From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Idea: a meta language for (language) build systems - npm, Racket, Rust cargo
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 12:08:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtrrqw2p.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35dd481ec1c8c2e8f1f65b74bcdbe1980da3b5b0.camel@student.tugraz.at>
Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> writes:
> Guix as a build system, with or without GWL, is fine as long as
> it's
> just fun and games […]
I keep seeing GWL in unexpected places, so I feel the need to
state that the GWL is not meant to help anyone *build* software.
It’s meant to let you *combine* applications and *run* them on an
HPC cluster (or on a bunch of physical or virtual machines) to
process raw data. The intended use case is scientific workflows.
Don’t try to use the GWL as a build system; it will end in tears.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-15 10:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-30 8:38 Idea: a meta language for (language) build systems - npm, Racket, Rust cargo Pjotr Prins
2021-05-30 19:17 ` Konrad Hinsen
2021-05-31 17:47 ` Pjotr Prins
2021-06-01 5:50 ` Adriano Peluso
2021-06-01 6:24 ` Leo Prikler
2021-06-01 7:23 ` Pjotr Prins
2021-06-01 8:12 ` Leo Prikler
2021-06-01 8:59 ` Adriano Peluso
2021-06-01 9:11 ` Leo Prikler
2021-06-01 10:52 ` Adriano Peluso
2021-06-01 11:03 ` Leo Prikler
2021-06-01 11:28 ` Adriano Peluso
2021-06-01 15:22 ` Leo Prikler
2021-06-01 7:56 ` Konrad Hinsen
2021-06-01 23:35 ` Joshua Branson
2021-06-08 13:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-06-14 14:29 ` Pjotr Prins
2021-06-14 22:04 ` Leo Prikler
2021-06-15 8:48 ` Pjotr Prins
2021-06-15 10:08 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2021-06-20 15:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
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