Re: Package page

2016-11-11 Thread David Pirotte
Hi, > Personally I'm in favor of erasing the /packages page (until we > have an improved alternative), no one likes pages which kill your > browser process FWIW, I still have a [very] low internet band, I'm using epiphany, and it loads the page in less then a second here. I personnaly think it

Re: Guile debugger workgroup?

2022-11-27 Thread David Pirotte
Hello Attila, > coming from common lisp (and SBCL in particular), i think the lowest > hanging fruit in the guile debugging experience is making sure that > backtraces are not cut short when printed. Not 'by default' though, I would personally vote against such a change [1]. Did you try, after t

Re: Guile debugger workgroup?

2022-11-27 Thread David Pirotte
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Re: adding motif to guix

2023-01-09 Thread David Pirotte
> ... > Thanks for the clarification. My interest in this package is because > openmotif is the best of the X window managers that do not suffer from > a rather infamous and longstanding GTK bug which will bring down > Emacs. Fwiw, debian has an 'emacs-lucid' package (maintained by the debian gui

Re: Shepherd release!

2018-03-16 Thread David Pirotte
Hello, Though I don't use neither contribute to shepherd, nor guix, guixsd either, I got curious, because the error message did trigger a bell, so I went on and visited the source code and here is my few cents :) > I am already failing in getting the shepherd configured. On a fresh git > checko

Re: Treating tests as special case

2018-04-06 Thread David Pirotte
Hello, > > An idea that came up on #guix several months ago was to separate the > > building of packages from testing. Testing would be a continuation of > > the build, like grafts could be envisioned as a continuation of the > > build. > What problems would that solve? If one can run tests s

Re: [PATCH] Fix & update guile-lib to 0.2.5

2017-03-07 Thread David Pirotte
Hi, > > Running test suite: -suite --- > > Running test case: test-util-equivalent-to-class > > Running test case: test-fill-equivalent-to-joined-lines > > Running test case: test-no-collapse-ws > > Running test case: test-no-word-break > > test-util-equivalent-to-class: except

Re: potluck status

2017-04-28 Thread David Pirotte
Le Fri, 28 Apr 2017 11:46:43 -0500, Christopher Allan Webber a écrit : > Andy Wingo writes: > > > On Fri 28 Apr 2017 14:42, Hartmut Goebel > > writes: > > > >> Am 28.04.2017 um 14:05 schrieb Andy Wingo: > >>> 5.15 Invoking ‘guix potluck’ > >> > >> Please think about an other name for t

Re: Creating a reliable bootstrap for building from source

2017-05-14 Thread David Pirotte
Heya, > As a user I want something like ‘apt-get update’, which is what ‘guix > pull’ tries to do. For end-users, cool stuff would be: nguix [ guix-ncurse u [ update the aptitude cached list of all packages, [ installed or not... just pack

Re: Release!

2017-10-06 Thread David Pirotte
Hi Recardo, Hi Ludo, > >> • Merge the potluck! > About that… We now have a JSON importer, so maybe it’s worth using the > even simpler JSON package format instead of the simplified S-expression > format that Andy proposed. What do you think? Should we discuss t

Re: Release!

2017-10-07 Thread David Pirotte
Hello Hartmut, > > so why would we 'abandon' s-exp, what would we win here? > It might be interesting to *create* these files using tools written in > other programming languages. And modules for creating *JSON* are > available for most programming languages. But that would be another tool, an

Re: G-golf

2018-01-14 Thread David Pirotte
Hi, > (define %libgirepository (dynamic-link "libgirepository-1.0")) > In procedure dynamic-link: file: "libgirepository-1.0", message: "file not > found" > but both Gobect-introspection and Glib are in the ad-hoc environment > (they were found by configure) You can try to run ldd: ldd

Re: G-golf

2018-01-14 Thread David Pirotte
> > > (define %libgirepository (dynamic-link "libgirepository-1.0")) > > > In procedure dynamic-link: file: "libgirepository-1.0", message: "file > > > not > > > found" > > > but both Gobect-introspection and Glib are in the ad-hoc environment > > > (they were found by configure) > >

Re: Improving Shepherd

2018-02-09 Thread David Pirotte
Hello, > Yes, inotify (ISTR there *are* inotify bindings for Guile somewhere.) https://github.com/ChaosEternal/guile-inotify2.git David pgpnCYHkf8eet.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: The way to promote GUIX package manager

2022-01-27 Thread David Pirotte
> ... > What does "apt search guix" produce? > (Nothing, on the puri.sm variant of debian. They maintain a custom > pool based on debian minus what they want to exclude AIUI) fwiw, https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=guix&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all pgpFnGcqMI6R8.pgp Desc

Re: GNU Guix 1.0.0 released

2019-05-03 Thread David Pirotte
Heya, Le Thu, 02 May 2019 17:27:15 -0400, Christopher Lemmer Webber a écrit : > Ludovic Courtès writes: > > We are thrilled to announce the release of GNU Guix 1.0.0! > Massive congrats to the whole Guix community! Woohoo :) Joining the clapping crowd! Guix and Guix Syetem not only are t

Re: [PATCH] gnu: octave: Update to 4.0.2.

2016-05-18 Thread David Pirotte
Hello, > Small update for GNU Octave. Hopefully in the future we can include the > GUI. I'm not a guix developer, neither a guix user yet, but I follow #guix and this list, to get prepared :) and read good advice and good guile scheme techniques... So, starting with vers

Re: [PATCH] gnu: octave: Update to 4.0.2.

2016-05-18 Thread David Pirotte
Hi Efraim, > What toolchain do they use to build the GUI? There isn't anything listed > in the inputs like gtk+-2 (as seems standard for GNU projects). Qt4 Here, for info, you may check the debian's stretch [debian testing] Octave 4.0.2-1 package dependencies: https://packages.debian.o

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add guile-gnome

2016-06-07 Thread David Pirotte
Hello, Le Tue, 07 Jun 2016 13:57:19 -0400, Patrick Hetu a écrit : > Ludovic Courtès @ 2016-05-28 12:06 EDT: > > > Pushed as 9b381643f009025d97dfc0b82d2c00800c204380 with a few minor > > changes: > > > >> +(define-public guile-g-wrap > > > > This one is already available in (gnu packages gui

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add guile-gnome

2016-06-08 Thread David Pirotte
Hello Patrick, > ... > +(modify-phases %standard-phases > + (add-before 'configure 'pre-configure > + (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys) > + (let ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out"))) > + (substitute* (find-files "." "^Makefile.

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add guile-gnome

2016-06-09 Thread David Pirotte
> > > ... > > > +(modify-phases %standard-phases > > > + (add-before 'configure 'pre-configure > > > + (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys) > > > + (let ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out"))) > > > + (substitute* (find-files "." "^

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add guile-gnome

2016-06-11 Thread David Pirotte
Hi Alex, > >> > > ... > >> > > +(modify-phases %standard-phases > >> > > + (add-before 'configure 'pre-configure > >> > > + (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys) > >> > > + (let ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out"))) > >> > > + (sub