From: George Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>,
guix-blog@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Blog: Guix packaging tutorial
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 09:20:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cucsh1e546j.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8hu9fry.fsf@gnu.org>
This LGTM except ... the first paragraphs (quoted below) are an
advertisement. This is out of place in a tutorial. So, IMO, they should
simply be removed.
> GNU Guix stands out as the *hackable* package manager, mostly because
> it uses [GNU Guile](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/), a powerful
> high-level programming language, one of the
> [Scheme](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_(programming_language))
> dialects from the [Lisp
> family](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)).
>
> Package definitions are also written in Scheme, which empowers Guix in
> some very unique ways, unlike most other package managers that use
> shell scripts or simple languages.
>
> - Use functions, structures, macros and all of Scheme expressiveness
> for your package definitions.
>
> - Inheritance makes it easy to customize a package by inheriting from
> it and modifying only what is needed.
>
> - Batch processing: the whole package collection can be parsed,
> filtered and processed. Building a headless server with all graphical
> interfaces stripped out? It's possible. Want to rebuild everything
> from source using specific compiler optimization flags? Pass the
> `#:make-flags "..."` argument to the list of packages. It wouldn't be
> a stretch to think [Gentoo USE
> flags](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/USE_flag) here, but this goes even
> further: the changes don't have to be thought out beforehand by the
> packager, they can be *programmed* by the user!
If you don't remove them, then at least move the paragraph quoted below
to the top of the piece ...
> The following tutorial covers all the basics around package creation
> with Guix. It does not assume much knowledge of the Guix system nor
> of the Lisp language. The reader is only expected to be familiar with
> the command line and to have some basic programming knowledge.
... and preface the above mentioned paragraphs with something like ...
# Guix is a unique approach to package management
HTH - George
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-10 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-13 10:50 Blog: Guix packaging tutorial Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-13 11:16 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-09-13 11:53 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-09-13 12:04 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-09-13 19:11 ` Andreas Enge
2018-09-14 11:07 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-14 11:33 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-09-24 17:00 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-24 17:37 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-27 13:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-27 17:34 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-29 16:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-29 21:18 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-09-30 19:01 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-30 19:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-30 21:14 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-02 12:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-02 16:02 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-02 19:46 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-10-03 8:10 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-03 18:16 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-08 12:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-08 15:18 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-10-08 18:41 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-08 19:06 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-08 19:59 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-10-08 22:09 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-08 22:33 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-08 23:45 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-10 11:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-10 13:20 ` George Clemmer [this message]
2018-10-10 13:31 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-10 14:13 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-10-10 14:00 ` Guix packaging tutorial is on-line! Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-10 14:12 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-10 15:07 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-10-10 16:09 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-11 13:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-11 16:34 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-11 16:51 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-15 12:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-15 12:39 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-20 19:58 ` Blog: Guix packaging tutorial Divan
2018-10-21 10:30 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-21 11:21 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-22 20:40 ` Divan Santana
2018-10-22 21:11 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-26 10:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-26 10:28 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-27 11:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-10-08 22:54 Benjamin Slade
2018-10-08 23:05 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-09 0:04 ` Benjamin Slade
2018-10-10 9:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-11 1:38 ` Benjamin Slade
2018-10-11 9:37 ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-10-11 13:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-12 1:05 ` Benjamin Slade
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