Re: VSCode DevContainer for Guix? (Yasuaki Kudo)

[wolf]

On 2023-07-12 10:22:33 +0900, Yasuaki Kudo wrote:
> Thank you for this link Zelphir!
> 
> While I don't know much about this, it smells like the restrictions are the 
> same sort that Chrome and Firefox put as the proprietary surface layered on 
> top of the respective copyleft foundation?
> 
> I tried the de-microsofted VSCodium when I used to run GuixOS (Now I am back 
> to Ubuntu) but it didn't work well so I left it at that 😅
> 
> My gut feeling is that Guix will excel at as niche and very efficient 
> software packaging system and the popularity and adoption could expand from 
> there. 
> 
> So I thought VSCode DevContainer could be a very good place to start!  
> 
> An example use case I can think of is for GitHub Actions continuous 
> integration.  It seems to me that local SSD caching (10GB) is almost 
> instantaneous. We can cache the Guix build dependencies there.  
> 
> Then, it will create a Docker image as an artifact from the CI-run.  The 
> image is as small as it can be because Guix only installs the necessary 
> software.

Careful about this assumption, Guix-generated container images are pretty large
and include a lot of things you might not want in there (man, info pages, bash,
...).  I am not saying "do not use it", but if you try to convince people to use
Guix for container builds, size should not be your argument (especially since
Alpine exists as an alternative).

> 
> This will be very beneficial because the artifact (Docker images) 
> uploads/downloads seem to very slow!
> 
> This way, we can gradually introduce Guix to development teams as niche 
> software for specific cases?  (The guix docker images will work together with 
> many other docker images created in conventional ways)
> 
> -Yasu
> 
> > On Jul 12, 2023, at 04:23, Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltstahl@posteo.de> 
> > wrote:
> > 
> > Hello Yasu,
> > 
> > There are some legal aspects about using the official "marketplace" from 
> > other than the official VSCode build: 
> > https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/DOCS.md#extensions--marketplace
> >  at least according to the VSCodium linking to 
> > https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/31168, wherein someone 
> > interpreted things: 
> > https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/31168#issuecomment-1136375670.
> > 
> > Not sure this plays any role in your proposed process. It is something to 
> > keep in mind.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Zelphir
> > 
> >> On 7/11/23 18:00, help-guix-request@gnu.org wrote:
> >> Send Help-Guix mailing list submissions to
> >>    help-guix@gnu.org
> >> 
> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
> >>    https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-guix
> >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
> >>    help-guix-request@gnu.org
> >> 
> >> You can reach the person managing the list at
> >>    help-guix-owner@gnu.org
> >> 
> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> >> than "Re: Contents of Help-Guix digest..."
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Today's Topics:
> >> 
> >>    1. VSCode DevContainer for Guix? (Yasuaki Kudo)
> >> 
> >> 
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> 
> >> Message: 1
> >> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 05:55:33 +0900
> >> From: Yasuaki Kudo <yasu@yasuaki.com>
> >> To: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
> >> Subject: VSCode DevContainer for Guix?
> >> Message-ID: <BB9B5B1E-810C-4315-AD49-9FEC156F5E9E@yasuaki.com>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> >> 
> >> Hello!!
> >> 
> >> So I have just spent a month battling with Docker and VSCode for a project 
> >> and became familiar with them.  Combining both, we can create a very 
> >> pleasant and reproducible developer environment that everyone can copy.
> >> 
> >> DevContainer is like Screen/Tmux on steroids - the heavy lifting of 
> >> compilation and running can be shifted to a Docker, a remote SSH session, 
> >> or a combination of both, while the end-programmer can interact with the 
> >> local VSCode IDE.  And the developer-facing computer can be any of the 3 - 
> >> Linux, Windows or Macintosh (inclusive of Apple custom CPU)
> >> 
> >> A development team can share the exact same environment using this 
> >> mechanism.
> >> 
> >> I think we should have such a DecContainer for Guix programmers? 😄
> >> 
> >> -Yasu
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> ------------------------------
> >> 
> >> Subject: Digest Footer
> >> 
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Help-Guix mailing list
> >> Help-Guix@gnu.org
> >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-guix
> >> 
> >> 
> >> ------------------------------
> >> 
> >> End of Help-Guix Digest, Vol 92, Issue 9
> >> ****************************************
> > 
> > -- 
> > repositories: https://notabug.org/ZelphirKaltstahl
> > 
>

W.

-- 
There are only two hard things in Computer Science:
cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.

signature.asc
Description: PGP signature