Re: What’s next?

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> I think it’s time to think about what we want to work on next, ideally
> before the next release, and ideally said release should be in a couple
> of months rather than in 5 months.  Here are some important items I can
> think of:

Great points!

>  • Implement channels: <https://bugs.gnu.org/22629>.  A first step may
>    be to fix some of the obvious shortcomings of ‘guix pull’: use (guix
>    git) to optimize bandwidth usage, and compute the derivation of the
>    new ‘guix’ and use that.
>
> I think the key idea is that we should fix all the annoyances and bugs,
> many of which seasoned Guix hackers more or less got used to, but which
> are nevertheless a serious hindrance when using Guix “normally.”

+1

A friend of mine is having a second look at Guix (not SD yet) and one of
the most confusing things initially is `guix pull'.  "When/how do I use
that," he asks...and I can only say: I'm not using that...I think we
want this to work--or something like this, we talked about this at
FOSDEM, but AFAIK everyone is using Guix with Git.

He responds with: then *why* is it in the manual.  I have no answer.
Possibly I'm wrong and/or my information is outdated?

Greetings,
janneke

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