From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Ruby install
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 10:29:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140505082922.GB31474@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wqe0ps8d.fsf@gnu.org>
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 10:03:30AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > I am really impressed with GUIX, and I think it is a no-brainer to use
> > a real functional programming language for this.
I was imprecise here. It is my first real foray into LISP. What I
meant is that it is great to use a real programming language with the
most important functional characteristics of recursion and anonymous
functions :)
I believe much of Nix could be greatly simplified if they had opted
for this route. Did you see NixOS is speeding up the ranks in
distrowatch? I bet that is partly due to GUIX.
> > Thanks Ludo and
> > others! I just wish I could use GUIX on servers where I don't have (and
> > won't get) root access. Or is there a way? With Nix I could run as a
> > normal user.
>
> It???s the same as Nix, which means that if the daemon cannot run as root,
> then it???s usable in a ???degraded??? mode (info "(guix) Build Environment
> Setup").
That is good news. Anyone here using it as such?
Pj.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-05 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-04 17:51 Ruby install Pjotr Prins
2014-05-05 8:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-05-05 8:29 ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
2014-05-05 11:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-04 21:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-05 9:57 ` Pjotr Prins
2014-10-27 4:58 ` guile ERROR: Unbound variable: sha256 Pjotr Prins
2014-10-27 9:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-27 12:29 ` [PATCH] New ruby package Pjotr Prins
2014-09-27 13:06 ` Pjotr Prins
2014-09-27 13:44 ` David Thompson
2014-09-28 4:00 ` David Thompson
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