From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Gran Subject: Re: guix is the guildhall that we always wanted! Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 18:16:36 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <733768958.2314253.1489774596041@mail.yahoo.com> References: <87zigl3wph.fsf@pobox.com> <87a88kf8cu.fsf@gnu.org> <87fuicm6ck.fsf@igalia.com> <20170317173926.GA8947@mail.thebird.nl> Reply-To: Mike Gran Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51918) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cowV4-0004WE-4x for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 14:21:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cowUz-0005Yf-87 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 14:21:18 -0400 Received: from sonic307-4.consmr.mail.ne1.yahoo.com ([66.163.190.123]:40537) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cowUz-0005YF-3E for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 14:21:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170317173926.GA8947@mail.thebird.nl> 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: Pjotr Prins , Andy Wingo Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" , "guile-user@gnu.org" Hi all, While I don't have too much experience with the Guix, I have been around long enough to see multiple experiments with package management come and go. (I remember life before RPM. haha) As a general principle, any package manager will fail if it doesn't have developer excitement. And to be developer friendly, it has to allow software in all of its phases from a chaotic pre-alpha to a reliable release. I do rather like the idea of an easy push for new updates to alpha and beta-level packages. I also like the idea of some curating or labeling or rating of packages that describe themselves as stable or complete. Actually, I should be more forceful: without allowing for both alpha-level chaos and a stable central corpus of packages, any new package management experiment will fail. My two cents, Thanks, Mike Gran