This is the outline of a short session on Guix that I had the chance to organise at the 37th Chaos Communication Congress, or 37c3, in December 2023. It's not worth much, but I thought it was useful to have it here in case I want to reuse it or refer to it in the future.
How I made a program for Windows and GNU/Linux without touching any Windows machine. The tools and the tricks to be effective (Zig and NSIS for the win).
Many applications are packaged in OCI/Docker images but not in Guix. A good subset of them is written either in NodeJS, Go, Rust or languages that, as a general approach, encourage applications to have huge dependency graphs.
Using with-git package transformations and Derivations introduction
Modifying applications using manifests and package transformations
Creating package variants using just the command line tools
Introduction to the Guile REPL and querying Guix package information
We are happy to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.26.
Mes 0.25.1 is a bug-fix release.
An introduction to Guix packaging - rebuilding Guix packages