From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Graphical GuixSD Installer Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 17:34:41 +0100 Message-ID: <87mvfv3k9q.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20161216110807.GA2104@jocasta.intra> <87zijwkrw6.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54487) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHvTE-0008N1-Md for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2016 11:34:57 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHvT9-0003D4-Kz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2016 11:34:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87zijwkrw6.fsf@gnu.org> (Mathieu Lirzin's message of "Fri, 16 Dec 2016 12:58:01 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Mathieu Lirzin Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Mathieu Lirzin skribis: > John Darrington writes: > >> There is a new branch called "wip-installer" providing a graphical >> installer for GuixSD. A screenshot of it in action is attached. >> >> We want GuixSD to be accessible to as many people as possible, >> including people who may not (yet) be comfortable using bash and/or >> guile. > > Amazing work! I really appreciate that this initiative lowers the > technical knowledge required for having a GuixSD system. > >> It uses guile-ncurses so that will have to be installed and be >> in your load path. > > Would it make sense to add a check for it at configure time and > conditionally compile and install the modules only if 'guile-ncurses' is > found, like what is done for 'guile-json'? I agree (though that can be done further down the road). Ludo=E2=80=99.