From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: How to package software for guix? Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 23:13:23 +0100 Message-ID: <20141104221323.GA29579@debian> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40685) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XlmM8-0000Oh-LJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2014 17:13:46 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XlmLy-0004oq-5P for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2014 17:13:40 -0500 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.24]:62366) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XlmLx-0004nw-Rp for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2014 17:13:30 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Omar Radwan Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 02:06:56PM -0800, Omar Radwan wrote: > I wanna get into guix development. Since I don't know any programming, I would > be most useful in packaging software for guix. I want to package lxqt. I know > qt5 is in the guix repo. So it wouldn't be very hard to package it, I think. > But how do you package and upload software to the repo? Do I have to sign up on > anything or get a gnu email or something? Just try to package something and send the result for constructive criticism to the list. I would suggest to start with something simple, not a complete desktop environment. You may wish to have a look at https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/guix-ghm-andreas-20130823.pdf , where I explain how to create simple and slightly less simple packages. Andreas