From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Hinsen Subject: Re: Guix on macOS Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:08:15 +0200 Message-ID: <652a2445-19b1-99bc-7f71-46f55ec0de85@fastmail.net> References: <87bmldavre.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50210) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2YXX-0004qw-T2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 04:08:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2YXS-0002zg-TP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 04:08:23 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:57521) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2YXS-0002yE-N7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 04:08:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87bmldavre.fsf@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US 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: guix-devel@gnu.org On 12/10/2017 05:29, Chris Marusich wrote: > But before I > begin, I wanted to know: has anyone done this already? Is there > interest? Interest, yes, from at least one more person: me. But I suspect this is a really big effort, in particular to boostrap the whole system based on Apple's XCode, which is all you can count on initially on a Mac. In other words, the issue is not porting the package manager but porting the package definitions. Konrad.