From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Sassmannshausen Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user,gmane.comp.gnu.system,gmane.linux.distributions.nixos,gmane.comp.gnu.guix.bugs Subject: Re: GNU Guix 0.1 released (alpha) Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:48:34 +0000 Message-ID: <87y5fpb2ct.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87txqeswcv.fsf@inria.fr>,<87ehhiw2e2.fsf@atomx.deadlyhead.home> Reply-To: alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1358610527 30173 80.91.229.3 (19 Jan 2013 15:48:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:48:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org, nix-dev@cs.uu.nl, bug-guix@gnu.org To: "Atom X" Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 19 16:49:06 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@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 1TwafI-0000O6-S7 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:49:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57950 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Twaf2-00038O-2y for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:48:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55789) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Twaev-00038I-VF for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:48:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Twaeu-0001oi-GN for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:48:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-f175.google.com ([209.85.212.175]:54191) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Twaeu-0001m7-9F; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:48:40 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-wi0-f175.google.com with SMTP id hm11so6008770wib.2 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 07:48:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:from:to:cc:subject:references:user-agent:in-reply-to :reply-to:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=+d98WG32dy1N05d9/N91Q9/Tn1+Xyi6/rPEIH9QeTaw=; b=R6JPG/QjpoDl44R3SHrLS0FXVf0a/POE1JzjRRVfPY3PSQL2GKg3m6QZ2saGL7feh1 cDHtz0/iJdEAjg4B5U7ozUPENrbGS6c66MBOuCs3mHa6/8QcxtnmPxvhl/FQQdujLmVJ bfQXV3DRdkwcOmcuPWctYtiKqU01o9Ka6Gf8V+hOM6p4677I5xeTP08b5at1u//7zF84 8Ci6Wts21/1NiTvlDS4U2VGl3qjPsX9Y/jSiTtuXC/RyFhGSikGV7Lc8A59kBLJBo7g9 5J6XWRumYgb0FZ+d1ZZRiQHY5hQJz5SoTeTbOGNvYDi+D//m9aeZ3+U9NFHhIER3j4EJ dnig== X-Received: by 10.180.20.109 with SMTP id m13mr8527135wie.16.1358610517431; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 07:48:37 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from firefly (host86-176-48-50.range86-176.btcentralplus.com. [86.176.48.50]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t17sm9302247wiv.6.2013.01.19.07.48.35 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 19 Jan 2013 07:48:36 -0800 (PST) User-agent: mu4e 0.9.8.5; emacs 24.2.1 In-reply-to: <87ehhiw2e2.fsf@atomx.deadlyhead.home> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.212.175 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:9889 gmane.comp.gnu.system:116 gmane.linux.distributions.nixos:10174 gmane.comp.gnu.guix.bugs:492 Archived-At: Fantastic — congratulations. I might have to reschedule my prolonged Skyrim session planned for tomorrow in light of this… ~acs Atom X writes: > ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) 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 >> "350286bcf37a4035244cdddfe7bd62e79bcd08db0ed35b48e1444302dfc52005"))) >> (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–i.e., it’s 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