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From: Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>, Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>
Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
	"guile-user@gnu.org" <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: guix is the guildhall that we always wanted!
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 18:16:36 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <733768958.2314253.1489774596041@mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170317173926.GA8947@mail.thebird.nl>

Hi all,

While I don't have too much experience with the Guix,
I have been around long enough to see multiple experiments

with package management come and go.  (I remember life
before RPM. haha)

As a general principle, any package manager will fail
if it doesn't have developer excitement.  And to be
developer friendly, it has to allow software in all
of its phases from a chaotic pre-alpha to a reliable
release.

I do rather like the idea of an easy push for new updates
to alpha and beta-level packages.  I also
like the idea of some curating or labeling or rating
of packages that describe themselves as stable or

complete.  Actually, I should be more forceful: without
allowing for both alpha-level chaos and a stable central
corpus of packages, any new package management experiment
will fail.


My two cents,
Thanks,
Mike Gran

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-17 18:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-16 18:25 guix is the guildhall that we always wanted! Andy Wingo
2017-03-16 19:26 ` Amirouche Boubekki
2017-03-17  8:23   ` Andy Wingo
2017-03-18  0:10     ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-03-16 22:01 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-03-16 22:24   ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-17  9:01     ` Florian Paul Schmidt
2017-03-17  9:45       ` Andy Wingo
2017-03-17 11:24       ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-17  6:51   ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-03-17  8:30   ` Andy Wingo
2017-03-17 13:54     ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-03-17 14:26       ` Andy Wingo
2017-03-18 14:00         ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-17 11:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-17 12:32   ` Andy Wingo
2017-03-17 17:39     ` Pjotr Prins
2017-03-17 18:16       ` Mike Gran [this message]
2017-03-17 13:22   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-18 14:04     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-18 14:10       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-19 15:57         ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-19 16:22           ` Eli Zaretskii

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