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Why GNU Emacs?(elephly.net)
353 points by rekado 11y ago|304 comments
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by rekado 11y ago
> Support for institutional installations: A central build daemon + farm is a pretty lame say to synchronize things. Should make it so anybody can build stuff, and anybody can share binaries with those that trust them, and shared NSF sto
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by rekado 11y ago
> Functional package managers are nice, as are reproducible builds, but they come up short for customizability. I'd have to write an awful lot of packages with Nix and Guix to try out many different versions, compilers, dependencies
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by rekado 11y ago
> Right, so, what almost all of the FLOSS world is doing, almost all of the time. Citation needed. I have been packaging (scientific) software for years and it's usually a happy mix of different languages and libraries.
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by rekado 11y ago
> What Nix/Guix are not doing is reducing the burden of specification. You write down all the details of a very specific, reproducible software stack, but you do not make that software much more composable or extensible than it alre
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by rekado 11y ago
No, it definitely works with multiple clients. I have ERC connected to ZNC at all times in the office and at home I have ERC connected to ZNC when I'm off work. I get buffer playback as soon as I connect and I don't miss any mes
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by rekado 11y ago
> If we want to see that world happening, we must first ensure that the people building software can earn a decent living, because frankly, we deserve it. I mean, first come up with business models that work. I very much disagree with th
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by rekado 11y ago
I'm still using one of these "ancient" Thinkpads (an X200S). It's good enough for my purposes (audio recording, live audio performances, hacking on free software, Emacs, browsing the web). I don't often find myself
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by rekado 11y ago
It's the same (or worse?) with Java. OpenJDK 6 and 7 can both be bootstrapped with GCJ, but with JDK 8 you need JDK6. Even GCJ needs a prebuilt jar of ECJ, so there is no way to bootstrap Java without having to trust binaries.
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Service composition in GuixSD(savannah.gnu.org)
8 points by rekado 11y ago|0 comments
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by rekado 11y ago
For all those wonderful command-line games and applications on the web with Lisp I suggest reading "The Land of Lisp" ;)
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by rekado 11y ago
You can use the guix command line tool and let it talk to a remote guix-daemon. I would not know how to set this up on a Mac, but Guix is in fact designed such that the command line tool is separate from the daemon. I'm using this fea
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by rekado 11y ago
"guix environment" can spawn a container to run software in isolation. There's also "guix system vm" to build a virtual machine, or "guix system container". Note, though, that Guix has not been ported to
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by rekado 11y ago
From the announcement: > GNU Guix is a functional package manager for the GNU system. The Guix System Distribution or GuixSD is an advanced distribution of the GNU system that relies on GNU Guix and respects the user's freedom. >
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by rekado 11y ago
The Guix project reuses the Nix daemon but it made different decisions at various points, such as using one unified language (Guile Scheme) for every part of the system, or how to configure the system; using Guile for everything (turning Gu
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GNU Guix 0.9.0 released – Functional package manager and distribution(savannah.gnu.org)
171 points by rekado 11y ago|61 comments
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by rekado 11y ago
There's also Lilypond (lots of Guile) and Gimp (a little bit of Guile), which are both pretty well-known projects. Guix itself is a large project. GDB has Guile scripting support as well. The website could feature a few more projects
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by rekado 11y ago
That's excellent! I'm digging the declarative approach. Successively mutating a disk image and needlessly duplicating items that really could be shared in the first place is the moral equivalent of giving up on the problem rather
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by rekado 11y ago
Frankly, I wasn't even aware of this problem, but I'm very glad it has been fixed!
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by rekado 11y ago
This has been around for many years now, but it seems that there are hardly any implementations. I extended one of my projects back then with RemoteStorage support to allow users to upload files to their preferred storage site (rather than
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by rekado 11y ago
Another Emacs person here. I'm using offlineimap+msmtp together with mu4e. I prefer not to do IMAP sync or mail delivery in Emacs itself.
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by rekado 11y ago
I very much like how Guix is just a Guile Scheme library and can itself be integrated with other Scheme code. There is, for example, guix-web, a web interface to the package manager; there also is an Emacs interface using geiser. Using Gui
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by rekado 11y ago
"Installing" a package with Guix really just means that it is referenced through a link. /gnu is just a cache for "evaluated" package recipes. You could create a profile that contains your symlinks to the items in
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by rekado 11y ago
> I'm not sure I want to install guix on my main Archlinux box, as I don't want conflicts with the existing libraries and applications That's the beauty of functional package management: no global state is modified. Whate
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by rekado 11y ago
Configuration management is slowly coming to Guix. Guix is the foundation of the Guix System Distribution, which is a system instantiated from a declarative system configuration file /etc/config.scm. There is work under way to e
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Ruby on Guix(dthompson.us)
74 points by rekado 11y ago|49 comments
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by rekado 11y ago
"Adding LISP to stuff usually kills it off" What? Oh, you mean like Emacs. Scheme is a beautiful language; it's flexible and trivial to learn. Replacing it with Python would be silly. Besides, Guile Scheme is the designat
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by rekado 11y ago
Emacs is a collection of separate Elisp programmes that all cooperate and share data structures. You would not call Unix tools un-UNIX-y only because they all share procedures from the C library. Emacs also interfaces with external process
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by rekado 12y ago
> Additionally, there is no way for a systems administrator to easily audit those packages installed by users; if a user is running an insecure, out of date program because they haven't done an update in six months, this could lead
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by rekado 12y ago
Guix is not as old as Nix. Guix reuses parts of Nix but replaces the various languages in use for Nix packages and tools with Guile Scheme, both in the "frontend" as well as the "backend". Packages are just regular Gui

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