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([2a02:908:c71:ba60:8e9:6995:cbb6:6057]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id b1sm15319917wmd.43.2020.11.02.02.03.53 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 02 Nov 2020 02:03:53 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Guix Front End (GUI) and making it more mainstream, popular in scientific community. To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=c3=a8s?= , Lars-Dominik Braun References: <86lffoyhb3.fsf@gmail.com> <20201030084922.GC3128@zpidnp36> <87wnz4pwvd.fsf@gnu.org> From: Taylan Kammer Message-ID: Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 11:03:51 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87wnz4pwvd.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::333; envelope-from=taylan.kammer@gmail.com; helo=mail-wm1-x333.google.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: No matching host in p0f cache. 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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" X-Scanner: ns3122888.ip-94-23-21.eu Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b=vHoS+vD/; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of guix-devel-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=guix-devel-bounces@gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -1.71 X-TUID: xjU6oJOkI/dn On 01.11.2020 22:53, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > Lars-Dominik Braun skribis: > >>> […] from my point of view, the good direction would be a “web-app frontend”, >>> similarly to git-annex-assistant [1]. This design is more flexible because >>> it could be used locally *and* could also be the front-end of some servers >>> (e.g., build farms). >> I have something like this on my todo list as well. It would probably be more >> of a manifest file editor though, since we use manifest files for >> reproducibility. > > Long ago Dave Thompson wrote guix-web, which allowed you to install > packages (you’d run it as your user): > > https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https://gitorious.org/guix-web/guix-web.git > > It’s an interesting approach with several advantages (in particular it > can be quickly developed), though I must say I remain unenthusiastic > about using web browsers for local GUIs. > > Thanks, > Ludo’. > While I empathize with concerns about web browsers, I have to admit that I'm absolutely blown away by Vue.js + BootstrapVue. (Using node & npm.) My other GUI development experiences include iOS, Android, and C#.NET. I found Vue.js with Bootstrap to be on a completely different level. Just wanted to throw this out there, even though I know it's heresy! - Taylan