From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: guix packages Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 16:10:40 +0200 Message-ID: <20140824141040.GA21385@debian> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53510) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XLYVS-0003zf-21 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2014 10:11:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XLYVK-0007dF-I5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2014 10:10:53 -0400 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.131]:54562) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XLYVK-0007d6-8m for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2014 10:10:46 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Federico Beffa Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 10:02:30AM +0200, Federico Beffa wrote: > Given that guix is based on nix and currently nix has many more > packages available than guix, is there (or is it planned to have) an > automated procedure for porting nix packages to guix? (Actually a > bidirectional procedure would be interesting.) The package declaration language is too different to import them from one to the other. Also, we try to run the test suites of packages, and nix does not. Regularly, there is a bit of work involved in getting the tests to run (including patching and reporting bugs upstream). But notice that you can run one on top of the other. Andreas