From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Marusich Subject: Guix on macOS Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 20:29:57 -0700 Message-ID: <87bmldavre.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51974) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2UCD-0000h6-7x for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2017 23:30:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2UCC-0003iK-47 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2017 23:30:05 -0400 Received: from mail-pf0-x22e.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c00::22e]:47543) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2UCB-0003hs-Un for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2017 23:30:04 -0400 Received: by mail-pf0-x22e.google.com with SMTP id z11so3092159pfk.4 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2017 20:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from garuda ([2601:602:9d02:4725:6495:ba21:1ebe:620a]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id f10sm1418031pgr.8.2017.10.11.20.30.00 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Wed, 11 Oct 2017 20:30:01 -0700 (PDT) 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 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Guix, 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. 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. 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. Footnotes:=20 [1] info '(guix) Porting' [2] https://brew.sh/ [3] https://www.macstadium.com/ [4] https://www.macstadium.com/mac-mini/ =2D-=20 Chris --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEy/WXVcvn5+/vGD+x3UCaFdgiRp0FAlne4bUACgkQ3UCaFdgi Rp3+3w/+PzSpgXIjMlBqUq2v0WUbsjAri5B0c12hXoR3hWqbQfnNoUzTv77k2giN cCS5oOwPLXSIV64g54FrxD58v5afCkmkku4Yu3KDQN24ljx0GYwKpw+l5ZUsP3/R M5axCTvplXit56Uj6shCfYvpw2wViftIYgf+eX1JXB0WQI875BsYFBnzasoEkr7r P/uJ71DpYrbnO7o3kH1nAbkqBfnV/djpp2w5N5Wh3MS1SMihYeBYvZIy91BminEv FowDtIzEp2M47gpBLbTG3IYDzz7UvtBcc+dv48eJSqpRESzpsHsUTh/rOflcMJCR bf/t/23n2UwfiGjDPsXlkCqRcEulOVjpsqbH3qU84BRRrrJlltKicM6u8xYqUs5s BgaHFDssm15eQRZ3AOeIjVedct59gfA5AgVR+SqhSlBStYaj3jdAI11NXIUQ0VNZ g+34FVaNwYGq5NqMmPEZJFcoDkw5YXqn3Sd7J/K6JGPNKmGa9ct6weZfgrrZq5/t U+20L9ZGVnkSVLbkzxV+JZIYaAY9bNbUgVggUEuuDLleoziWs6vg+TWUGhpkixtz CtkvM80dBiEECzf4zECjZOdbwgoP/XlK1ocaZHuNpk/GqjNiRuL4cnX6NLdPIPs/ FlbLF82n/tB0DTQeuVLT69/LwPBQEYKC8jBEcisUMuIShfqRQyk= =uDbp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--