Re: A GNU Distribution

[Antono Vasiljev]

Christophe Poncy <address@hidden> writes:

> Just a note to say that I am waiting to hear Andy Wingo about the GNU 
> OS. It seems to me that he was working on adding Guile Scheme support to 
> Emacs. I would love to know his vision for GNU.
>
> What I love about the original announcement is that GNU had to be 
> fundamentally Lispy. The opinion of Andy Wingo would be valuable in this 
> perspective...
>

Ask Ludovic Courtes! He is also guile maintainer, works on Nix/Hurd
and started guix:

https://gitorious.org/guix

Guix is Nix from Guile! Concretely, it allows Nix package management to
be done entirely in Scheme. The goal is to investigate whether Scheme,
and in particular the ability to define EDSLs, would allow it to fulfill
the role of the Nix language.



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