From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julien Lepiller Subject: Feedback from JRES in Dijon Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:16:23 +0100 Message-ID: <8D474474-AF4C-4B03-9D38-3BB089BEE4EB@lepiller.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----PQA2QREKMN3ACQ30V2UR4JAUJGCOT8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48122) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1icrwu-00031B-Ou for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2019 09:17:46 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1icrwt-0005TQ-2H for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2019 09:17:44 -0500 Received: from lepiller.eu ([89.234.186.109]:59608) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1icrwp-0002NX-MS for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2019 09:17:42 -0500 Received: from lepiller.eu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lepiller.eu (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 75bf3637 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2019 14:16:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lepiller.eu (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 380b76be (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256:NO) for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2019 14:16:27 +0000 (UTC) List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org ------PQA2QREKMN3ACQ30V2UR4JAUJGCOT8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Guix! I presented the project at JRES yesterday and had lots of questions and re= actions=2E One person was wondering whether Guix would be a good idea for there clust= er=2E I said yes then I redirected them to guix hpc=2E Another wanted to have some kind of doi for guix describe + manifest (a be= tter UI and easier thing to cite in a paper I suppose)=2E Another was asking about the possibility ofusing Guix to have multiple ker= nels and boot a debian with guix's kernel (so as to choose a compatible ker= nel at boot iiuc)=2E The person I talked to at lunch was a bit skeptical about Guix=2E They hav= e it and Nix, with module on their cluster=2E They told me they were more c= oncerned about replicability than reproducibility=2E Also, their users are = lost between the options, they have trouble getting help on guix from their= admins and they end up using conda, yet another tool ^^"=2E That's only a few conversations that really marked me, but I had more, and= I'll hopefully have more this afternoon and tomorrow=2E Marc, who organised the guile and guix days in Strasbourg last summer is h= ere too and said he will write a tutorial on using vin to program in scheme= =2E I'm lookinq forward to reading it! ------PQA2QREKMN3ACQ30V2UR4JAUJGCOT8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Guix!

I presented the project at JRES yesterday and had lots of q= uestions and reactions=2E

One person was wondering whether Guix woul= d be a good idea for there cluster=2E I said yes then I redirected them to = guix hpc=2E

Another wanted to have some kind of doi for guix describ= e + manifest (a better UI and easier thing to cite in a paper I suppose)=2E=

Another was asking about the possibility ofusing Guix to have multi= ple kernels and boot a debian with guix's kernel (so as to choose a compati= ble kernel at boot iiuc)=2E

The person I talked to at lunch was a bi= t skeptical about Guix=2E They have it and Nix, with module on their cluste= r=2E They told me they were more concerned about replicability than reprodu= cibility=2E Also, their users are lost between the options, they have troub= le getting help on guix from their admins and they end up using conda, yet = another tool ^^"=2E

That's only a few conversations that really mark= ed me, but I had more, and I'll hopefully have more this afternoon and tomo= rrow=2E

Marc, who organised the guile and guix days in Strasbourg la= st summer is here too and said he will write a tutorial on using vin to pro= gram in scheme=2E I'm lookinq forward to reading it! ------PQA2QREKMN3ACQ30V2UR4JAUJGCOT8--