From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: GNU Guix 0.2 released Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 09:42:05 +0200 Message-ID: <87k3n0n0z6.fsf@gnu.org> References: 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]:43076) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UcWLo-000583-08 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2013 03:42:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UcWLm-0000g1-Ha for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2013 03:42:15 -0400 Received: from [2a01:e0b:1:123:ca0a:a9ff:fe03:271e] (port=55435 helo=xanadu.aquilenet.fr) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UcWLm-0000f7-BO for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2013 03:42:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Xue Fuqiao's message of "Wed, 15 May 2013 13:01:05 +0800") 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: Xue Fuqiao Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org, =?utf-8?Q?Germ=C3=A1n?= Arias Hi Germ=C3=A1n, Xue Fuqiao skribis: > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Germ=C3=A1n Arias w= rote: >> On 2013-05-13 17:12:07 -0600 Xue Fuqiao wrote: >> >>> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wr= ote: >>>> We are pleased to announce GNU Guix version 0.2, the second alpha >>>> release, representing 580 commits by 5 people over 4 months. >>> >>> Great news, *thanks* to everyone involved! >>> >> >> Currently I'm testing GSRC on my PC. So, my question is: What is the dif= ference between Guix and GSRC? Regards. > > IIUC GNU SRC is only a simple way to install the latest officially > released versions of _GNU_ packages. GNU Guix is a purely functional > package manager for the GNU system, and the package in Guix is not > necessarily be a GNU program. Right. So Guix is a package manager (like APT, but with additional features), and GNU Guix comes with a GNU/Linux distribution (a small one currently, but the goal is to have a complete distro.) A feature that you may find useful for the purpose of testing GNUstep is that several variants of the same package (for instance, GNUstep build with different options, or different versions of its dependencies) can coexist. The system maintains a mapping between your package=E2=80=99s rec= ipe and its build result, so you know exactly what you=E2=80=99re testing. Anyway, I=E2=80=99ve also been thinking that it=E2=80=99d be great to have = GNUstep packaged in Guix one of these days. If you want to help with that, I=E2=80= =99m happy to give a hand! :-) Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.