From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mathieu Lirzin Subject: Re: Graphical GuixSD Installer Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 12:58:01 +0100 Message-ID: <87zijwkrw6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20161216110807.GA2104@jocasta.intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58060) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHr9J-0005kU-Ni for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2016 06:58:09 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHr9I-0004o7-Nr for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2016 06:58:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20161216110807.GA2104@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Fri, 16 Dec 2016 12:08:07 +0100") 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: John Darrington Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi John, John Darrington 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