Re: Guix - installation script

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hello!

Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:

> On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 23:49:50 +0100
> Sharlatan Hellseher <sharlatanus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've found your project very interesting. I've played with
>> installation instruction but it has a lot of different steps, for
>> convenience purpose I've wrote installation script which goes through
>> all points of your guide.
>> 
>> As far as I could say, there is no any official installation script
>> for Guix on existing OS. I would like take an opportunity to maintain
>> this process.
>> 
>> If you could review it (Github) and give me some feedback I would be
>> appreciated.
>> 
>> https://github.com/Hellseher/wds/blob/master/wds-guix-install.sh
>
> I haven't tried this yet, but it looks awesome!
>
> while I don't speak from the official maintainers, I'd be interested in
> seeing this being a part of Guix itself, which in my mind
> would enable things like distributing it as an installation
> method, and prominently mentioning it in the documentation. Would you
> (as the author) be ok with this?

This looks useful indeed!  Perhaps what we could do is ship it along
with Guix, mention it in the “Binary Installation” section, and yet keep
the text of the instructions in that section, so that users have the
choice of using the script (and understanding what it does), or
following the instructions.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.