From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Baines Subject: Re: Guix on macOS Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 20:09:33 +0100 Message-ID: <20171012200933.1eb51a17@cbaines.net> References: <87bmldavre.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; boundary="Sig_/z/92568ea7MhlT9gFrIp9Vr"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46770) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2irZ-0002Vx-6I for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 15:09:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2irV-0005px-TT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 15:09:45 -0400 Received: from li622-129.members.linode.com ([212.71.249.129]:53938 helo=mira.cbaines.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2irV-0005pA-NQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 15:09:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87bmldavre.fsf@gmail.com> 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" To: Chris Marusich Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --Sig_/z/92568ea7MhlT9gFrIp9Vr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 20:29:57 -0700 Chris Marusich wrote: > Hi Guix, >=20 > I want to get Guix working on macOS. I recently had a need to do > this, and I was sad to find that although Nix works on macOS, Guix > isn't quite there yet. The manual makes it sound like this should be > fairly straightforward, and I intend to give it a shot [1]. But > before I begin, I wanted to know: has anyone done this already? Is > there interest? I've checked the email lists, and I didn't find much > discussion about this. Hey Chris, I'm interested! My workplace hands out laptops running MacOS, and while I don't use one, and most people using them do development in a Ubuntu VM, I'd love to have the option to help my colleagues use Guix on their machines. > I know a lot of developers who use macOS as their primary workstation, > and most of them use a combination of Homebrew [2] and manual > installation for package management. It'd be great if Guix were easy > to use on macOS! Not only is it the best package manager (of > course! :-)), but it would be a great way to encourage the use and > growth of free software among this group of people. >=20 > Additionally, if you're interested in helping out, please let me know. > To facilitate the work, I'm temporarily renting a Mac from MacStadium > [3] (it's just a weak little Mac Mini [4] for now), and it would be > trivial to give interested parties administrative access (via VNC and > SSH) to facilitate the work. I'd be interested in helping out, but I have never seriously used MacOS, so this would be quite a learning curve. Thanks, Chris --Sig_/z/92568ea7MhlT9gFrIp9Vr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQKTBAEBCgB9FiEEPonu50WOcg2XVOCyXiijOwuE9XcFAlnfve5fFIAAAAAALgAo aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldDNF ODlFRUU3NDU4RTcyMEQ5NzU0RTBCMjVFMjhBMzNCMEI4NEY1NzcACgkQXiijOwuE 9XfASQ/9EW5SyY4/TFeuchmsum91jGQrWV4BWUYKFzZt09EaTEu4v0LwPpr71Cew C/FfuathQPQiHeUzUjNpyNDBfgAexhENi/kloKFXtUQazRilWLdoO6j1nuY2JlhE eySLsVynfbuDXvqrcVQy6pVfH8mg4Gq7sXEXhd7Bjz/8ur18/yrJ22SD3uxQixpk HTYDFyCNGbjM93PPSUAgWgaczdwbrFM3lpDMEFo+/rQ0vwNS81VvFtJuEZX21iVy nf4k5mdiTQIu1NTRHiFXILb/EgTj6912vHoIXlFEBQ66U2neeajuHJddLVFVUnMp qpsjjyWrKzQjV6SoMzVT22wVU4OvwLlRKnP+rCfnMd7dPfxz9e6VRgzZ+xPyeflw Q+KrIPQwe+bLwTzf/RVMZ8DS8S+Kt0fjPfxAMrJd5mJjlmNGovR6JEfasr77YccU e8YJoU6ZvaNFEQFZbnMILHUQYQRN01nnPmaaTBGn87FmYYEW9trs0VWRD3n2p+Fa 806NA3MUVz3Z0ST6AOB9DWjYiXEXOuBJ6ADcCosCqmvmsC2ARRgHRKvBUB/5MmnQ MoF4XNzV24kwpV1fh2Zlu+LsplLCfQyJQe+8QpZk166jUDopYf3gdopmQ9Mq/RJP dX+Ld90lwwzgK6GK3CmwqXRI3EeUIB9u+8UlFPkdSyIZkojEdoE= =VJbg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/z/92568ea7MhlT9gFrIp9Vr--