Re: new manifest format readers?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Björn Höfling <address@hidden> writes:

> And I would like to see it integrated into Cuirass: Currently I have to
> prepare a complicated configuration, and a Scheme file that must contain
> a function that takes a store (what is that? And why should _I_ care
> about that?) and returns a data-structore of ... was it manifests or
> derivations or ...
>
> Instead, just give the git repository and a file with packages-list as
> you proposed.

Cuirass is still in flux.  I agree that there are many things about it
that aren’t intuitive, and sadly the documentation is also lacking.

On a related note: the research group that I’m working with is open for
master’s students who would like to work on Guix + Cuirass for the
duration of a student project:

    http://bioinformatics.mdc-berlin.de/mastersprojects

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Ricardo

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