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From: David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: guix-shell?
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:31:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761hf2dsl.fsf@izanagi.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140826202004.GB11309@debian>

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> could you maybe provide a specification of what guix-shell is supposed to do?
> Not knowing nix-shell, I admit to being somewhat lost as to which problem
> you are trying to solve.
>
> Andreas
>

I think the Nix manual explains it best:
http://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sec-nix-shell

Basically, it creates a shell environment in which some packages
specified in an input file are available.  A great use-case for this is
setting up development environments for software projects.  A
'shell.nix' file would live in the root of a project's source tree.  A
new developer would clone the repository, run 'nix-shell' and have an
environment that has everything needed to build and run the software.

Does that help?

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David Thompson
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-26 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-22  9:22 Back from GHM Ludovic Courtès
2014-08-25 11:57 ` Amirouche Boubekki
2014-08-25 13:47   ` Thompson, David
2014-08-25 15:38     ` Amirouche Boubekki
2014-08-25 22:24     ` guix-shell? Ludovic Courtès
2014-08-26 11:32       ` guix-shell? David Thompson
2014-08-28 15:45         ` guix-shell? Ludovic Courtès
2014-08-26 12:14       ` guix-shell? David Thompson
2014-08-26 20:20         ` guix-shell? Andreas Enge
2014-08-26 20:31           ` David Thompson [this message]
2014-08-28 12:39             ` guix-shell? Amirouche Boubekki
2014-08-28 15:50         ` guix-shell? Ludovic Courtès
2014-08-30  2:03           ` guix-shell? David Thompson
2014-08-31 15:00             ` guix-shell? Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-18  2:22           ` guix-shell? David Thompson
2014-09-18  8:00             ` guix-shell? Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-21 17:25               ` guix-shell? David Thompson
2014-09-21 19:54                 ` guix-shell? Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-22  7:40                   ` guix-shell? Ludovic Courtès

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