@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

@civodul yeah, mastodon-url-lookup can be called on any url. Tusky devs taught me how to implement it, bless em.

@civodul

Also, running builds in the future can help detect time bombs before they happen so that you can fix it now, before it is a more bothersome problem!

I am interested in using this to introduce problems...
changing the clock, kernel, CPU, hostname and username is really useful for #ReproducibleBuilds troubleshooting, as all of these things have been known to affect build results in the wild.

Looking forward to playing with this, thanks!

@civodul I was gonna ask if this could be achieved with namespace but apparently time is not namespaced. Sigh.

@civodul I saw that on one of the mailing lists recently, really excellent design. The Guix community is lucky to have @luis_felipe

@civodul I don't quite get why these need to be REPL commands instead of normal functions. 🤔

@civodul the ",phases grep" is pretty nice; how would you print grep's phases for --system=i586-gnu?

@civodul Why not to include the common Guix's modules to load as an entry point? To reduce the number of representative commands:
```
scheme@(guix-user)> ,use (guix)
scheme@(guix-user)> ,use (gnu packages base)
```

Maybe (guix), (guix utils) and some others.

@civodul demonstrate pls? I can't see it.

@civodul wow! So the text is rendered as vectorial?

@civodul I also made a discovery: xterm is still a thing.