Re: guix is the guildhall that we always wanted!

[Florian Paul Schmidt]

On 03/16/2017 11:24 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I think having repos maintained elsewhere is OKish, but it’s true that
> it requires people who maintain those repos to follow closely what’s
> going on in Guix proper because we’re not guaranteeing API stability.

Wouldn't taking the functional/reproducibility aspect one step further 
migitate this issue? I.e. maintainers of decentralized repos just need 
to have as input the precise guix version they are using?

For me using guix as a function to produce a piece of software just 
gains another argument: the guix version. If ignoring all the gory 
details and forgiving my ignorance is

guix-build: guix-version -> package-spec (+closure) -> binaries

applied to a particular guix-version gives

guix-build(guix-version): package (+closure) -> binaries

(It's "just" currying)

This of course introduces the problem of possibly having separate guix 
versions on a single system, possibly sharing a store, but it's an 
entertaining thought nonetheless, no?

Flo

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