emacs-guix

emacs-guix

[Christopher Howard]

Hi, I was wondering if there is a specific person here who focuses on the emacs-guix package — development or maintainence. It seems like my bug reports for that don't usually get any responses, so I was starting to work on troubleshooting my own bug reports. But was wondering if there is somebody who oversees that package, or has their own dev branch, or whatever such that it would be important to collaborate with them on troubleshooting and patches. I CC'd the e-mail address I found for the Emacs Team.

I'm not really interesting much in being a guix developer right now, but I've gained enough proficiency in Emacs and elisp to at least troubleshoot/investigate. The bug I am focusing currently is 73462.

I don't know if the original emacs-guix developer (Alex Kost) is still involved and/or wants to be CC'd.

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Re: emacs-guix

[Liliana Marie Prikler]

Am Montag, dem 30.09.2024 um 10:10 -0800 schrieb Christopher Howard:
> Hi, I was wondering if there is a specific person here who focuses on
> the emacs-guix package — development or maintainence. It seems like
> my bug reports for that don't usually get any responses, so I was
> starting to work on troubleshooting my own bug reports. But was
> wondering if there is somebody who oversees that package, or has
> their own dev branch, or whatever such that it would be important to
> collaborate with them on troubleshooting and patches. I CC'd the e-
> mail address I found for the Emacs Team.
If you wish to update the emacs-guix package (or patching, etc.), then
yeah, CC'ing emacs-team for faster processing is the way to go.  That
said, we don't typically know about every emacs package in there, much
less their intrinsics.

Regarding the functionality of emacs-guix, as far as I know, the
derivation mode still works, but the UI etc. has a hard time otherwise.

> I'm not really interesting much in being a guix developer right now,
> but I've gained enough proficiency in Emacs and elisp to at least
> troubleshoot/investigate. The bug I am focusing currently is 73462.
> 
> I don't know if the original emacs-guix developer (Alex Kost) is
> still involved and/or wants to be CC'd.
It is a known bug and has been for some time.  Sadly, no one's
submitted a fix yet.

Cheers

Re: emacs-guix

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

On lun., 30 sept. 2024 at 10:10, Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> wrote:

> I'm not really interesting much in being a guix developer right now,
> but I've gained enough proficiency in Emacs and elisp to at least
> troubleshoot/investigate. The bug I am focusing currently is 73462. 

As far as I remember, the package Emacs-Guix needs some love.  The
maintenance had been moved around 2020, see:

    [sr #110376] Creating an Emacs-Guix Git repository for Guix
    Ludovic Courtès <INVALID.NOREPLY@gnu.org>
    Mon, 16 Nov 2020 04:14:29 -0500
    id:20201116-101427.sv15145.79673@savannah.nongnu.org
    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-11
    https://yhetil.org/guix/20201116-101427.sv15145.79673@savannah.nongnu.org

And since then, the package has entered in low maintenance mode.  From
my understanding, the package Emacs-Guix is looking for
co-maintainers. :-)

Cheers,
simon