Re: [Nix-dev] Call For Maintainers - Fractalide BETA release

2017-01-12 Thread Henry Mensching
I agree with zimbatm. I find the GUIX posts very topical and heavily geared towards my perceived notion of this mailing-list's mission (although I'm currently just lurking to hone my Nix). I admit that I have not looked into fractalide, which could very much be topical, however some form of guidel

Re: [Nix-dev] Call For Maintainers - Fractalide BETA release

2017-01-12 Thread zimbatm
Ironically I didn't get the original message but now have 10 more emails to read, not all of them super friendly. As far as I know there are no explicit rules for the mailing list so it's open for interpretation. If we want to set more rules then we need a document that we can refer people to, and

Re: [Nix-dev] Call For Maintainers - Fractalide BETA release

2017-01-12 Thread Moritz Ulrich
stewart mackenzie writes: > Reusable Functions - They're great, they're just great, you'll love them. Sneaky remarks like this are totally inappropriate here. Profpatsch asked nicely for a short pitch of your project, and you throw this completely useless sentence into his face. This isn't how

Re: [Nix-dev] Call For Maintainers - Fractalide BETA release

2017-01-12 Thread Herwig Hochleitner
2017-01-12 14:48 GMT+01:00 Peter Simons : > > please speak for yourself. I found Stewart's message both interesting > and relevant for this mailing list -- much more so than the trolling and > flaming that followed it. I did not respond simply because I had nothing > meaningful to say, so please d

Re: [Nix-dev] Call For Maintainers - Fractalide BETA release

2017-01-12 Thread stewart mackenzie
Reusable Functions - They're great, they're just great, you'll love them. ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

Re: [Nix-dev] Call For Maintainers - Fractalide BETA release

2017-01-12 Thread Profpatsch
On 17-01-12 09:16pm, stewart mackenzie wrote: > Reproducible functions adds a new vertical design space to Nix/NixOS, > it's pretty huge in my books, given that monolith apps can be combined > in only a certain amount of ways. Next came the reproducible > libraries, which can be combined into even

Re: [Nix-dev] Call For Maintainers - Fractalide BETA release

2017-01-12 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Herwig, > Profpatsch is actually being quite courteous by politely pointing out > that your message fails to be relevant to nix-dev, instead of > ignoring you, like the rest of us do. please speak for yourself. I found Stewart's message both interesting and relevant for this mailing list --

Re: [Nix-dev] Call For Maintainers - Fractalide BETA release

2017-01-12 Thread Moritz Ulrich
stewart mackenzie writes: > Nix's very existence revolves around solving an insanely hard problem, > that of reproducibility, it's the only project that actually gets it > right. > Reproducible monolith apps have _everything_ to do with Nix/NixOS > Reproducible libraries have _everything_ to do w

Re: [Nix-dev] Call For Maintainers - Fractalide BETA release

2017-01-12 Thread stewart mackenzie
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 8:46 PM, Herwig Hochleitner wrote: > ... Nix's very existence revolves around solving an insanely hard problem, that of reproducibility, it's the only project that actually gets it right. Reproducible monolith apps have _everything_ to do with Nix/NixOS Reproducible librar

Re: [Nix-dev] Call For Maintainers - Fractalide BETA release

2017-01-12 Thread Herwig Hochleitner
2017-01-12 13:20 GMT+01:00 stewart mackenzie : > > Reusable and reproducible functions have nothing to do with Nix/NixOS? > Not in particular with nix-dev, they don't. What about reproducible libraries? > Nope. > What about reproducible monolith apps? > No. Why not try posting about some has

Re: [Nix-dev] Call For Maintainers - Fractalide BETA release

2017-01-12 Thread stewart mackenzie
So let me understand this clearly. Reusable and reproducible functions have nothing to do with Nix/NixOS? What about reproducible libraries? What about reproducible monolith apps? This is a _new_ concept to the Nix/NixOS ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-de

Re: [Nix-dev] Call For Maintainers - Fractalide BETA release

2017-01-12 Thread Herwig Hochleitner
2017-01-12 12:08 GMT+01:00 stewart mackenzie : > On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Profpatsch wrote: > > Not sure what this has to do with nix-dev? > > tough crowd, tough crowd. > Hi Stewart, Profpatsch is actually being quite courteous by politely pointing out that your message fails to be rele

Re: [Nix-dev] Call For Maintainers - Fractalide BETA release

2017-01-12 Thread stewart mackenzie
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Profpatsch wrote: > Not sure what this has to do with nix-dev? tough crowd, tough crowd. ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

Re: [Nix-dev] Call For Maintainers - Fractalide BETA release

2017-01-12 Thread Profpatsch
On 17-01-11 11:34pm, stewart mackenzie wrote: > Greetings all, Not sure what this has to do with nix-dev? -- Proudly written in Mutt with Vim on NixOS. Q: Why is this email five sentences or less? A: http://five.sentenc.es May take up to five days to read your message. If it’s urgent, call me. _

[Nix-dev] Call For Maintainers - Fractalide BETA release

2017-01-11 Thread stewart mackenzie
Greetings all, So after some 946 commits a number of rewrites starting in 2014 when Fractalide was implemented in a neat programming language called Mozart Oz, we've gone BETA. At that stage Fractalide was the subject of a Master thesis for Denis Michiels under Professor Peter Van Roy of UCL Belgi