From: jbranso@dismail.de
To: indieterminacy@libre.brussels
Cc: "Edouard Klein" <edou@rdklein.fr>,
"Patricio Martínez" <maxxcan@disroot.org>,
help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: package manager guix on Windows and OSX
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2021 00:25:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cf9899e326336999ddd55c94da9b5220@dismail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c642c2c525bb8224c1784e3402344cec@libre.brussels>
June 25, 2021 7:18 PM, indieterminacy@libre.brussels wrote:
> I love Latex, Context, I feel a bit weird for not having dabbled with Texinfo. Im not sure Texinfo
> is going to sway enough younger programmers (Im neither young nor old), I fear too many have been
> malconditioned into accepting delible communication techniques - Texinfo may no longer cut it.
We all owe Ludo a big thanks for writing Skribilo.
> I would consider Org mode to probably be the most acceptable default, though in many respects
> Skribilo could be more of a purer expression of a complete Guix approach. Are the aforementioned
> all different ways of dissuading people from considering Guix or documenting for it?
My understanding is that GNU Guix is a GNU project. As such we abide by the GNU coding standards,
which means that our documentation standard is GNU Texinfo. It was suggested to Stallman a while
ago that we should make the documentation standard Org mode, but Stallman did not like to force
people to use Emacs to write GNU documentation. I would love to re-implement Org mode in GNU Guile,
but that would probably be several years worth of effort. :) Or perhaps not. I could just write
a reader in Skribilo!
> FYI, I have been wading into the Gemini protocol the last two months. Beyond its more noticable
> security and publishing advantages, I have been entranced by the terseness of its Gem .gmi
> (minimalist MarkDown) format. I consider it has crossover appeal (as least between documenting
> power users across OSes). FYI, the OpenBSD crowd seem to have the lead in the Gemini space - but
> this is presumable for the protocol rather than the markdown.
I tend to agree. Drew Devault likes it a lot. I'm hoping to set up my blog to be hosted via gemini
too.
> Since then I stopped annotating in Orgmode and will be building workflows to (eventually?)
> approximate a lot of Orgmode functionality. Obviously Orgmode is awesome but I wonder if it is too
> designed around individual workflows and procedures - where greater payoff comes from pooled
> workflows and procedures.
>
> I had success/pleaseure converting from .gem to .org formats with this experimentation (concerning
> annotations for a Guix CWL blog post)
> => https://git.sr.ht/~indieterminacy/q1q20hqh_kq_oq_parsing_gem_zsh/tree
>
> From the tree you can see that it is feasible to output to *tex* or *html* formats, using simple
> REGEX foo.
>
> Additionally there is an unfinished attempt at exporting to (sic) Skribilo.
>
> (You may want to ignore the potentially impenitrable annotations, which concerns a 'Recursive
> Modelling Language' Ive been working on - it would certainly confuse this topic)
That sounds fun! Chat to me off list if you care to explain it.
> I would be happy if Guix writing was done with minimal Gem markup but with heavy Lisp usage for
> interpretation, synthesis, collection and publishing of content. I had originally taken the
> approach that there should be Tex heavy markup first and then simplified transposing into other
> formats later. Now Im on the other end of the horseshoe.
>
> I miss experimenting with regards to Tikz as a mechanism for generating graphics. I understand why
> other tools are used and ho programmers tend to seemingly think in terms of characters. It bothers
> me that I do not have beautiful graph displays representing my environment - to consider things
> from an impressionistic viewpoint and a contrast to text-editor/browser dualism. I suspect it isnt
> insurmountable and could allow visually minded people to not feel aggrieved by TUIscapes.
>
>> What do you mean by:
>>
>>> empathise regarding why networking engineers may prefer having a licence
>>> which permits encapsulation more readily.
>
> I mean: the MIT license allows you to operate in a commercial setting, whereby only the binaries
> are provided, without the requirement to provide the source content. While I normally am against
> this, an OpenBSD networking head has explained to me how there would be usecases where this would
> be useful - if only to provide the commercial breathing space for niche projects. I probably should
> stop paraphrasing this person now.
I suppose that's fair.
> Jonathan McHugh
> indieterminacy@libre.brussels
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-26 0:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-24 18:09 package manager guix on Windows and OSX Patricio Martínez
2021-06-24 19:07 ` jbranso
2021-06-25 12:36 ` Edouard Klein
2021-06-25 17:07 ` Joshua Branson
2021-06-25 17:50 ` Jonathan McHugh
2021-06-25 20:56 ` jbranso
2021-06-25 23:18 ` indieterminacy
2021-06-26 0:25 ` jbranso [this message]
2021-06-26 8:47 ` indieterminacy
2021-06-27 20:05 ` Edouard Klein
2021-06-29 2:21 ` maxxcan
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