Thank you kindly for the reply! I have one question born out of my ignorance, so please be patient with me; I am looking at the various packages, which belong to various repos eg CRAN, TeXlive etc;
for the julia language..., is there a similar thing, or the packages are through the julia built in package manager only (although it seems a very decent one https://julialang.org/blog/2019/11/artifacts/)? And if so, is there a reason and is there any loss or conflict in relation to the guix package management interaction with these?
Apologies if these are stupid queries, I am not experienced and I'm sure there are simple answers
Pkg + BinaryBuilder -- The Next Generation<https://julialang.org/blog/2019/11/artifacts/>
Over the past few months, we have been iterating on and refining a design for Pkg in Julia 1.3+ to reason about binary objects that are not Julia packages. While the motivating application for this work has been improving the installation experience for binaries built with BinaryBuilder.jl, the artifacts subsystem is much more general and is widely applicable to all Julia packages.
julialang.org


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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr>
Sent: Wednesday 11 March 2020 14:23
To: bijan ghavami-kia <ghavamikia@hotmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: LHC for guixHPC?

Hi!

bijan ghavami-kia <ghavamikia@hotmail.com> skribis:

> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee8k97Rx3DA
> https://cds.cern.ch/record/2633268?ln=en
> https://gitlab.cern.ch/lhcb-nix
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335864271_Software_packaging_and_distribution_for_LHCb_using_Nix
>
> Just wanted to highlight this interesting work to guix, if it wasn't already known, in particular regards to the existing hpc project.
> The lhc seems to be looking for options to move away from rhel scientific os and cent os.
> I'm not sure if guix was on the radar for this particular researcher.
> Would the guix project team consider an outreach and discussion, particularly if theres anything to help him achieve his goals.
> Seems natural since guix is establishing in the hpc/ academic arena..

I agree!  As part of the Guix-HPC effort, Ricardo Wurmus and myself gave
a talk about Guix a couple of years ago at CERN, but CERN is vast and
the people we met are perhaps far away from those mentioned above.

If anyone has contact with folks at CERN, we can surely have a
discussion.  :-)

Thanks for the heads-up,
Ludo’.