From: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
To: guix-science@gnu.org, Peter Polidoro <peter@polidoro.io>
Subject: Re: Guix for Embedded, Hardware, Documentation, and Data
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:18:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CA44F2F-4430-425A-A652-62AE07339A52@lepiller.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <867dcceguz.fsf@polidoro.io>
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I think guix can be used for more than just packages. When you say documentation, what comes to mind is package documentation, but we also have man-pages, which contains no programs, only… well… man pages :). We also have sicp that contains only a book.
With cross-compilation, it shouldn't be too hard to build something for an embedded system, though that's still something that needg to be demonstrated I think.
Le 10 décembre 2021 08:00:23 GMT-05:00, Peter Polidoro <peter@polidoro.io> a écrit :
>Could Guix be used for packages that do not strictly contain
>operating system software?
>
>For example, could Guix be used for packages of embedded code and
>their dependencies to be run on a little RTOS, like Zephyr, or
>bare metal, like Arduino or PlatformIO libraries?
>
>Could it be used for hardware, like a Kicad pcb package that
>depends on component and footprint packages, or packages of
>FreeCAD mechanical assemblies that depend on part packages?
>
>Can Guix packages be used for documentation and other data?
>
>Or are all of these types of packages way outside the scope of
>Guix? Although it could still be used for the operating system
>software development environments for these types of projects, it
>might be very powerful to package other types of code and data as
>well.
>
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-10 13:00 Guix for Embedded, Hardware, Documentation, and Data Peter Polidoro
2021-12-10 22:18 ` Julien Lepiller [this message]
2021-12-12 8:43 ` Efraim Flashner
2021-12-12 9:43 ` [Spam:]Guix " Konrad Hinsen
2021-12-13 13:20 ` Guix " Peter Polidoro
2021-12-13 14:48 ` [Spam:]Re: " Konrad Hinsen
2021-12-14 15:19 ` Peter Polidoro
2021-12-13 14:25 ` zimoun
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