 My friends, I made a terrific (terrible?) discovery that goes by the name ‘sdlpop’: I spent hours on this as a kid and it was great, even though I’m not sure I ever went past level 2 (I didn’t today). “Adventures on the quest for long-term reproducible deployment” On addressing build reproducibility problems on “old” packages, in particular time-related, to ensure #ReproducibleBuilds and #ReproducibleResearch with #Guix. “Guix Days 2024 and FOSDEM recap” (Steve George) Great summary of the many friendly and fruitful discussions we had last week! “HIP and #ROCm come to #Guix” New blog post on the 100+ Guix packages contributed by AMD, our preliminary tests on one the French national supercomputers, and how it can benefit going forward to both AMD and the French and European #HPC environments. 📺 Videos of the Nov. 2023 Workshop on Reproducible Software Environments for Research and High-Performance Computing are on-line! Videos include short interviews with the speakers. Tutorial material is also available from that page. Many thanks to the speakers and to the video team at Institut Agro! It’s wonderful: mastodon.el now automatically resolves URLs to Mastodon posts, such that you can view these posts and interact with them without ever leaving the comfort of Emacs. 👍 Virtual build machines to the rescue of software archaeologists: Not just archaeologists actually: it’s something you need to rebuild packages that include “time traps” (fail to build after some time). It’s relatively rare, but when you need them, you’d rather have a simple way to work around the problem.  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... Looking forward to playing with this, thanks!  Nice guide to running podman “rootless” on #Guix System: While going through my email backlog, I stumbled upon this cute #Guix visit card by @luis_felipe. Fancy!  @civodul I saw that on one of the mailing lists recently, really excellent design. The Guix community is lucky to have @luis_felipe #Guix packagers: you may like these new REPL commands to inspect a package’s configure flags, phases, etc. 👇
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 I made an incredible discovery: xterm, the venerable terminal emulator, can make SVG screen dumps! (And XHTML.) 🤯 (From the menu on control-left-click. How come I never noticed before?) Magit-todos-mode is neat but it can make you feel like you’re facing one more set of Sisyphean tasks—Guix in this case. @civodul I used Guix for 3+ years on a work machine, then left it, and while trying to install it on another one just couldn’t, because of some failures – apparently CI didn’t catch that some packages fail to build, and even the base system absolutely needed the packages (no, Just gave a short introductory talk about Guix for the Software Sustainability SIG of the Netherlands eScience Center, following an introduction to Nix. The audience doesn’t use either tool so far so now I’m curious to know if they’ll want to leave CONDA & co. for Guix or Nix! “Of Nix and Guix, which has the steepest learning curve?”, someone asked. I replied that from the start we tried hard to make Guix approachable, more than the Nix I contributed to back then, also adding facilities like command-line transformation options… but that I’m biased. I wonder what an objective answer would be. Anyone? :-) Stumbled upon Futurile, a neat blog with lots of pleasant, how-to-style #Guix posts: Try #Hurd 👉 https://tryhurd.gexp.no/ The unbelievable Marius Bakke turned #Guix childhurds into cloudhurds. ☁ “A new Quality Assurance tool for #Guix” The amazing @cbaines writes about https://qa.guix.gnu.org and all the things behind it. |
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