From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>
Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New to Guix
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:30:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqqbe2yz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20908.28905.25897.521567@Konrad-Hinsens-MacBook-Pro.local> (Konrad Hinsen's message of "Mon, 3 Jun 2013 12:33:13 +0200")
Hi!
Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> skribis:
> I finally found some time to test-install Guix and so far I like what
> I have seen. I had been playing with Nix in the past, so much of Guix
> is not completely new to me, and Scheme instead of Nix+bash is a
> welcome relief ;-)
Heh, welcome! :-)
> I will probably write a couple of package definitions in the course of
> my further explorations, so I wonder how to contribute them to the
> project. Is it OK to post them to this mailing list?
Yes, at least at the beginning. The ‘HACKING’ file has more info
regarding commit access and our policy.
> I also wonder if there are any conditions as to what software is
> acceptable for the package collection. From a quick look at what's
> there already, it seems everything with a reasonably free license is
> welcome. Did I guess right?
Exactly. We package only free software, as per the broad definition
that can be found at <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html>.
Since you’re already familiar with Nix already, you may like the ‘guix
import’ command (only briefly mentioned in the manual). For instance,
you can run:
guix import /path/to/nixpkgs foo
and that will import and convert the Nixpkgs definition for ‘foo’ to Guix.
However, please make sure to check the license information.
Happy hacking!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-03 13:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-03 10:33 New to Guix Konrad Hinsen
2013-06-03 13:30 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-06-03 18:16 ` Jason Self
2013-06-03 22:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-06-03 22:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-06-04 6:12 ` Konrad Hinsen
2013-06-04 7:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-06-04 8:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-06-03 14:05 ` Nikita Karetnikov
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