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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: "Kyle Meyer" <kyle@kyleam.com>,
	gwl-devel@gnu.org, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to install GWL?
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 01:22:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3okZ0j3CMT0t9L1YXPi8sCXrJJX1L5M6pfHTBvh3r-0Y5_mQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877e10rflw.fsf@elephly.net>

Hi Ricardo,

On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 at 20:36, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:

> Oh, I didn’t think of inferior number 1 at all, but that’s a good
> point.  We could arrange for the build-time modules of Guix to be made
> available at runtime, independent of the version of Guix used to run
> “guix workflow”.  Then we need to build packages with an inferior Guix,
> which is identical to the Guix used to run “guix workflow”.

Yes something along these lines.
Let restart the discussion after the new release.
I mean, the next release could still use the old mechanism because it
is more about the description language itself than the version of the
packages.


> (guix inferior) does not allow us to do this yet.  The
> gexp->derivation-in-inferior procedure requires a derivation that
> returns some variant of Guix — we can’t just give it the directory name
> of the invoking command.  I think this might be a good addition to (guix
> inferior).

Let open a discussion on guix-devel to collect some ideas. WDYT?


All the best,
simon

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-10  0:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-22 21:55 How to install GWL? Ricardo Wurmus
2020-01-23  1:15 ` Kyle Meyer
2020-01-23 10:06   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-02-01  9:26     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-02-05 14:34       ` zimoun
2020-02-05 19:36         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-02-10  0:22           ` zimoun [this message]
2020-01-23  1:17 ` zimoun
2020-01-23 11:14 ` Roel Janssen
2020-01-23 11:24   ` zimoun
2020-01-23 13:02     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-01-23 14:18       ` zimoun
2020-01-23 13:12   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-01-31  9:16 ` zimoun
2020-01-31 11:07   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-02-01 11:49     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-05 13:50       ` zimoun
2020-02-05 13:46     ` zimoun

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