From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Woodcroft Subject: Re: Rails Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 19:42:10 +1000 Message-ID: References: <20170712080348.b37v4aza26meukkn@abyayala> <20170712082009.GA9884@thebird.nl> <20170712084716.sr5h6r6khwkxnuup@abyayala> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34142) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVx7J-0008Eh-7j for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 05:42:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVx7G-0000RW-4D for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 05:42:33 -0400 Received: from mailhub1.soe.uq.edu.au ([130.102.132.208]:48760 helo=newmailhub.uq.edu.au) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVx7F-0000KS-FG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 05:42:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170712084716.sr5h6r6khwkxnuup@abyayala> 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" To: Pjotr Prins , Catonano , guix-devel , "Frederick M. Muriithi" On 12/07/17 18:47, ng0 wrote: > Pjotr Prins transcribed 0.4K bytes: >> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 08:03:48AM +0000, ng0 wrote: >>> While I was working on it (or occasionally do) I wonder why we have so >>> little rails packages? What happened there? >> Ruby support is great in Guix. But we don't use Rails much, yet. Dave >> started packaging some time back, but not sure what happened. We also >> need it for Arvados - Fred is working on that. >> >> Pj. >> >> > Ah! Good to know. I have some packages in a dirty branch, I just need to > figure out the right order. at the moment it's just one file and the top > view are about 40 rails packages I guess. There is actually a branch wip-rails on savannah that boots rails. It is somewhat dated, and needs some overall work (removal of unused packages, to start). Help is welcome - I won't be able to get to this for a few months at least. Many of the packages you list ng0 are in that branch, or already in Guix. ben