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Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought
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Pjotr Prins |
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Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought |
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Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:10:29 +0100 |
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On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:29:49PM +0000, Cook, Malcolm wrote:
> Yes. Agreed. However, my emphasis here was intended to be that
> Guix can be used to obviate the need for rbenv, virtualenv, and
> friends. I thought that `guix environment` was going to be an
> effective replacement for them. Am I mistaken in this?
I have dropped rbenv, virtualenv and even bundler from my working
environments, thanks to Guix! I am really, really, really happy
about that.
I even have different profiles for different ruby versions (one is on
1.8.7).
> I hope
> not! Assuming not, and if I understand your point, then I should
> write instead that this by virtue of guix's ability to set-up and
> tear down environments/profiles that not only specify versions of
> applications, but also libraries/plug-ins/modules for a variety of
> languages (ruby, perl, etc) and tools (emacs, etc). You mention the
> importance of 'importers' below... perhaps it is the combination of
> available importers (for scaffolding the packaging from external
> repos) along with the ability to use `guix environment` to make them
> available in specified contexts.
Yes, you need to create packages for all gems and Python modules in
use. Importers help define packages quickly.
Pj.
- Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Cook, Malcolm, 2016/02/08
- Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/02/09
- Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Leo Famulari, 2016/02/09
- Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/09
- RE: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Cook, Malcolm, 2016/02/18
- Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/28
- Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/02/28
- RE: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Cook, Malcolm, 2016/02/29
- RE: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Cook, Malcolm, 2016/02/29
Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/09