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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: Lars-Dominik Braun <ldb@leibniz-psychology.org>,
	guix-science@gnu.org, Simon Tournier <simon.tournier@u-paris.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add draft post "CRAN, a practical example for being reproducible at large scale using GNU Guix".
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2022 09:44:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y5BEXF3SBRymyjWb@3900XT> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86y1rkitkk.fsf@gmail.com>


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On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 01:51:23PM +0100, Simon Tournier wrote:
> Hi Lars,
> 
> On Tue, 06 Dec 2022 at 08:53, Lars-Dominik Braun <ldb@leibniz-psychology.org> wrote:
> 
> > attached my draft post for hpc.guix.info regarding guix-cran.
> 
> Applied, thanks.  It is under drafts/ [1].  Last round proofread before
> publishing.  On Friday?
> 
> 1: <https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/website/-/blob/master/drafts/reproducible-cran.md>

I had a couple of small changes I would make.

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diff --git a/drafts/reproducible-cran.md b/drafts/reproducible-cran.md
index e365f70..61f7444 100644
--- a/drafts/reproducible-cran.md
+++ b/drafts/reproducible-cran.md
@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ to R’s search path.
 
 While this approach works well for individual users, Guix installations
 with a larger user-base, for instance institution-wide, would benefit
-from default availability of the entire CRAN package collection with
-pre-built substitutes to speed up installation times. Additionally
-reproducing environments would include less steps if the package
+from the default availability of the entire CRAN package collection with
+pre-built substitutes to speed up installation times. Additionally,
+reproducing environments would include fewer steps if the package
 recipes were available to anyone by default.
 
 ## Introducing guix-cran
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ pre-built on a central server.
 
 As of commit `cc7394098f306550c476316710ccad20a510fa4b` there are 17431
 packages available in guix-cran. 95% of them are buildable and only 0.5%
-of these builds are not reproducible via `guix build --check`.  It is
+of these builds are not reproducible via `guix build --check`. It is
 also possible to use old package versions via `guix time-machine`, similar
 to what [MRAN](https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/rro/reproducibility)
 offers. However, that time-frame only spans about two months right now.
@@ -89,9 +89,9 @@ CRAN importer.
 
 Currently building the channel derivation is very slow, most
 likely due to Guile performance issues. For this reason packages
-are split into files by first letter.  This way they can
-still be referenced deterministically by the first letter of
-their name.  Since the number of loadable modules is [limited to
+are split into files by the first letter of their name. This way they can
+still be referenced deterministically by their first letter.
+Since the number of loadable modules is [limited to
 8192](https://www.mail-archive.com/guile-devel@gnu.org/msg16244.html),
 creating one module file per package is not possible and putting them
 all into the same file is even slower.

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-07  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-06  7:53 [PATCH] Add draft post "CRAN, a practical example for being reproducible at large scale using GNU Guix" Lars-Dominik Braun
2022-12-06 12:51 ` Simon Tournier
2022-12-07  7:44   ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2022-12-07  8:39     ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2022-12-07 11:11       ` Simon Tournier
2022-12-07  8:36   ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2022-12-13 13:53     ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-13 16:34       ` zimoun
2022-12-16  8:00       ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2022-12-16  8:58         ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-17  9:53           ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2022-12-17 11:43             ` Simon Tournier
2022-12-19 15:06               ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2022-12-21 14:43                 ` Ludovic Courtès

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