From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Lassieur Subject: Re: hpcguix-web, channels, and inferiors Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2018 19:34:09 +0200 Message-ID: <87sh1l62ge.fsf@lassieur.org> References: <87pnxqkbmg.fsf@gnu.org> <87zhvv5c4n.fsf@lassieur.org> <875zyi191w.fsf@inria.fr> 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]:55356) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g87W1-0001oH-3q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 13:34:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g87Vw-0001yX-Vq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 13:34:21 -0400 Received: from mail.lassieur.org ([83.152.10.219]:58050) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g87Vv-0001om-4b for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 13:34:16 -0400 In-reply-to: <875zyi191w.fsf@inria.fr> 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: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel Hello Ludovic, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > Hello, > > Cl=C3=A9ment Lassieur skribis: > >> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: >> >>> Hello Guix! >>> >>> There=E2=80=99s a little-known but neat program that Roel Janssen wrote= called >>> hpcguix-web. It=E2=80=99s a web UI (with JavaScript) that allows you t= o browse >>> packages; the UI can be customized, and Roel=E2=80=99s institution, for >>> instance, customizes it to provide instructions for their clusters. You >>> can see it in action here: >>> >>> https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/browse >>> >>> Until now hpcguix-web would just allow you to browse the list of >>> packages of the Guix it was built against (it used =E2=80=99fold-packag= es=E2=80=99, >>> etc.) >> >> Would it make sense to integrate it into Cuirass? We could browse >> packages on Cuirass and to each package would be associated a link to >> its build status on different architectures, etc. >> >> What do you think? > > Good question. Some sort of integration is desirable, with links as you > mention. Now Cuirass is not specifically about packages, conceptually > at least, so IMO having both features in the same tool would =E2=80=9Cbre= ak the > abstraction.=E2=80=9D Yes I agree. I wonder though: is there a way to know if a specific derivation is a package? > What we could do, though, is run hpcguix-web and Cuirass on the same > machine, and customize hpcguix-web such that it includes links to > Cuirass builds, for example. hpcguix-web already provides a level of > customization that should make it easy. Sounds good! Cl=C3=A9ment