From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: FOSDEM is coming! Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 02:04:24 -0600 Message-ID: <20191124080424.st6ktxggroc6pq3p@thebird.nl> References: <87sgme65cr.fsf@gnu.org> <20191123172927.GB1124@E5400> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44662) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iYn20-0007eW-UF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Nov 2019 03:14:09 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iYn20-0006IS-0Q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Nov 2019 03:14:08 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20191123172927.GB1124@E5400> 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: Efraim Flashner Cc: Guix Devel On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 07:29:27PM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote: > I've been working on using 'guix system container' to deploy services on > non-Guix systems and I've been thinking of preparing a talk and sending > it off to the distribution room. Or the container room? Or the HPC room? Just submit, you never know. > I think it would be interesting to give a talk to the rust people about > my experiences trying to package rust in Guix but I'm not sure how > receptive they'd be. Not very, I suspect, until we come with a solution that solves *their* problems. The popularity of Rust is something of an enigma to me. This is not the place to give a Rust rant, but I do think that packaging needs to happen at the distribution level, rather than at the language level. Most modern languages go down that route - it is not great. Pj.