Re: First impressions from delving into Guix

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

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From what I understand, outreachy has a contribution period during which you need to register at least one successful contribution with the project. Out of the potential interns who submitted a contribution, we then have to select one to work on the project. Well if you can finish the project before it even starts it's great, but you'll be left with nothing to do ^^"

Le 11 octobre 2020 09:18:41 GMT-04:00, Lulu <me@erkin.party> a écrit :
>> On 2020-10-11 14:46 zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> What do you mean?  What do you feel that is missing?
>
>This one was a mistake on my part; I thought the module layout was much
>more
>rigid than it actually is, due to informal conventions, and the
>Emacs-style
>Commentary and Code sections threw me off. :-P
>
>> Do you have a wording suggestion?
>
>Hmm, you could say outright in the beginning of "(guix)System
>Configuration"
>that configuration isn't kept in specific magic files, unlike most
>other
>operating systems, and that configuration happens atomically and
>endures until
>the next reconfiguration. (So that's what instantiation means here!)
>
>Other operating systems I've used that had a unified high-level CLI
>over
>existing system configuration still had configuration files to be
>parsed at
>startup, so I was a bit lost. :-)
>
>> If you have time, I would be interested by these issues; if you
>remember.
>
>Someone in #guix said the SELinux policy module dated to Fedora 23
>times, so
>that's probably why. (I was on Fedora 31.)
> 
>> What do you mean?  “guix show guile” lists all the available
>versions.
>> 
>> Which Guile have you patched?  The Guile that Arch provides, right?
> 
>Arch doesn't provide a Guile 3.0 package and the user-provided script
>on AUR is
>broken, so I had to patch that to get it to play nice with the native
>package
>manager. I'm not quite sure why but my attempts at introducing Guile
>into the
>environment through Guix failed. I'll try again later to investigate.
>
>> So I am not convinced that the “and” is really required. ;-)  But
>“more
>> is less”. :-)
> 
>Ah, that makes sense. I tried the -utf8- one at first, then installed
>the other
>one. Now I see!
>
>> I suggest to read [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] and try to package something.
>> Easy and good candidates for first packages are CRAN or BioConductor
>> packages:
>>
>> You can pick unpackaged one from the list [8].  Do not hesitate to
>ask
>> me if you do not find an obvious one –– it should a good occasion to
>> show you “guix repl”. :-)
>
>Sure thing! But shouldn't I finish the Git log subcommand first? Or
>should I
>leave it to last?
>
>--
>Lulu

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