From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?0J3QuNC60LjRgtCwINCn0YPRgNCw0LXQsg==?= Subject: Idea: Install script to better support improving contributor-friendliness of projects Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 14:43:34 +0300 Message-ID: <311dec57-62fd-a88d-19d4-2eae9041ef97@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47533) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIvLZ-0003Ne-DX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 06:43:42 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIvLW-0002iR-9z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 06:43:41 -0500 Received: from mail-lf0-x242.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c07::242]:37474) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIvLW-0002hQ-1A for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 06:43:38 -0500 Received: by mail-lf0-x242.google.com with SMTP id y2so28732742lfj.4 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 03:43:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.235] ([37.113.52.251]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a69sm4318980ljf.54.2017.11.26.03.43.35 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 26 Nov 2017 03:43:35 -0800 (PST) Content-Language: en-US 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: guix-devel@gnu.org Here's how I want to use Guix and it is to increase contributor-friendliness of a project, so that the user can simply run a distribution-independent command to install all dependencies without having to hunt for them with `apt` and `dnf` manually. Unfortunately, Guix itself is not very easy to install, and the instructions are full of rather technical stuff like 'systemd' and 'upstart'. https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html There should be a script like the one Haskell Stack uses: |curl -sSL https://get.haskellstack.org/ | sh| IMO supporting this as a use case could really bring popularity to GNU Guix. |||| ||