From: Luis Felipe <sirgazil@zoho.com>
To: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>,
guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: Differentiate products more clearly (Cycle 01)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 21:52:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00e2b17b-75d1-81b0-d2a5-8215b96bd9f6@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86bkd4clha.fsf@gmail.com>
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Hi Simon,
El 12/10/23 a las 8:07, Simon Tournier escribió:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 at 00:15, Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This is a proposal to help differentiate Guix, the package manager,
>> from Guix System.
> I agree with this proposal.
>
> For what it is worth, I remember a discussion past year at 10 Years of
> Guix with researchers – interested by reproducible research and not
> really knowing what Guix is – and after some search engine queries, they
> ended on the website guix.gnu.org. From the information there, 1. they
> did not get what Guix is and 2. they had the feeling that Guix is not
> for their tasks. Your proposal really helps here!
Glad to hear that :)
>> Mockup:
>> https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/downloads/temp/guix-website-2023-09-21-LF/home-page.pdf
> Well, comments.
>
> 1.
> Instead of replicate or reproduce that have different meaning depending
> on communities, I prefer to use the weak-defined ’redeploy’ which cover the
> idea.
>
> “and make these eaiser to redeploy in one or many devices, and over time.”
>
> For instance, the word “replicate” could confuse this community who
> expect the word “reproduce”.
>
> “What’s the difference between replication and reproduction?“
> https://rescience.github.io/faq/
>
> Well, for instance:
>
> “Reproducibility vs. Replicability: A Brief History of a Confused Terminology”
> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5778115/
Thanks, I'm taking note of this.
> 2.
> I would not write “without superuser privileges” since you need at least
> once – for installing. Hum, I have no alternative wording.
Right. I've been living in the Guix System for so long now...
>
> 3.
> I would not write “50 years later”. Instead, just “Get the same
> environment in the future”.
The reason I used the specific number was to make it clearer that Guix
should allow reproducible outputs for generations to come, instead of
just some near future.
> 4.
> How to go from “Guix Package Manager” to “Guix System” and vice-versa?
I don't think I understand. Do you mean how would people go from the
package manager home page to the operating system page?
>> Looking forward to your comments,
> Well, from my perspective, your proposal makes clearer information about
> the different Guix.
Thanks for checking it out, Simon :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-12 21:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-12 0:15 Proposal: Differentiate products more clearly (Cycle 01) Luis Felipe
2023-10-12 1:54 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2023-10-12 21:23 ` Luis Felipe
2023-10-13 7:24 ` Simon Tournier
2023-10-12 8:07 ` Simon Tournier
2023-10-12 21:52 ` Luis Felipe [this message]
2023-10-12 12:28 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2023-10-12 16:58 ` Simon Tournier
2023-10-12 22:32 ` Luis Felipe
2023-10-12 20:30 ` pinoaffe
2023-11-01 16:01 ` Luis Felipe
2023-11-02 13:18 ` pinoaffe
2023-10-13 9:41 ` Wilko Meyer
2023-10-15 13:11 ` Luis Felipe
2023-10-26 15:07 ` Luis Felipe
2023-11-16 14:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
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