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Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally
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Joshua Branson |
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Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally |
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Fri, 31 Aug 2018 10:44:31 -0400 |
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<address@hidden> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:42:51PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
>>
>> Joshua Branson <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > It gets really interesting when you start telling these processes to
>> > transform the underlying data. They currently have a translator that
>> > translates an xml file into a directory tree. Imagine searching an html
>> > file with the "find" tool. Wouldn't that be something different?
>>
>> Or imagine installing a packages from remote servers with shell globbing:
>>
>> pkg --install /http://ftp.gnu.org/packages/*/*.deb
>>
>> Last time I used the Hurd, some variant of this actually worked.
>
> Like this (note: my comments interspersed, prefixed with ###)
>
> ### note the option '-s' -- I don't want to clobber my box!
>
> address@hidden:~$ apt-get -s install '*php*'
>
I didn't know that debian support installing all "php" packages like that!
> What's my point?
>
> - Debian has some headstart: it's absolutely worth learning
> from them
What things can guix do like debian does?
> - Perhaps other distros also know how to play this trick
> - Selecting packages by name via some string matching may have
> ummm... strange consequences ;-D
>
> Don't get me wrong: I do think Guix goes into the absolutely right
> direction, as opposed to the current cloudy container craze.
>
> Cheers
> -- tomás
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, (continued)
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, Amirouche Boubekki, 2018/08/31
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, Amirouche Boubekki, 2018/08/27
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, John Cowan, 2018/08/27
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, Joshua Branson, 2018/08/29
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2018/08/30
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, tomas, 2018/08/31
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally,
Joshua Branson <=
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, Joshua Branson, 2018/08/31
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2018/08/27
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, Joshua Branson, 2018/08/29
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2018/08/30
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, Joshua Branson, 2018/08/31