From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Guix as GSOC Project Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:34:35 +0200 Message-ID: <87d2tjmzvo.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mwsq44a6.fsf@gnu.org> <87sj2hwjo3.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41125) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UV6Ox-0005Cr-KS for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:34:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UV6Os-0000HH-ED for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:34:51 -0400 Received: from [2a01:e0b:1:123:ca0a:a9ff:fe03:271e] (port=59826 helo=xanadu.aquilenet.fr) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UV6Os-0000EM-50 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:34:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Ashish Gupta's message of "Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:10:35 +0530") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ashish Gupta Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org Ashish Gupta skribis: >> Hmm yes. The idea here was rather to have a user interface, in Emacs, >> to manage packages with Guix. Are you familiar with package.el? That= =E2=80=99s >> the kind of UI we=E2=80=99d aim for. >> >> What=E2=80=99s your experience writing Emacs Lisp code? > > I have read about package.el , but as far as making Emacs Lisp scripts go, > i've not really given it a try. I will shortly , once i get enough grasp = on > Scheme to understand it .I have done UI designing before ( in Qt/GtK), so= i > guess it should be easy to build on it. > I have started with SICP and going through the basics. Great. Regarding package.el, you can try M-x package-list-packages in Emacs 24.x so see what it=E2=80=99s like. >> > *Another idea i had was about a Hotspot access point (Wireless).* >> >> What do you mean? > > I was thinking about a system tool/software that could easily enough crea= te > Infrastructural WiFi Access Points. Interesting, but only remotely related to Guix. ;-) > I installed Guile 2.0, (i had version 1.8 on arch and that wouldnt go to > 2.0 ) , so i went to the git repository and cloned and compiled, is there > already some way to watch a git repository for a newer version at all > times? As in, one package is kept synced with the git repository instead = of > the official repository. Can we already do that in Guix in a more > convenient manner for the user? > Im referring to something like > guix-package install guile > which would also check if the git repository has a more recent version of > the same package. So currently we have something that looks for the latest upstream release (cf. ). It would be doable to check the upstream version control repository, but I don=E2=80=99t think it=E2=80=99s a good idea to emphasize such a feature = as long as there are upstream releases. > Right now the ./configure gives me (im on Arch x86_64): > > ************************************************************************ > No package 'guile-2.0' found > > Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you > installed software in a non-standard prefix. > > Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GUILE_CFLAGS > and GUILE_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. > See the pkg-config man page for more details. > ************************************************************************ > > It's still asking for Guile-2.0 , the binaries i have in /usr/bin and > /usr/local/bin have versions 2.1.0. Did you eventually solve that? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.