Re: [GSoC] Continuous integration tool à la Hydra.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> skribis:

> I have tested successfully with the following command on a foreign
> system:
>
>   guix environment --ad-hoc automake pkg-config guile guix libgcrypt sqlite 
> guile-sqlite3
>
> Tell me if it works for you.
>
>> How about including a guix package definition then we can easily build
>> it assuming "we" know how to do out-of-guix-tree package building :)
>
> It would indeed be nice to provide an easy way for Guix users to install
> Cuirass.  IMHO package definitions meant as a development build tool is
> confusing and should be avoided.  Nonetheless, I think it is useful to
> document the previous 'guix environment ...' command in the README.

What about providing a ‘guix.scm’ file that people could pass to ‘guix
environment -l’ (instead of typing the long command above), and to ‘guix
package -f’ (info "(guix) Invoking guix package")?

Ludo’.