Java development on GuixSD?

Java development on GuixSD?

[ng0]

Hi,

as I will need to develop with Java (and maybe JavaScript, although I
know both are different languages) in the near future, I was wondering
if there are already people in our community using GuixSD as their
development environment for this.

If you are using it, could you share some insights on workflow and
specific things you had to change compared to Debian, Gentoo and other
systems?
It wold be annoying to use some non-Guix/SD VM when the native system
would do it.

Thanks,
ng0

Re: Java development on GuixSD?

[Carlo Zancanaro]

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On Mon, Mar 06 2017, ng0 wrote:
> as I will need to develop with Java (and maybe JavaScript, although I
> know both are different languages) in the near future, I was wondering
> if there are already people in our community using GuixSD as their
> development environment for this.

I haven't done much Java development since moving to GuixSD
(coincidentally, not because of GuixSD), but I have tried to
write/compile some small things and it was a pain. Things should be a
fair bit easier now that we have some certificates in icedtea@3.

> If you are using it, could you share some insights on workflow and
> specific things you had to change compared to Debian, Gentoo and other
> systems?

It's mostly similar to what I used to do under Debian. The main thing is
that I have had to install maven from the official binary distribution
rather than through my package manager. Once I have maven installed I'm
able to do everything I'm used to with it.

Carlo

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