Re: New to Guix

[Konrad Hinsen]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

 > Exactly.  We package only free software, as per the broad definition
 > that can be found at <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html>.

So it's pretty much the same rules as for Debian. Nice.

 > Since you’re already familiar with Nix already, you may like the ‘guix
 > import’ command (only briefly mentioned in the manual).  For instance,
 > you can run:
 > 
 >   guix import /path/to/nixpkgs foo

Good to know! On the other hand, it's probably more instructive to do
a few packages manually at first.


Nikita Karetnikov writes:

 > Sure, I send the output of 'git format-patch', for instance.

Fine.

 > What would you like to package?  (It would be great to discuss that to
 > avoid duplication.)

Stuff I use myself, meaning software at the intersection of "Python"
and "scientific computing". Unless someone is already working on it,
I'd choose NumPy as my first target. Python 3 would be another missing
piece I'd like to tackle.

 > Check this message [2] as well.  It would be great to stick to the plan,
 > but it's not mandatory.

That plan sounds reasonable, but I have no competence with that kind
of software. I'd rather start with packages that I know very well, to
the point of having contributed to their development. Right now, my
goal is "learn Guix", with package definitions produced as a side
effect. That's how side effects sneak into purely functional package
management ;-)

Konrad.