for merging. Go ahead and make any changes necessary. -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be

Re: [PATCH] gnu: libffi: Add unreleased patch to fix float128 on powerpc64le.

Hi Mark, Mark H Weaver writes: > Earlier, I wrote: >> When invoking 'patch' in Guix, you should *always* use "--force" instead >> of "--batch". > > (See for my earlier message). Thank you for letting me know about this. I didn't know about the difference

Re: Staging branch

On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 12:58:46PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > The plan is to start building it next Friday, December 11. The staging branch is building: https://data.guix-patches.cbaines.net/repository/2/branch/staging/latest-processed-revision/package-substitute-availability It's moving a