From: Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guix paper
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 22:25:31 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vc6gp2lg.fsf@karetnikov.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vc6g1hzd.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Sat, 18 May 2013 16:27:02 +0200")
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> I’ve pushed the paper under the new guix/maintenance.git repository
> [0].
I've spotted some typos.
> (p [This section describe the functional package management
> paradigm and its implementation in Nix. It then shows how Guix differs,
> and what the rationale is.])
The word "describe" should be changed to "describes."
> (p [Our goals when designing Guix was to provide interfaces
> ranging from Nix's low-level primitives such as ,(tt
> [derivation]) to high-level package declarations.
"Our goal" instead of "our goals."
> Input file names are similarly reified through the ,(tt [%build-inputs])
> variable (not shown here.)
Change to "variable (not shown here)."
> As an additional constraint, this extra layer should be efficient in
> space and time: package management tools need to be able to load and
> traverse a distribution consisting in thousands of packages.])
Replace "consisting in" with "consisting of."
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-18 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-17 22:44 Guix paper Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-18 3:48 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-03-18 10:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-11 19:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-11 19:57 ` Cyril Roelandt
2013-05-18 14:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-05-18 16:39 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-05-18 20:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-05-18 18:25 ` Nikita Karetnikov [this message]
2013-05-18 20:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-05-21 20:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
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