Re: Guix paper

[Ludovic Courtès]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> I submitted (just in time!) a paper about Guix for ELS 2013 [1].
>
>   http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/tmp/guix-els2013-submitted.pdf

I’m happy to say that the paper was accepted.  :-)

I don’t think I can quote the review, so I’ll paraphrase.  On the
positive side, it says the paper is “easy to read”, that it’s an
interesting topic that applies functional programming to “real life”,
and that the motivations (providing a Scheme API & environment) are
clearly stated.

On the negative side, it notes that the examples are not always
convincing, such as the auto-updater.  The reviewer also considered that
illustrations of how to customize ‘gnu-build-system’ were lacking.

The role of the Nix daemon, and its connection with Guix was considered
unclear.  The reviewer did not understand how dependencies can be
expressed.

I’ll address these comments for the final version, which is due for next
month.

Ludo’.