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* Guix on macOS
@ 2017-10-12  3:29 Chris Marusich
  2017-10-12  8:08 ` Konrad Hinsen
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From: Chris Marusich @ 2017-10-12  3:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi Guix,

I want to get Guix working on macOS.  I recently had a need to do this,
and I was sad to find that although Nix works on macOS, Guix isn't quite
there yet.  The manual makes it sound like this should be fairly
straightforward, and I intend to give it a shot [1].  But before I
begin, I wanted to know: has anyone done this already?  Is there
interest?  I've checked the email lists, and I didn't find much
discussion about this.

I know a lot of developers who use macOS as their primary workstation,
and most of them use a combination of Homebrew [2] and manual
installation for package management.  It'd be great if Guix were easy to
use on macOS!  Not only is it the best package manager (of course! :-)),
but it would be a great way to encourage the use and growth of free
software among this group of people.

Additionally, if you're interested in helping out, please let me know.
To facilitate the work, I'm temporarily renting a Mac from MacStadium
[3] (it's just a weak little Mac Mini [4] for now), and it would be
trivial to give interested parties administrative access (via VNC and
SSH) to facilitate the work.

Footnotes: 
[1]  info '(guix) Porting'

[2]  https://brew.sh/

[3]  https://www.macstadium.com/

[4]  https://www.macstadium.com/mac-mini/

-- 
Chris

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2017-10-12  3:29 Guix on macOS Chris Marusich
2017-10-12  8:08 ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-10-12  8:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-12 20:35   ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-10-12 21:33   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-10-13 15:58     ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-10-13  7:14   ` Chris Marusich
2017-10-13 11:47     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-10-13 12:55     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-13 13:59       ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-10-13 13:59       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-10-13 15:59         ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-10-13 14:08       ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-10-25 15:50         ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-10-27  4:11     ` Chris Marusich
2017-10-27  7:56       ` Hartmut Goebel
2017-10-28 20:27       ` Building Docker images of GuixSD Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-31  2:59         ` Chris Marusich
2017-11-05 15:45           ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-11-09  6:15             ` Chris Marusich
2017-11-09  6:43               ` Pjotr Prins
2017-11-09  8:23               ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-11-17 21:14               ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-11-27 22:13               ` Christopher Baines
2017-11-30  9:11                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-07  9:33                 ` Chris Marusich
2017-12-16  2:30                 ` Chris Marusich
2017-10-12 19:09 ` Guix on macOS Christopher Baines
2017-10-25 14:45 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-10-27  1:06   ` Chris Marusich

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