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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Aniket Patil <aniket112.patil@gmail.com>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Outreachy contribution getting started.
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 14:41:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86eem3vcp4.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF-xJgt7=N1+5bnwSX=uR6K7Qkaa6R9PGrvWksO9iVuzMkg=Lg@mail.gmail.com>

Hey!

Welcome!
And thank you for your interest in Guix.


Have you currently running Guix?

If no, the easiest is to start with the package manager [1] using the
shell script installer (first Red note in [1] :-)).  The package manager
works on any GNU/linux distribution and is not in conflict with the
distro package manager.  Do not hesitate to ask on help-guix@gnu.org or
#guix if you hit any problem, the Guix folks are prompt for
answering. :-) Once you can run "guix <command>" [2], you can read how
to define a package [3].  BTW, give a look to the Perfect Setup [4] and
here [5] my config files if you need inspiration. ;-)

Well, if you have already used --- or currently using --- you can try
"guix import" or "guix refresh"; i.e., write your first package
contribution.  Therefore, you need to read [6].  Again, do not hesitate
to ask on help-guix@gnu.org or #guix if you hit any problem.

To be concrete, I suggest to read [3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12] and try to
package something.  Easy and good candidates for first packages are CRAN
or BioConductor packages:

   guix import cran <pkg>
   guix import cran -a bioconductor <pkg>

You can pick unpackaged one from the list [12].  Do not hesitate to ask
if you do not find an obvious one –– it should a good occasion to show
you “guix repl”. :-)


[1] http://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html#Binary-Installation
[2] http://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Getting-Started.html#Getting-Started
[3] http://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/Packaging-Tutorial.html#Packaging-Tutorial
[4] http://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/The-Perfect-Setup.html#The-Perfect-Setup
[5] https://github.com/zimoun/my-conf
[6] http://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Contributing.html


7 : https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Defining-Packages
8 : https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Packaging-Guidelines
9 : https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Invoking-guix-import
10: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Invoking-guix-refresh
11: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Building-from-Git
12: https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/


All the best,
simon


      reply	other threads:[~2020-10-12 12:44 UTC|newest]

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2020-10-12 11:52 Outreachy contribution getting started Aniket Patil
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