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Re: How to package software for guix?
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Andreas Enge |
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Re: How to package software for guix? |
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Tue, 4 Nov 2014 23:13:23 +0100 |
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On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 02:06:56PM -0800, Omar Radwan wrote:
> I wanna get into guix development. Since I don't know any programming, I would
> be most useful in packaging software for guix. I want to package lxqt. I know
> qt5 is in the guix repo. So it wouldn't be very hard to package it, I think.
> But how do you package and upload software to the repo? Do I have to sign up
> on
> anything or get a gnu email or something?
Just try to package something and send the result for constructive criticism
to the list. I would suggest to start with something simple, not a complete
desktop environment.
You may wish to have a look at
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/guix-ghm-andreas-20130823.pdf ,
where I explain how to create simple and slightly less simple packages.
Andreas