From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: zimoun Subject: Re: On DSLs Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 16:46:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87mudrxvs8.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87mudd59ho.fsf@gnu.org> <877e4glyc3.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87v9rxx8ri.fsf@gnu.org> <87d0e4oy51.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <878sop6icq.fsf@gnu.org> <87d0drscng.fsf@gnu.org> <87mucm4iyp.fsf@gnu.org> <877e3narto.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <11023A81-0C23-48F0-83E9-082D39343FAB@lepiller.eu> <87zhg98son.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44140) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1icAOG-0007aa-Ak for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2019 10:47:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1icAO9-0001AB-W5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2019 10:47:00 -0500 Received: from mail-qv1-xf2d.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::f2d]:35303) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1icAO9-0000uL-Eq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2019 10:46:57 -0500 Received: by mail-qv1-xf2d.google.com with SMTP id d17so1704569qvs.2 for ; Tue, 03 Dec 2019 07:46:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87zhg98son.fsf@elephly.net> 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: Guix Devel Hi, On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 at 15:36, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Konrad Hinsen writes: > >> Could this discussion be saved in the cookbook for instance? I'd like > >> to have this kind of discussion on the approach of guix and ideas > >> behind it somewhere more accessible than the ML archive. Does it make > >> sense? > > > > I think it makes sense to archive summaries of such discussions. I am > > less convinced that the cookbook is the right place, because design > > principles are pretty much the opposite of what I'd expect in a > > cookbook. But I don't see any better place and multiplying the parts of > > the documentation isn't great either. So... I am undecided ;-) > > We can rename the cookbook to make it fit ;) > > It was a placeholder name, because we all agreed for some time that a > =E2=80=9Cdocument=E2=80=9D like that would be useful and that it shouldn= =E2=80=99t be a wiki. > Beyond that we really didn=E2=80=99t have any plans. I went ahead and > started it to enable collaboration on this resource =E2=80=94 whatever it= may > become eventually. IMHO, Julien has opened an interesting discussion about the Cookbook in this thread [1]. >From my point view, we have not defined what the Cookbook is i.e., its aim and we all have different definitions, so we do not know where to document what. [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-11/msg00478.html Cheers, simon