Re: Guix Front End (GUI) and making it more mainstream, popular in scientific community.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Lars-Dominik Braun <ldb@leibniz-psychology.org> skribis:

>> […] from my point of view, the good direction would be a “web-app frontend”,
>> similarly to git-annex-assistant [1].  This design is more flexible because
>> it could be used locally *and* could also be the front-end of some servers
>> (e.g., build farms).
> I have something like this on my todo list as well. It would probably be more
> of a manifest file editor though, since we use manifest files for
> reproducibility.

Long ago Dave Thompson wrote guix-web, which allowed you to install
packages (you’d run it as your user):

  
https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https://gitorious.org/guix-web/guix-web.git

It’s an interesting approach with several advantages (in particular it
can be quickly developed), though I must say I remain unenthusiastic
about using web browsers for local GUIs.

Thanks,
Ludo’.