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In-Reply-To: <878sf9812f.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s=22'?= =?utf-8?Q?s?= message of "Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:00:56 +0200") References: <3364bc82b7660df3ae8613cdadef8b9dac2fe416.camel@korwin-zmijowski.fr> <83wo2teag4.fsf@gnu.org> <878sf9812f.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) OpenPGP: id=525F7E60AD812C2361752BB4C8B0F8548EE7F3E7; url=https://openpgpkey.gnui.org/.well-known/openpgpkey/gnui.org/hu/hr4k5tkxm6shwdc18su4bkm34w3dctjd Mail-Copies-To: always Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 20:47:16 +0300 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Received-SPF: pass client-ip=213.182.54.6; envelope-from=dag@gnui.org; helo=relay-1.mailobj.net X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/07/24 12:25:19 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.1-3.10 X-Spam_score_int: -28 X-Spam_score: -2.9 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-1, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-guix@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, help-guix@gnu.org Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" X-Scanner: scn0 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of help-guix-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=help-guix-bounces@gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -1.11 X-TUID: 7PyDKYuPq6TZ --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > Eli Zaretskii skribis: >> Sadly, Guile seems to care only about one OS: GNU/Linux > my understanding is that Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has the potent= ial to make all of us happy. It=CA=BCs the most disappointing thing to hear from a Guile maintainer. > For example, here=E2=80=99s info from someone who got Guix to run on Wind= ows/WSL2: Contrary to WSL1, which was rather a misnomer for an alternative ABI-compat= ible implementation of Linux=C2=AE on top of Windows=CA=BC kernel, WSL2 ful= ly justifies its name: it=CA=BCs subsystem _for_ running Linux in it. In other words, what you=CA=BCve just said is: Guile does not need to suppo= rt Windows, because you can always run GNU/Linux in a virtual machine. I=CA=BCm afraid, such an attitude, if Guile is staking claim for being some= thing more than a DSL for defining distro packages, is a decade premature a= t best. > Running Guile alone should be easier. Notably, I would expect a bundle c= reated with =E2=80=98guix pack guile=E2=80=99 to Just Work on Windows. > > Does anyone have experience with that? I do not, but do not see any reason why it should not. If Guix pack would = fail to run on Ubuntu, because it is running on emulated hardware, it would= mean that Guix is really broken. And we know, that it=CA=BCs not. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iIMEARYIACsWIQRSX35grYEsI2F1K7TIsPhUjufz5wUCXxsepA0cZGFnQGdudWku b3JnAAoJEMiw+FSO5/Pnhc0BAOxxlYZz6IydNgVyxjUs/eNkNeUt4XwFmGYidXHl r6QVAP9knVdv4WPMJU/QnI66QfpGigRPmGqLJk4RLYre0wVfCQ== =2jpY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--