From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: myglc2 Subject: Re: =?utf-8?Q?What=E2=80=99s?= next? Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 20:09:24 -0400 Message-ID: <86wp8z6w97.fsf@gmail.com> References: <877f16z9eo.fsf@gnu.org> <874lwaql17.fsf@gnu.org> <87y3tmuizi.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]:56444) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFUj3-0006wC-O6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 May 2017 20:09:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFUj0-0003J0-IV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 May 2017 20:09:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87y3tmuizi.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Wed, 24 May 2017 21:56:17 +0200") 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel On 05/24/2017 at 21:56 Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Catonano writes: > >> 2017-05-24 18:25 GMT+02:00 Jan Nieuwenhuizen : > [=E2=80=A6] >>> A friend of mine is having a second look at Guix (not SD yet) and one of >>> the most confusing things initially is `guix pull'. "When/how do I use >>> that," he asks...and I can only say: I'm not using that...I think we >>> want this to work--or something like this, we talked about this at >>> FOSDEM, but AFAIK everyone is using Guix with Git. >>> >>> He responds with: then *why* is it in the manual. I have no answer. >>> Possibly I'm wrong and/or my information is outdated? >>> >> >> This is an important point for me too >> >> I realized that everyone is using git and not guix pull just yesterday > [=E2=80=A6] >> I think this is a problem. It' s unfair to newcomers and it damages Guix= as >> a project because it makes the learning curve steeper with not so much o= f a >> point why. > > There are two reasons why developers use Guix from git: > > * it allows them to add new packages and features to Guix itself. This > is something =E2=80=9Cguix pull=E2=80=9D doesn=E2=80=99t support well. > > * it doesn=E2=80=99t require compiling all of Guix on each update. Hmm, that explains how it feels. Why doesn't it just pull the compiled guix= files?