I have yet to read it carefully but it sure sounds fun!

@stikonas @janneke @monnier

So you can type “, supertuxkart” or “, objdump -T whatever” in your shell and it will do the right thing!

@civodul checking - it is not April fools day?!

Chapter 4 has all the implementation details of git-verify, itself available here:
https://codeberg.org/flandweber/git-verify

@civodul ahahah I'm going to add that kind of things in my software. No discord no shit. Let's go back to: send postal mail to this address

@civodul Much rather see this than "join our Discord."

...or even using the GitHub issue tracker, these days.

With all its benefits over C/C++ in terms of memory safety, Rust still depends on itself to be built*, and Rust’s packaging approach is a nightmare for distros of a magnitude close to that of npm.

* This can be worked around but it doesn’t come for free: https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2018/bootstrapping-rust/

@civodul This is a great way to learn best practices and see some real-world deployments of Guix.

Which do you consider more important for occasional contributors: contributing to infrastructure or reviewing patches to the Guix system itself?

@civodul > Improve infra monitoring
I'm in the review of https://issues.guix.gnu.org/54560 which may help extended monitoring ability.

For balancing traffic there is HAProxy in the (gnu packages high-availability) module which misses written service. That module contains base packages for clustering as well, all missing services.

@civodul perhaps we need to organize a fundraising drive for infra costs? I can help organize and promote that!

@civodul @futurile @fabionatali
I wish Guile-Studio got an SICP-compat layer =)
With the sicp package it would be the ultimate game changer to learn Scheme (and computer science too).

@civodul @futurile @fabionatali That's really good news indeed. I registered to the online meeting and notified my colleagues from Russian Guix community about the oncoming meeting too; maybe some of them will be joining as well.

@civodul @futurile @fabionatali Will it be recorded?

Third-party channels bring tens of thousands more packages.

For scientific usage: https://hpc.guix.info/channels
General purpose: https://toys.whereis.xn--q9jyb4c/channels

@redstarfish @civodul It’s even more disgusting than that because #acm.org is a restricted access #Cloudflare site. Some people are allowed to reach it and some are not.

@civodul @abcdw This is cool, I wonder if it would be safe to combine this with the auto upgrade service. It would be cool if less technical (or just forgetful) users would get security updates automatically.

@civodul @abcdw nice!! this should hopefully make things like pulseaudio -> pipewire easier since pipewire requires home services.

@civodul @abcdw fantastic!

@civodul Hi, thamks. That's great news! When and how does that "guix" get "pulled" please?

@civodul Also, I can't use the custom system channels yet because my Guix is several months behind. How do I disable authentication for the pull, please?

@civodul @jas4711 As I use the extended GNU build system for my own personal projects, I find it a bit frustrating that the PO files would not be present in the source tree, but I understand that if they were, then we would have a big bunch of undesirable “Update PO translation” commits.

As for Gnulib more specifically, I have noticed that in several places, you can safely commit (semi-)generated files, and rely on syntax-check to detect when they should be updated.

@civodul @jas4711
The benefits of Reproducible tarballs are a no-brainer to me.

I've been carrying and developing reproducible source tarball patches for Autotools and GNU Mes for quite some time, party courtesy of Timothy Sample.

I'm embarrassed and confused that after over 10y of Reproducible Builds, GNU and Autotools still need to get used to these ideas (and don't seem to make any progress at all).

@civodul :o