Re: Towards reproducibly Jupyter notebooks with Guix-Jupyter

[Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>]

Hi Ludo,

> (Though printing addresses in a REPL isn’t “bad practice” IMO, it’s just
> that it doesn’t mesh well with the intended use of notebooks.)

And that's exactly the difference between a REPL and a reproducible
document. Unfortunately, Jupyter tries to be both and thus never
explains the differences clearly.

> At the API level, there’s ‘inferior-for-channels’ which does that +
> registers a GC root + maintains a cache so that the second time you use
> a given instance of Guix it’s immediately available.

Just what I need...

> Now, I think you can safely use it in your code, I don’t foresee any
> significant change at this point.
>
> As to whether you’d want to talk about it in the MOOC for instance, you

Certainly not. I just want to be sure that the functionality won't go
away. If the API changes a bit, that can be fixed.

I'll start playing with this...

Cheers,
  Konrad.