From: Dmitry Alexandrov <dag@gnui.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: No Guile on Windows?
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 20:47:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eep0st3v.dag@gnui.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878sf9812f.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:00:56 +0200")
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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> skribis:
>> <rant> Sadly, Guile seems to care only about one OS: GNU/Linux
> my understanding is that Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has the potential to make all of us happy.
Itʼs the most disappointing thing to hear from a Guile maintainer.
> For example, here’s info from someone who got Guix to run on Windows/WSL2:
Contrary to WSL1, which was rather a misnomer for an alternative ABI-compatible implementation of Linux® on top of Windowsʼ kernel, WSL2 fully justifies its name: itʼs subsystem _for_ running Linux in it.
In other words, what youʼve just said is: Guile does not need to support Windows, because you can always run GNU/Linux in a virtual machine.
Iʼm afraid, such an attitude, if Guile is staking claim for being something more than a DSL for defining distro packages, is a decade premature at best.
> Running Guile alone should be easier. Notably, I would expect a bundle created with ‘guix pack guile’ to Just Work on Windows.
>
> Does anyone have experience with that?
I do not, but do not see any reason why it should not. If Guix pack would fail to run on Ubuntu, because it is running on emulated hardware, it would mean that Guix is really broken. And we know, that itʼs not.
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-23 6:18 My Guile Hacker Handbook Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski
2020-07-23 6:46 ` test anything? (Re: My Guile Hacker Handbook) Marc Chantreux
2020-07-23 8:12 ` Frank Terbeck
2020-07-23 10:40 ` Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski
2020-07-23 12:01 ` Marc Chantreux
2020-07-23 14:08 ` Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski
2020-07-23 19:55 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2020-07-23 11:33 ` Marc Chantreux
2020-07-23 15:08 ` a French mailing list (was: test anything? (Re: My Guile Hacker Handbook)) Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-07-23 20:34 ` Marc Chantreux
2020-07-23 10:32 ` My Guile Hacker Handbook Bonface M. K.
2020-07-23 14:09 ` Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski
2020-07-24 0:58 ` Bonface M. K.
2020-07-24 0:06 ` No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook) Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-07-24 5:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-24 7:22 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-07-24 9:32 ` Christopher Lam
2020-07-24 11:50 ` Mike Gran
2020-07-24 16:25 ` Licensing of Cygwin comatibility layer (was: No Guile on Windows?) Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-07-24 23:33 ` Mike Gran
2020-07-24 14:00 ` No Guile on Windows? Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-24 14:20 ` Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2020-07-24 17:46 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-07-24 17:47 ` Dmitry Alexandrov [this message]
2020-07-24 18:41 ` Jan Wielkiewicz
2020-07-25 3:48 ` No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook) David Pirotte
2020-07-25 6:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-25 13:56 ` Christopher Lam
2020-07-25 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-28 2:52 ` Christopher Lam
2020-07-28 3:57 ` Mike Gran
2020-07-28 6:40 ` Vladimir Zhbanov
2020-07-25 16:49 ` Mike Gran
2020-07-25 16:33 ` Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski
2020-07-25 21:38 ` No Guile on Windows? Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-07-24 6:47 ` No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook) divoplade
2020-07-24 11:38 ` Stefan Israelsson Tampe
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2020-08-13 13:02 Pikachu Hy via General Guile related discussions
2020-08-13 17:36 ` Linus Björnstam
2020-08-29 9:59 ` No Guile on Windows? Ludovic Courtès
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