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From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Graphical GuixSD Installer
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 12:58:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zijwkrw6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161216110807.GA2104@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Fri, 16 Dec 2016 12:08:07 +0100")

Hi John,

John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> writes:

> There is a new branch called "wip-installer" providing a graphical
> installer for GuixSD.  A screenshot of it in action is attached.
>
> We want GuixSD to be accessible to as many people as possible,
> including people who may not (yet) be comfortable using bash and/or
> guile.

Amazing work! I really appreciate that this initiative lowers the
technical knowledge required for having a GuixSD system.

> It uses guile-ncurses so that will have to be installed and be
> in your load path.

Would it make sense to add a check for it at configure time and
conditionally compile and install the modules only if 'guile-ncurses' is
found, like what is done for 'guile-json'?

-- 
Mathieu Lirzin

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-16 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-16 11:08 Graphical GuixSD Installer John Darrington
2016-12-16 11:58 ` Mathieu Lirzin [this message]
2016-12-16 12:08   ` David Craven
2016-12-16 12:17     ` John Darrington
2016-12-16 12:24       ` David Craven
2016-12-16 12:33         ` David Craven
2016-12-16 12:57           ` David Craven
2016-12-16 16:34   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-12-16 15:14 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-12-16 16:13 ` Luis Felipe López Acevedo

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