Re: Guix as GSOC Project

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ashish Gupta <address@hidden> skribis:

>> Hmm yes.  The idea here was rather to have a user interface, in Emacs,
>> to manage packages with Guix.  Are you familiar with package.el?  That’s
>> the kind of UI we’d aim for.
>>
>> What’s your experience writing Emacs Lisp code?
>
> I have read about package.el , but as far as making Emacs Lisp scripts go,
> i've not really given it a try. I will shortly , once i get enough grasp on
> Scheme to understand it .I have done UI designing before ( in Qt/GtK), so i
> guess it should be easy to build on it.
> I have started with SICP and going through the basics.

Great.

Regarding package.el, you can try M-x package-list-packages in Emacs
24.x so see what it’s like.

>> > *Another idea i had was about a Hotspot access point (Wireless).*
>>
>> What do you mean?
>
> I was thinking about a system tool/software that could easily enough create
> Infrastructural WiFi Access Points.

Interesting, but only remotely related to Guix.  ;-)

> I installed Guile 2.0, (i had version 1.8 on arch and that wouldnt go to
> 2.0 ) , so i went to the git repository and cloned and compiled, is there
> already some way to watch a git repository for a newer version at all
> times? As in, one package is kept synced with the git repository instead of
> the official repository. Can we already do that in Guix in a more
> convenient manner for the user?
> Im referring to something like
>            guix-package install guile
> which would also check if the git repository has a more recent version of
> the same package.

So currently we have something that looks for the latest upstream
release (cf. 
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-03/msg00032.html>).

It would be doable to check the upstream version control repository, but
I don’t think it’s a good idea to emphasize such a feature as long as
there are upstream releases.

> Right now the ./configure gives me (im on Arch x86_64):
>
> ************************************************************************
> No package 'guile-2.0' found
>
> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
>
> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GUILE_CFLAGS
> and GUILE_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
> See the pkg-config man page for more details.
> ************************************************************************
>
> It's still asking for Guile-2.0 , the binaries i have in /usr/bin and
> /usr/local/bin have versions 2.1.0.

Did you eventually solve that?

Thanks,
Ludo’.