From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Atom X 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: 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 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 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") 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 Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: bug-guix@gnu.org, gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org, nix-dev@cs.uu.nl 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