From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: article on Guix Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 23:56:46 -0400 Message-ID: <20160624035646.GA20038@jasmine> References: <1958229.9gnFz0Qv7g@nanday> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32881) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bGIEp-00078j-LG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 23:57:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bGIEk-0003dc-Fw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 23:57:02 -0400 Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:52951) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bGIEj-0003bb-6Y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 23:56:58 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1958229.9gnFz0Qv7g@nanday> 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" To: Bruce Byfield Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, ludovic.courtes@inria.fr, ludo@chbouib.org On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 12:55:44PM -0700, Bruce Byfield wrote: > Hi: > > With the recent attention being paid to Ubuntu's Snappy packages, I > thought this would be a good time to bring the development of Guix to > reader's attention. I agree. There has been a lot of discussion of Snappy, Flatpak / xdg-app, and AppImage, but not enough discussion of Guix or Nix :) > Would two or three people be willing to answer questions for me over the > next few days? I would need the answers by Tuesday, June 28 at the very > latest so that I can make my deadline. I'd be very happy to help answer your questions to the best of my ability! Hopefully some of the more experienced Guix hackers will also be able to help.