Re: Guix mentioned in Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)

[Alex Kost]

Pjotr Prins (2016-06-14 10:47 +0300) wrote:

> We published a paper on GeneNetwork which uses Guix for deployment:
>
>   http://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.00025
>
> The review process is online and you can see there were some hickups
> with Guix:
>
>   https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/25
>
> (1) Roel has suggested we should script the binary installation. I think
> that is a fine idea. That was hurdle one.
>
> (2) Hurdle two is fixating the package tree. I would really like a 
>
>   git pull --version HASH
    guix pull --version HASH
    ^^^^
I guess a typo

> where HASH pulls a git HASH version of the gnu/packages tree and
> compile the scheme files. That would help binary reproducibility
> without having to check out the full tree.
>
> We don't need to roll-back the guix client, though that would be nice
> too and should be possible with Guix. Just give it a different binary
> name, how about guix-HASH? When using guix-HASH it would automatically
> use the older guix and the older package tree.
>
> Or something along that vein.
>
> (3) I also think the default GUIX key should just be available. Why make
> guix authorize an extra step? When I install guix, I WANT it.
>
> (4) Finally, is there a way to automatically inject the search paths in
> the shell? Rather than printing them, and people have to copy-paste,
> why not create a new shell with paths set? Or is that already
> available?

Are you looking for "guix package --search-paths=prefix"?

-- 
Alex