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As in Linuxbrew, Homebrew of Linux?
by meitham 7y ago
As in Linuxbrew, Homebrew of Linux?
- firethief 7y agoI have no idea what you're talking about. I was replying to a comment that, if I understand correctly, was suggesting "porting" Guix so that packages could be defined in Ruby instead of its native Guile, for the purposes of maintainability. But I may not have understood correctly, because I don't see how anyone could think that would improve maintainability. Hence the question.
- trianglesphere 7y agoHomebrew, a pretty dominant command line package manager for mac osx, has its package definition/install scripts written in ruby. It doesn't do the functional dependencies aspect well, but it is the package manager for macs.
- firethief 7y agoOh, I didn't know Homebrew is scripted in Ruby. Thanks, that's the connection I was missing!
- cutler 7y agoConsidering the ratio of professional, commercial, maintainable software written in Ruby to that written in Guile approaches infinity I fail to grasp your point about Guile being such an essential ingredient.