From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: GNU Guix 0.8.3 released Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 17:49:15 +0200 Message-ID: <20150724154915.GA16705@thebird.nl> References: <87y4i8d0gt.fsf@gnu.org> <87egjzxtyr.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56124) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZIfF7-000678-Uq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 11:50:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZIfF2-0005hW-Cl for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 11:50:37 -0400 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([95.154.246.10]:51243) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZIfF2-0005ed-0F for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 11:50:32 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87egjzxtyr.fsf@elephly.net> 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Markus Gothe +1 Guix for bioinformatics On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 08:34:52AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > (Reduced the Cc) >=20 > > 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. >=20 > A language change is not going to happen. >=20 > 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=E2=80=99m obviously biase= d 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > I=E2=80=99m very glad Guix isn=E2=80=99t built on Python or JavaScript.= .. >=20 > > Is this why it doesn=E2=80=99t make any buzz or is it because you don= =E2=80=99t try > > hard enough to contact the papers??? Would be nice if someone signed > > up to advocate Guix for distress etc=E2=80=A6 >=20 > Guix is a pretty young project. I wouldn=E2=80=99t worry so much about= adoption > at this point. >=20 > 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=E2=80=99re using Guix on two clusters. It helps that Guix now has p= ackages > for a great number of common scientific applications, libraries, and > language environments. >=20 > For bioinformatics people there is a separate mailing list on which Gui= x > is discussed for use in bioinformatics environments: > http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bio-packaging >=20 > ~~ Ricardo >=20 >=20 --=20