From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Markus Gothe <nietzsche@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: GNU Guix 0.8.3 released
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 17:49:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150724154915.GA16705@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87egjzxtyr.fsf@elephly.net>
+1 Guix for bioinformatics
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 08:34:52AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> (Reduced the Cc)
>
> > Now to the cons (the prior was the pros): I donnu about Guile Scheme,
> > heard from former Cygnus ppl (including Ian Taylor IIRC) it was a
> > mistake.
>
> A language change is not going to happen.
>
> I should say that one of the main reasons why I took interest in Guix
> was Guile. As an Emacs user and Scheme fan I’m obviously biased towards
> '(list guile elisp racket), but I really think that using Guile makes
> Guix really attractive: package recipes are just Scheme objects
> that also contain quoted code to be run at build time.
>
> This approach of just using one flexible language makes it very easy to
> use Guix as a library, as shown by Guix Web, a web interface for Guix,
> or the Emacs user interface.
>
> I’m very glad Guix isn’t built on Python or JavaScript...
>
> > Is this why it doesn’t make any buzz or is it because you don’t try
> > hard enough to contact the papers??? Would be nice if someone signed
> > up to advocate Guix for distress etc…
>
> Guix is a pretty young project. I wouldn’t worry so much about adoption
> at this point.
>
> That said, Guix is becoming a serious contender for enabling
> reproducible scientific environments in bioinformatics. At the
> bioinformatics institute where I have my system administrator hat on
> we’re using Guix on two clusters. It helps that Guix now has packages
> for a great number of common scientific applications, libraries, and
> language environments.
>
> For bioinformatics people there is a separate mailing list on which Guix
> is discussed for use in bioinformatics environments:
> http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bio-packaging
>
> ~~ Ricardo
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-24 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-22 9:07 GNU Guix 0.8.3 released Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-22 22:31 ` Markus Gothe
2015-07-23 6:34 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-07-24 15:49 ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
2015-07-23 13:23 ` Daniel Pimentel
2015-07-23 13:27 ` Marko Rauhamaa
[not found] ` <87oafw755m.fsf@zigzag.favinet>
[not found] ` <878u70jkh1.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net>
2015-10-18 19:45 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-07-23 14:16 ` Vladimír Čunát
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