Re: Idea: Install script to better support improving contributor-friendliness of projects

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> Никита Чураев <lamefun.x0r@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Here's how I want to use Guix and it is to increase
>> contributor-friendliness of a project, so that the user can simply run
>> a distribution-independent command to install all dependencies without
>> having to hunt for them with `apt` and `dnf` manually.
>>
>> Unfortunately, Guix itself is not very easy to install, and the
>> instructions are full of rather technical stuff like 'systemd' and
>> 'upstart'.
>>
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html

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> However, if there's sufficient interest, and if we could produce a
> sufficiently robust "auto-install" script

Related to that, someone on IRC suggested removing the “#” from the
shell snippets at
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html>,
for easier copy/pasting.

I think I’ll go ahead and do that if nobody objects.

Thanks,
Ludo’.