Re: hpcguix-web, channels, and inferiors

[Clément Lassieur]

Hello Ludovic,

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Clément Lassieur <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Hello Guix!
>>>
>>> There’s a little-known but neat program that Roel Janssen wrote called
>>> hpcguix-web.  It’s a web UI (with JavaScript) that allows you to browse
>>> packages; the UI can be customized, and Roel’s institution, for
>>> instance, customizes it to provide instructions for their clusters.  You
>>> can see it in action here:
>>>
>>>   https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/browse
>>>
>>> Until now hpcguix-web would just allow you to browse the list of
>>> packages of the Guix it was built against (it used ’fold-packages’,
>>> etc.)
>>
>> Would it make sense to integrate it into Cuirass?  We could browse
>> packages on Cuirass and to each package would be associated a link to
>> its build status on different architectures, etc.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> Good question.  Some sort of integration is desirable, with links as you
> mention.  Now Cuirass is not specifically about packages, conceptually
> at least, so IMO having both features in the same tool would “break the
> abstraction.”

Yes I agree.  I wonder though: is there a way to know if a specific
derivation is a package?

> What we could do, though, is run hpcguix-web and Cuirass on the same
> machine, and customize hpcguix-web such that it includes links to
> Cuirass builds, for example.  hpcguix-web already provides a level of
> customization that should make it easy.

Sounds good!

Clément