Planet Guix

Using channels to find more apps on Guix - including proprietary ones from the nonguix channel

We are happy to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.24.1, representing 23 commits over five months by four people.

The Guile bindings for GnuTLS has been part of GnuTLS since spring 2007 when Ludovic Courtès contributed it after some initial discussion. I have been looking into getting back to do GnuTLS coding, and during a recent GnuTLS meeting one topic was Guile bindings. It seemed like a fairly self-contained project to pick up on. It is interesting to re-read the old thread when this work was included: some of the concerns brought up there now have track record to be evaluated on. My opinion that the cost of introducing a new project per language binding today is smaller than the cost of maintaining language bindings as part of the core project. I believe the cost/benefit ratio has changed during the past 15 years: introducing a new project used to come with a significant cost but this is no longer the case, as tooling and processes for packaging have improved. I have had similar experience with Java, C# and Emacs Lisp bindings for GNU Libidn as well, where maintaining them centralized slow down the pace of updates. Andreas Metzler pointed to a similar conclusion reached by Russ Allbery.

This wonderful article by Marius Bakke (thanks for using Haunt btw!) about guix shell hit the orange website front page recently. I left a comment to the effect of “hell yeah I use it for all my projects!” and someone asked me for an example of what I do. I sent them some links but I thought hey, this could be a blog post and I haven't written one of those in years!

Bringing RISC-V support to the bootstrappable TinyCC Mes forked. Some problems and a look into the future.

Common workflows when using the Guix package manager

Discussing what changes need to be done to make GCC compilable form a simpler C compiler, TinyCC.

Description of the changes applied from a minimal compiler that runs and generates assembly to something that is actually able to compile, interacting with binutils and having a working libgcc.

On a new-to-me ThinkPad T440p, I’ve had the worst time with the TrackPoint.

We are thrilled to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.24, representing 222 commits over one year by four people.