From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hellseher Subject: Re: Guix - installation script Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 21:51:12 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20170825193351.110a5221@cbaines.net> <878ti6a3lf.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56357) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dli4p-0007si-BU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2017 16:53:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dli4l-0000nT-3Y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2017 16:53:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <878ti6a3lf.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US 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: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=c3=a8s?= , Christopher Baines Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi, That's great, thank you! I'll go through all suggestions and make required changes as soon as possible. Do you want to move that script to separate stand along repository to make it easy for other to review it? Regards, Sharlatan On 26/08/17 13:57, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello! > > Christopher Baines skribis: > >> On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 23:49:50 +0100 >> Sharlatan Hellseher wrote: >> >>> I've found your project very interesting. I've played with >>> installation instruction but it has a lot of different steps, for >>> convenience purpose I've wrote installation script which goes through >>> all points of your guide. >>> >>> As far as I could say, there is no any official installation script >>> for Guix on existing OS. I would like take an opportunity to maintain >>> this process. >>> >>> If you could review it (Github) and give me some feedback I would be >>> appreciated. >>> >>> https://github.com/Hellseher/wds/blob/master/wds-guix-install.sh >> I haven't tried this yet, but it looks awesome! >> >> while I don't speak from the official maintainers, I'd be interested in >> seeing this being a part of Guix itself, which in my mind >> would enable things like distributing it as an installation >> method, and prominently mentioning it in the documentation. Would you >> (as the author) be ok with this? > This looks useful indeed! Perhaps what we could do is ship it along > with Guix, mention it in the “Binary Installation” section, and yet keep > the text of the instructions in that section, so that users have the > choice of using the script (and understanding what it does), or > following the instructions. > > Thoughts? > > Ludo’. >