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From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution
	<guix-devel@gnu.org>, Ryan Prior <ryanprior@hey.com>
Subject: Re: Reviving Emacs-Guix
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 10:42:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pn4g8eay.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tuttci4z.fsf_-_@gnu.org>

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Hi Ludo,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

>> I believe it suffers from 2 main issues:
>>
>> - Geiser is a strong dependency: everything depends from a well-working
>>   Geiser REPL.
>
> That’s a feature!

That'd be true if Geiser would indeed help us with Guix.  But here it
actually provides almost no benefits and costs us a lot.

Indeed, the *Guix REPL* buffer

- is not required to build packages,
- does not work to build packages because Geiser chokes on it,
- cannot interrupt some operations (https://gitlab.com/emacs-geiser/geiser/-/issues/11).

The benefits are few as I've experienced them:

- Traces are not interactive, which makes them not so useful:
  https://gitlab.com/emacs-geiser/geiser/-/issues/10

- Guix traces are hard to read anyways (I guess this is mostly due to
  our client / daemon architecture).

> Not a problem if Emacs-Guix were maintained, IMO.  We can talk to each
> other, jao (the Geiser maintainer and primary developer) has always been
> responsive and helpful.

True, the maintainer is responsive, sadly the issues I'm talking about
are hard to solve I think, they've been left hanging for a while now:

- https://gitlab.com/emacs-geiser/geiser/-/issues/9
- https://gitlab.com/emacs-geiser/geiser/-/issues/11

Unless someone wants to roll up their sleeves and fix these, Geiser will
remain a deal-breaker for Emacs-Guix.



I'd like insist: in the current state of Geiser, we cannot leverage it
reliably in Emacs-Guix.  We need to talk to Guix directly, e.g. with
`guix repl` like I've done in Nyxt.

Cheers!

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-14  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-10  5:07 Announcing emacs-guix-packaging Ryan Prior
2020-11-10 13:30 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-12 20:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-13  1:28   ` Ryan Prior
2020-11-13  9:45     ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-13 13:20       ` zimoun
2020-11-13 14:54         ` John Soo
2020-11-13 16:54       ` Reviving Emacs-Guix Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-13 17:13         ` John Soo
2020-11-13 18:42         ` zimoun
2020-11-16  8:56           ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-14  9:42         ` Pierre Neidhardt [this message]
2020-11-14 12:57           ` zimoun
2020-11-14 15:59             ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-14 16:56               ` zimoun
2020-11-14 17:30                 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-14 18:40                   ` zimoun
2020-11-14 19:15                     ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-14 19:52                       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-11-14 21:29                         ` zimoun
2020-11-15  7:37                           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-15 13:15                             ` zimoun
2020-11-15 14:11                               ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-15 15:23                                 ` zimoun
2020-11-15 15:45                                   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-15 16:05                                     ` zimoun
2020-11-14 21:11                       ` zimoun
2020-11-15  7:53                         ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-14 19:49           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-11-15  7:36             ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-16  9:02             ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-16  9:18               ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-16 12:01                 ` zimoun
2020-11-16 12:20                   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-16 12:47                     ` zimoun
2020-11-17  7:53                       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-13 12:31     ` Announcing emacs-guix-packaging zimoun

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