From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs is not reproducible Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 15:45:29 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87lf8dcrcd.fsf@disroot.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1784"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Bone Baboon Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 17 17:46:24 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lifRo-0000Cv-9q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 17 May 2021 17:46:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49526 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lifRn-00040w-Cz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 17 May 2021 11:46:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49320) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lifR2-00033P-6C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2021 11:45:36 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:11329 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lifQz-0007E0-SJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2021 11:45:35 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 14004 invoked by uid 3782); 17 May 2021 15:45:29 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p4fe15a93.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.225.90.147]) (using STARTTLS) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Mon, 17 May 2021 17:45:29 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 4488 invoked by uid 1000); 17 May 2021 15:45:29 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87lf8dcrcd.fsf@disroot.org> X-Submission-Agent: TMDA/1.3.x (Ph3nix) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de Received-SPF: pass client-ip=193.149.48.1; envelope-from=acm@muc.de; helo=mail.muc.de X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:269410 Archived-At: Hello, Bone. On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 11:28:18 -0400, Bone Baboon wrote: > I am using the Guix operating system. It provides tools to verify if > a software package is reproducible. What does it even mean to say a software package is "reproducible"? > > For details on how Emacs 27.2 is not reproducible see > . Previous versions of > Emacs are also not reproducible as reported in that thread. > For information on why reproducible software is important see > . > For information on how to make software reproducible see > . > Is there currently any work underway to make Emacs reproducible? Without knowing what it means, I can't really say, but I suspect not. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).