Unofficial Neovim channel

Unofficial Neovim channel

[HiPhish]

Hello Guix developers,

I have set up an unofficial Guix channel for Neovim (and possibly for related 
projects in the future):

https://gitlab.com/HiPhish/neovim-guix-channel/

The plan is to use this channel first, and then submit patches to Guix when 
everything is deemed correct and reliable. I also wrote a blog post[1] on the 
topic, although it's primarily addressed at people familiar with Neovim and 
unfamiliar with Guix. I would very much appreciate if someone could go over 
the code in my channel and see if everything is in order.

HiPhish

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[1] http://hiphish.github.io/blog/2019/01/21/neovim-guix-channel/

Re: Unofficial Neovim channel

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

HiPhish <hiphish@posteo.de> skribis:

> I have set up an unofficial Guix channel for Neovim (and possibly for related 
> projects in the future):
>
> https://gitlab.com/HiPhish/neovim-guix-channel/
>
> The plan is to use this channel first, and then submit patches to Guix when 
> everything is deemed correct and reliable. I also wrote a blog post[1] on the 
> topic, although it's primarily addressed at people familiar with Neovim and 
> unfamiliar with Guix. I would very much appreciate if someone could go over 
> the code in my channel and see if everything is in order.

Nice, thanks for sharing!

And yes, do feel free to contribute the package(s) to Guix itself when
you deem appropriate!  :-)

Ludo’.

Re: Unofficial Neovim channel

[Julien Lepiller]

Le 2019-01-21 12:22, HiPhish a écrit :
> Hello Guix developers,
> 
> I have set up an unofficial Guix channel for Neovim (and possibly for 
> related
> projects in the future):
> 
> https://gitlab.com/HiPhish/neovim-guix-channel/
> 
> The plan is to use this channel first, and then submit patches to Guix 
> when
> everything is deemed correct and reliable. I also wrote a blog post[1] 
> on the
> topic, although it's primarily addressed at people familiar with Neovim 
> and
> unfamiliar with Guix. I would very much appreciate if someone could go 
> over
> the code in my channel and see if everything is in order.
> 
> HiPhish

Hi,

I wonder why you felt the need to have that channel? We already have a 
neovim
package in guix. I'm very curious because I use that package and didn't 
feel
that anything was missing, apart maybe from the possibility to install 
plugins
from guix, which would be great. What's the difference between your 
definition
and guix' definition?

> 
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> [1] http://hiphish.github.io/blog/2019/01/21/neovim-guix-channel/

Re: Unofficial Neovim channel

[Pjotr Prins]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 12:14:53PM +0100, Julien Lepiller wrote:
> I wonder why you felt the need to have that channel? We already have
> a neovim package in guix. I'm very curious because I use that
> package and didn't feel that anything was missing, apart maybe from
> the possibility to install plugins from guix, which would be great.
> What's the difference between your definition and guix' definition?

Channels are a good way to experiment. I guess experimentation is the
purpose :). 

Pj.

Re: Unofficial Neovim channel

[HiPhish]

> I wonder why you felt the need to have that channel?
Two points: the package in Guix is lagging behind in release, and I don't know 
enough yet about Guix to submit patches on a whim. So I made a channel to first 
try thing out for myself before submitting them to Guix. If I mess something 
up in my channel that's my problem, but if I mess up something in Guix then it 
reflects badly on all of Guix. I could have just left the channel local to my 
hard drive (as I had in the past), but making it public allows more people to 
have a look at it.

I guess most (all?) Guix package maintainers use Emacs instead of Vim or 
Neovim, but I use Neovim as my daily driver, so I'm more likely to catch if 
something is wrong. For example, I noticed that the Guix Neovim package is 
using Lua 5.2 libraries has its inputs, whereas you need Lua 5.1 libraries 
(Lua is not backwards-compatible). I had also submitted Lua 5.1 packages of 
lua-lpeg and lua-libmpack to Guix in the past.

> What's the difference between your definition and guix' definition?
Currently not much, only being three releases ahead and having the correct 
dependencies. (Lua 5.2 generally works as well, but you never know when an 
obscure edge-case might bite you in the rear)