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Subject: Re: Guix paper
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:59:30 +0200
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) skribis:

> I submitted (just in time!) a paper about Guix for ELS 2013 [1].
>
>   http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/tmp/guix-els2013-submitted.pdf

I=E2=80=99m happy to say that the paper was accepted.  :-)

I don=E2=80=99t think I can quote the review, so I=E2=80=99ll paraphrase.  =
On the
positive side, it says the paper is =E2=80=9Ceasy to read=E2=80=9D, that it=
=E2=80=99s an
interesting topic that applies functional programming to =E2=80=9Creal life=
=E2=80=9D,
and that the motivations (providing a Scheme API & environment) are
clearly stated.

On the negative side, it notes that the examples are not always
convincing, such as the auto-updater.  The reviewer also considered that
illustrations of how to customize =E2=80=98gnu-build-system=E2=80=99 were l=
acking.

The role of the Nix daemon, and its connection with Guix was considered
unclear.  The reviewer did not understand how dependencies can be
expressed.

I=E2=80=99ll address these comments for the final version, which is due for=
 next
month.

Ludo=E2=80=99.