Video of the interview with #guix founder @civodul is available. A great chat about the #nix deployment model, his interested in #guile and #free software. Lots of interesting chat about motivation in #freesoftware, #gnu and #linux - as well as the Plan9-ification of Guix!!
Many areas where you can help, with different time commitments and prerequisites: funding & spending, hardware hosting, system administration, and coding.
I just opened registration for the June iteration of the "Hands-On Guile Scheme for Beginners" course!
This is an 8-week course that is a mixture of on-demand learning content, live Q&A sessions, practical exercises, and a private forum where I answer all your questions.
This iteration officially begins on June 8th, full details and schedule can be found here:
In « Source Code Archiving to the Rescue of Reproducible Deployment » we describe the #GNU#Guix / @swheritage integration to ensure the reproducibility of scientific environments.
I wonder if there are any #guix maintainers willing to take a look at https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=70112 . I tried asking in #guix room few times, not much luck. There are already new versions available, and I would prefer not to rebase it (again), testing it is quite annoying due to differences between podman 4 and 5...
I ran an experiment yesterday, and found the package with the largest number of dependencies in #guix using this little command: guix package -A | awk '{print $1}' | parallel 'echo -n {}; echo -n " "; guix size {} 2>/dev/null | tail -n +3 | wc -l' | sort -n -k 2 | tee ~/Documents/sorted_packages.txt. The whole thing took 6 hours to run at about 90% CPU utilisation.
Result: pigx has the most dependencies at 968, with most of the runner ups being scientific analysis tools too. Cool!
Consider: #Guix / #Nix shared hosting where the cost of storing a store item is shared between the users that depend on it.
Maybe with the new Shepherd on Goblins integration a shared guix-daemon could work.
@mntmn, @daviwil
Do you guys see a way to have a reform next with #guix as pre-installed system? It would be awesome! But I wonder how is the #guix support on ARM... 🤔
Looking for some Friday #guix reading? How about the next step in the #packaging tutorial? Overview of the build-system concept, and how to provide arguments. We meet the #guile#scheme repl (guix repl) to discuss when to use 'quote' and 'quasiquote' in package definitions.