GNU Guix Package Manager Looks To Grow

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNU Guix Package Manager Looks To Grow

The GNU Guix package manager / distribution system is still active in development and the developers have planned a road-map to reaching version 1.0...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTYwMjA

[Annabel]

nice!

I think they have plan for guix on hurd too

[Dharc]

nice!

I think they have plan for guix on hurd too

I don't think...until today Hurd is not complete and GNU too...all the GNU devs make softwares for Linux and they are not interested to port in many cases...

[lelele]

This seems cool. I wonder why it hasn't garnered that much attention though.

[Cyber Killer]

My main concern stays - is it easier to create packages for it than for rpm or deb? Those last 2 are pretty good package formats with managers, but making the actual packages is such a pain!

[Annabel]

all the GNU devs make softwares for Linux and they are not interested to port in many cases...

would you mind to give a example please?

[tuubi]

all the GNU devs make softwares for Linux and they are not interested to port in many cases...

You do know Hurd itself is a GNU project, right?

[shaurz]

So it's based on nix? At least it has atomic/transactional updates, a MUST for any new package manager.

[shaurz]

My main concern stays - is it easier to create packages for it than for rpm or deb? Those last 2 are pretty good package formats with managers, but making the actual packages is such a pain!

It appears to use Scheme syntax for packages. Not ideal in my opinion but I guess it beats shell scripts (since you have full access to a real programming language).

This example was in the slides:

(define hello
  (package
    (name "hello")
    (version "2.8")
    (source (origin
              (method url-fetch)
              (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/.../hello-" version ".tar.gz"))
              (sha256 (base32 "0wqd...dz6"))))
    (build-system gnu-build-system)
    (synopsis "Hello, GNU world: An example GNU package")
    (description "Produce a friendly greeting.")
    (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/")
    (license gpl3+)))

[dee.]

(it (appears (to (use (((scheme ((((((syntax)))))))))))))

ftfy.
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