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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Lars-Dominik Braun <ldb@leibniz-psychology.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guix Front End (GUI) and making it more mainstream, popular in scientific community.
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2020 22:53:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnz4pwvd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201030084922.GC3128@zpidnp36> (Lars-Dominik Braun's message of "Fri, 30 Oct 2020 09:49:22 +0100")

Hi,

Lars-Dominik Braun <ldb@leibniz-psychology.org> skribis:

>> […] from my point of view, the good direction would be a “web-app frontend”,
>> similarly to git-annex-assistant [1].  This design is more flexible because
>> it could be used locally *and* could also be the front-end of some servers
>> (e.g., build farms).
> I have something like this on my todo list as well. It would probably be more
> of a manifest file editor though, since we use manifest files for
> reproducibility.

Long ago Dave Thompson wrote guix-web, which allowed you to install
packages (you’d run it as your user):

  https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https://gitorious.org/guix-web/guix-web.git

It’s an interesting approach with several advantages (in particular it
can be quickly developed), though I must say I remain unenthusiastic
about using web browsers for local GUIs.

Thanks,
Ludo’.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-01 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-29 16:25 Guix Front End (GUI) and making it more mainstream, popular in scientific community Aniket Patil
2020-10-29 18:22 ` jbranso
2020-10-29 18:38   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-01 21:46     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-02  7:40       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-02  8:27         ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-10-29 18:45   ` jbranso
2020-11-02  7:41     ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-10-29 19:15 ` zimoun
2020-10-30  8:49   ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2020-11-01 21:53     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-11-02 10:03       ` Taylan Kammer
2020-11-02 10:24       ` Gtk via the web Danny Milosavljevic
2020-11-03  9:54         ` aviva
2020-11-03 13:31         ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-29 19:34 ` Guix Front End (GUI) and making it more mainstream, popular in scientific community Danny Milosavljevic
2020-11-01 22:09   ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-02  7:44   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-02 10:17     ` GNOME in Guix Danny Milosavljevic
2020-11-06  9:41       ` Pierre Neidhardt

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