From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 21:36:19 +0100 Message-ID: <87bn7psjss.fsf@gnu.org> References: <953f16876af34ea59b526b7f35482e72@exchsrv2.sgc.loc> 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]:34737) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTF1g-0001wv-7l for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:36:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTF1b-00062j-Eg for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:36:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: <953f16876af34ea59b526b7f35482e72@exchsrv2.sgc.loc> (Malcolm Cook's message of "Mon, 8 Feb 2016 19:43:25 +0000") 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "Cook, Malcolm" Cc: 'Guix-devel' , "'bio-packaging@mailman.open-bio.org'" "Cook, Malcolm" skribis: > I have been asked to write up an argument for the advantages that GNU Gui= x confers for deploying linux software, especially scientific computing and= including bioinformatics software. >=20=09 > To that end I have written up this document=20 > > https://github.com/malcook/sce/blob/master/MakingTheCase.org Good idea, and nice work! Perhaps it would be worth mentioning =E2=80=98guix environment=E2=80=99 and =E2=80=98--search-paths=E2=80=99. But really, I don=E2=80=99t have much to add to Ricardo=E2=80=99s detailed = review. :-) Thank you, Ludo=E2=80=99.