From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Talk for the GHM
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:29:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y592d97n.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201307182117.15538.andreas@enge.fr> (Andreas Enge's message of "Thu, 18 Jul 2013 21:17:15 +0200")
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
> So here is my suggestion for the GHM:
Looks great to me! (And fewer buzzwords than mine. ;-))
> GNU Guix: Package without a scheme!
>
> One of the seducing features of the GNU Guix distribution is that the
I try to call it either the “GNU distribution” or the “GNU system”.
> package management system as well as the package descriptions themselves
> are written in Guile, the GNU implementation of the Scheme language. But
“one of GNU’s implementations of”, or “GNU’s core implementation of”,
just not to offend our MIT/Kawa/SCM friends.
> what if you do not know Scheme? Then you can still contribute by packaging
> your favourite GNU and other free software, and maybe learn a bit of
“free software packages”?
> beautiful functional programming en passant.
>
> This talk gives an overview of what is already packaged in GNU Guix,
> demonstrates the creation of a new package and asks the audience to come up
> with schemes of what to package for the next releases.
>
>
> I could give a talk of my own (two talks will give more weight to Guix!),
> but will probably not need 45 minutes; rather 30.
>
> Then I think we should have a tutorial session, where every GHM participant
> packages their favourite piece of software ;-)
Yes, that’d be great! An install party coupled with a hack fest. :-)
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-19 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-17 21:43 Talk for the GHM Ludovic Courtès
2013-07-18 14:14 ` Luca Saiu
2013-07-18 18:50 ` Andreas Enge
2013-07-19 12:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-07-18 19:17 ` Andreas Enge
2013-07-19 12:29 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-07-21 22:34 ` alex sassmannshausen
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