RE: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought

[Cook, Malcolm]

By the way, below my sig is my new and improved "wrap" to my "pitch".  I hope 
you like it...  
~Malcolm

Guix provides a well-engineered, supportable, portable, and extensible approach 
to software package and environment management. It allows to adopt and create 
unambiguous, clearly-specified, stand-alone, and reproducible software 
environments. It provides the administrative flexibility to deploy with 
transactional control a common standard suite of applications, as well as the 
agility to quickly respond to individual user and application requirements for 
more customized environments. Guix reduces the administrative burden for 
software package and environment management by allowing it to be distributed 
among researchers, with a natural means of coordination of effort. By offering 
a unified approach to environment management, it replaces the need for multiple 
other such tools, reducing support overhead. Guix can serve the needs for 
computational reproducibility through means of sharing these environments 
across a range of hosts and computer operating systems with both internal 
collaborators as well as the broader research community.

In short, Guix provides a rigorous response to requirements for package and 
environment integrity in a rapidly evolving research computing environment 
while easing and distributing the burden of administration. 


 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: address@hidden [mailto:guix-devel-
 > address@hidden On Behalf Of Cook, Malcolm
 > Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 10:55 AM
 > To: 'Ricardo Wurmus' <address@hidden>
 > Cc: address@hidden; 'address@hidden' <bio-
 > address@hidden>
 > Subject: RE: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought
 > 
 > > Cook, Malcolm <address@hidden> writes:
 >  >
 >  > > Hi Ricardo,
 >  > >
 >  > > Great specifics.  If you can help me solve a few of my remaining
 >  > > questions, in-line below, I'd be much obliged....
 >  >
 >  > Hi Malcolm,
 >  >
 >  > I see that others have already replied to some of your questions.  Are
 >  > there any other things that you’d like us to clarify?
 > [Cook, Malcolm]
 > 
 > No - but thanks for reaching out - I'm sure I will have more questions as I
 > slowly advance.
 > 
 > Insofar as my "MakingTheCase" document, I have finished it to my current
 > satisfaction and have used it internally to communicate my perceived value of
 > moving forward with GUIX.
 > 
 > https://github.com/malcook/sce/blob/master/MakingTheCase.org
 > 
 > Again, thank everyone for your helps.  If the Guix project wanted to
 > incorporate this document with whatever improvements, I'd be happy to
 > contribute.... just say the word....
 > 
 > Cheers,
 > 
 > Malcolm
 > 
 > 
 >  >
 >  > ~~ Ricardo