Re: What’s next?

[myglc2]

On 05/24/2017 at 21:56 Ricardo Wurmus writes:

> Catonano <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 2017-05-24 18:25 GMT+02:00 Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden>:
> […]
>>> A friend of mine is having a second look at Guix (not SD yet) and one of
>>> the most confusing things initially is `guix pull'.  "When/how do I use
>>> that," he asks...and I can only say: I'm not using that...I think we
>>> want this to work--or something like this, we talked about this at
>>> FOSDEM, but AFAIK everyone is using Guix with Git.
>>>
>>> He responds with: then *why* is it in the manual.  I have no answer.
>>> Possibly I'm wrong and/or my information is outdated?
>>>
>>
>> This is an important point for me too
>>
>> I realized that everyone is using git and not guix pull just yesterday
> […]
>> I think this is a problem. It' s unfair to newcomers and it damages Guix as
>> a project because it makes the learning curve steeper with not so much of a
>> point why.
>
> There are two reasons why developers use Guix from git:
>
> * it allows them to add new packages and features to Guix itself.  This
>   is something “guix pull” doesn’t support well.
>
> * it doesn’t require compiling all of Guix on each update.

Hmm, that explains how it feels. Why doesn't it just pull the compiled guix 
files?