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#GNU #Guile 3.0.9 released!
👉 https://gnu.org/software/guile/news/gnu-guile-309-released.html
It’s primarily a bug-fix release, but it also adds new POSIX bindings (‘openat’, ‘posix spawn’, etc.) among other niceties!
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Two #Guix Days followed by #FOSDEM with no less than 10 Guix talks: next week’s going to be busy! Come chat with us if you’re in Brussels! #Guile has a new ‘spawn’ procedure that wraps ‘posix_spawn’, and ‘system*’, ‘open-pipe’ and friends are now based on ‘posix_spawn’ as well! More robust & more efficient thank fork+exec. 👍  @civodul I got hit by it a few times, but didn't have to time to dig in, kudos to Josselin and all related people! “The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Comes to Guix Containers” @podiki writes about the recently-added ‘guix shell --container --emulate-fhs’; check it out! Hey! The #Guix Days + #FOSDEM are approaching! Just booked my train to Brussels. Looking forward to meeting folks IRL again!! Kudos to @pjotrp & co. #GNU #Guix 1.4.0 released! 🎉 So many exciting things since 1.3.0, starting with ‘guix shell’ and Guix Home. Check it out! Plus, it comes with cute artwork by @luis_felipe.
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 #GNU #Guix 1.4.0rc2 is available for testing! It’s official: the pre-FOSDEM #Guix Days are back! 🎉🌨☃  Turns out search engines were likely to lead #Guile users to the manual of 1.6, 1.8 (both unmaintained for 15+ years), or 2.9.9 (a pre-release of 3.0), all of which were lingering under gnu.org/software/guile/docs. After a discussion on IRC, I cleaned it up. Now https://gnu.org/s/guile/learn/ only links to up-to-date material.  So, is it correct to point to version 3.0.8? (I'm working @ qwant). https://www.qwant.com/?q=guile+manual&client=ext-firefox-sb&t=web #GNU #Guix 1.4.0rc1 is available for testing! (Graphics courtesy of @luis_felipe 👍) The cute illustration by @luis_felipe was ready long before the code, but hey, better late than never! The “#Minimalistic & #declarative computing” #FOSDEM devroom published a CfP: If you’re into #Scheme, #Lisp, #Guix, or some other minimalistic or declarative language/framework, this is for you. 👍 Manolis, @pjotrp, and everyone organizing it! The “#Minimalistic & #declarative computing” devroom will be back at #FOSDEM! The CfP should be out soon, but in the meantime you can check out last year’s program full of lovely talks about lispy things and more: Cc: @scheme @ebassi I’ve found Discourse’s onboarding features smart—messages essentially getting you to learn the etiquette, to better understand where the other person is talking from (whether they’re a newcomer or not), and so on. It probably helps lower the barrier to entry and make interactions smoother. (I find it intriguing though that we need such “social prostheses” in the first place; is the on-line etiquette too different from real-life interactions?) “Packaging #Rust for Fedora” Good to see that we #Guix are not the only ones struggling. The dismissal of distribution concerns by Rust folks is a problem; developer use cases have been “optimized” with Cargo, but at the expense of users, QA, and more. Ricardo contributed a neat cookbook section on all things #containers in #Guix: You enjoy #Guix but miss /bin, /usr, and friends? Good news! ‘guix shell --emulate-fhs’ has landed! Example: ‘guix shell --container --emulate-fhs coreutils’ spawns a container that has ‘/bin/ls’ just like on any reasonable distro.
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 @civodul Nice! Thank you! That has the potential of solving a ton of problems for me! @civodul Very nice feature! However, the first time I ran it, it worked fine, but when I re-ran it with the same package combination, I got the following error. $ guix shell --container --emulate-fhs coreutils which -- which ls Changing the specified package combination or deleting files under $HOME/.cache/guix seems to work. Fellow hackers, #GNU #Guile no longer requires copyright assignment: @fidel When using ‘guix shell’ for development, one would usually prefer not to have an FHS layout to make sure the build machinery doesn’t have hidden assumptions. Also, ‘--emulate-fhs’ pulls in a special libc variant; it’s usually just an additional substitute download, but still an extra cost. Being a #FreeSoftware maintainer is not about coding; @bzg explained that very clearly: The #Guix maintainer to-do list as we sketched it in 2019 is similar and involves very little coding: Another way to contribute to #Guix is through translations and #i18n, and @roptat nicely showed how to get started: |