From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Cook, Malcolm" Subject: RE: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 15:06:59 +0000 Message-ID: References: <953f16876af34ea59b526b7f35482e72@exchsrv2.sgc.loc> <3125026547a945d28d1b32f57594c4d7@exchsrv2.sgc.loc> <20160219101029.GA14210@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52875) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWmeB-0002aY-4b for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:07:07 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWme6-0001OA-Vc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:07:07 -0500 Received: from smtp02.stowers.org ([40.141.174.62]:55663) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWme6-0001O4-OD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:07:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20160219101029.GA14210@thebird.nl> Content-Language: en-US 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: 'Pjotr Prins' Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" , "'bio-packaging@mailman.open-bio.org'" Pjotr! > > Yes. Agreed. However, my emphasis here was intended to be that > > Guix can be used to obviate the need for rbenv, virtualenv, and > > friends. I thought that `guix environment` was going to be an > > effective replacement for them. Am I mistaken in this? >=20 > I have dropped rbenv, virtualenv and even bundler from my working > environments, thanks to Guix! I am really, really, really happy > about that. >=20 > I even have different profiles for different ruby versions (one is on > 1.8.7). Glad to hear to the positive news. Looking forward to this too. > > I hope > > not! Assuming not, and if I understand your point, then I should > > write instead that this by virtue of guix's ability to set-up and > > tear down environments/profiles that not only specify versions of > > applications, but also libraries/plug-ins/modules for a variety of > > languages (ruby, perl, etc) and tools (emacs, etc). You mention the > > importance of 'importers' below... perhaps it is the combination of > > available importers (for scaffolding the packaging from external > > repos) along with the ability to use `guix environment` to make them > > available in specified contexts. >=20 > Yes, you need to create packages for all gems and Python modules in > use. Importers help define packages quickly. Again, thanks for confirmation, and for your succinct paraphrasing of this = consideration. ~Malcolm >=20 > Pj.