From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Atom X Newsgroups: gmane.comp.gnu.guix.bugs,gmane.comp.gnu.system,gmane.lisp.guile.user,gmane.linux.distributions.nixos Subject: Re: GNU Guix 0.1 released (alpha) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:29:57 -0800 Message-ID: <87ehhiw2e2.fsf@atomx.deadlyhead.home> References: <87txqeswcv.fsf@inria.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1358548204 17213 80.91.229.3 (18 Jan 2013 22:30:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:30:04 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-guix@gnu.org, gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org, nix-dev@cs.uu.nl Original-X-From: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 18 23:30:22 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcggb-bug-guix@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TwKS5-0006JY-OK for gcggb-bug-guix@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:30:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40291 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TwKRo-0003VG-QV for gcggb-bug-guix@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:30:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53241) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TwKRl-0003Te-1E for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:30:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TwKRj-0007GO-Tt for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:30:00 -0500 Original-Received: from caibbdcaaaaf.dreamhost.com ([208.113.200.5]:58323 helo=homiemail-a46.g.dreamhost.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TwKRj-0007GE-Ko; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:29:59 -0500 Original-Received: from homiemail-a46.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a46.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17AA73E4070; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:29:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=deadlyhead.com; h=from:to :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=deadlyhead.com; bh=jY lsI1H9+xGCYc/TeuYBU2cnuQ8=; b=KOfjcln4I1leyj9p2rlaIZyUP6imprpx+N 06MLwC1DZwVRZZwvyw9qNdUb/wmVNpO0QqeMqM8gt0Lrev52wcAePUgmO8SMN3HC uIsPZ0KDLl+R7ryrh+fK88K1UuqwZodvDN4Atax19kjNW5LTL9YdL3dnWFOgbAji 1ER2RxFOY= Original-Received: from atomx.deadlyhead.home.deadlyhead.com (cpe-75-83-60-98.socal.res.rr.com [75.83.60.98]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: atom@deadlyhead.com) by homiemail-a46.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D89653E405B; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:29:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87txqeswcv.fsf@inria.fr> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?'s\?\= message of "Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:13:42 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows NT kernel [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 208.113.200.5 X-BeenThere: bug-guix@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.gnu.guix.bugs:477 gmane.comp.gnu.system:115 gmane.lisp.guile.user:9883 gmane.linux.distributions.nixos:10171 Archived-At: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: > ;; Announcement. -*- scheme -*- > > (define guix > (package > (name "guix") > (version "0.1") ; first alpha release > (source > (origin > (method url-fetch) > (uri "ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.1.tar.gz") > (signature "ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.1.tar.gz.sig") > (sha256 > "350286bcf37a4035244cdddfe7bd62e79bcd08db0ed35b48e1444302dfc5200= 5"))) > (license gpl3+) > (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/") > (synopsis "Functional package management for GNU") > (description > "GNU Guix is a functional package manager and associated free > software distribution of the GNU system. > > In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports > transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, > per-user profiles, and garbage collection (more details in the manual.) > Guix uses mechanisms from the Nix package management tool, with a Guile > Scheme programming interface. > > Guix comes with a small (~150 packages) and growing user-land software > distribution=E2=80=93i.e., it=E2=80=99s not a bootable distribution yet, = but rather one > to be installed on top of a running GNU/Linux system. It includes > GNU libc 2.17, GCC 4.7.2, GNU Emacs 24.2, GNU Guile 2.0.7, and many more! > > The distribution with this release is available on i686 and x86_64 > Linux-based systems. It features source-based deployment only; > bootstrapping the distribution requires ~5 GiB of disk space. > > See the ROADMAP and TODO files for future directions. Building the > distribution is a cooperative effort, and you are invited to join!"))) > > ;; Ludovic, on behalf of the Guix team. I cannot begin to express just how excited I am about this, and not just because it's an awesome project using Guile. Thank you, Ludo'. I'm fetching it now. -- Atom X