From: Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz>
To: Edouard Klein <edk@beaver-labs.com>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A friendlier API for operating-system declarations
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 19:48:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iler1ezd.fsf@jpoiret.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wn377rst.fsf@rdklein.fr>
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Hi Edouard,
Edouard Klein <edk@beaver-labs.com> writes:
> #+begin_src scheme
> (->
> (minimal-ovh "ssh-rsa AAASomethingSomething== root@minimal-ovh")
> (http-static-content "sub2.example.com" #:to-dir "/srv/sub2")
> (http-static-content "sub1.example.com" #:to-dir "/srv/sub1/")
> (add-services my-db))
> #+end_src
>
> The code of the function is on my channel:
> https://gitlab.com/edouardklein/guix/-/blob/beaverlabs/beaver/system.scm
>
> After a few months of experience, and positive feedback from my clients,
> my question to you guys is: would you be interested in mainlining this,
> or should I keep my development efforts separate in my channel ?
I am quite in favor of using operating-system transformations rather
than inheritance, because they're composable! This could be leveraged
to get a nice CLI API as well.
> I do think this API is easier than manipulating services, and although
> extendable services are awesome and a very nifty piece of engineering,
> they require quite a good knowledge of scheme and take a while to be
> used to, while this new API, while way less powerful, lowers the barrier
> to entry for newcomers.
By this, do you mean that there's no way with your syntax to modify a
given service? Is there a reason for this? It does seem to me that it
could probably be done.
> They are an easy way to maintain a declarative whole operating system
> configuration, with a syntax similar enough to docker and ansible that
> sysadmins familiar with it can quickly get up and running, thus exposing
> more people to Guix.
>
> What do you think ?
You've got me interested :) especially since you already have customer
feedback!
Best,
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Josselin Poiret
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-23 8:06 A friendlier API for operating-system declarations Edouard Klein
2023-03-23 18:48 ` Josselin Poiret [this message]
2023-03-23 20:23 ` Edouard Klein
2023-03-23 21:05 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-04-13 9:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-05-18 14:37 ` Edouard Klein
2023-11-24 21:43 ` Syntactic Diabetes (was Re: A friendlier API for operating-system declarations) Edouard Klein
2023-11-24 22:50 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-11-25 20:14 ` Attila Lendvai
2023-11-26 5:36 ` Michal Atlas
2023-11-26 16:49 ` Edouard Klein
2023-11-26 18:32 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-11-26 20:46 ` Edouard Klein
2023-11-27 21:09 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-11-29 20:12 ` Attila Lendvai
2023-11-29 23:39 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2023-11-30 11:16 ` Attila Lendvai
2023-12-01 18:18 ` Michal Atlas
2024-02-01 13:29 ` Introducing Guix "Features"! (Was: Syntactic Diabetes) Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-02-01 19:43 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2024-02-01 20:30 ` Attila Lendvai
2024-02-01 20:46 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2024-02-02 20:11 ` Attila Lendvai
2024-02-01 21:02 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-02-02 19:36 ` Attila Lendvai
2024-02-02 20:21 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2024-02-02 21:25 ` Attila Lendvai
2024-02-02 0:03 ` Introducing Guix "Features"! Carlo Zancanaro
2024-02-18 15:07 ` Introducing Guix "Features"! (Was: Syntactic Diabetes) Edouard Klein
2023-12-09 10:12 ` Syntactic Diabetes (was Re: A friendlier API for operating-system declarations) Ludovic Courtès
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2024-02-25 20:50 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
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