From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Tanguy LE CARROUR <tanguy@bioneland.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Contributing Guix Home services
Date: Wed, 03 May 2023 22:42:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pm7hxi30.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <168200453237.12030.10686882904904843012@localhost> (Tanguy LE CARROUR's message of "Thu, 20 Apr 2023 17:28:52 +0200")
Hey!
Tanguy LE CARROUR <tanguy@bioneland.org> skribis:
> Quoting Ludovic Courtès (2023-04-17 15:39:02)
>> Tanguy LE CARROUR <tanguy@bioneland.org> skribis:
>> > It's been quite a journey on my side! Ups. Downs. Mostly downs, though! 😅
>> > Thanks to Simon's unconditional technical and moral support, a **LOT**
>> > has changed since I sent this message. Hopefully for the better! 🤞
>>
>> Heh. :-) While it’s fresh on your mind, it would be nice to list the
>> problems you ran into on your journey and see what we can do about it.
>
> Mostly figuring out how to test it!
>
> On my machine at home, `guix home reconfigure` can take minutes.
Did you test with ‘guix home container’ first? That’s what I do and I
added this command precisely so one can test without any risk of
breaking things.
It’s still too slow though, that’s right.
> I can only test file generation, though.
The msmtp service does nothing but file generation though, right?
> Then I painfully discovered that replacing in a string is not as easy as
> it sounds, or, more precisely, that "python replace in string" yields
> better results than "scheme replace in string" in DuckDuckGo!
True! Perhaps something to add to the Cookbook’s Scheme intro.
(Fun fact: I’ve never used that (ice-9 string-fun) module that keeps
popping up in new code. :-))
> I've also used `gexp` in places where I'm not sure it makes any sense,
> but it works, so… #pragmatic!
Alright.
> Done! <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/62969>
Wo0t!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-03 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-25 16:53 Contributing Guix Home services Tanguy LE CARROUR
2023-04-04 7:45 ` Tanguy LE CARROUR
2023-04-13 20:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-04-14 12:03 ` Tanguy LE CARROUR
2023-04-17 13:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-04-20 15:28 ` Tanguy LE CARROUR
2023-05-03 20:42 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2023-05-17 7:16 ` Tanguy LE CARROUR
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