Re: Guix containers 'advertised' in git repos

[zimoun]

Hi Pjotr,

On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 at 12:36, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> wrote:
> We are using Guix containers for deployment and software development.
> I was thinking it would be nice to advertise them in the git repos.
>
> Maybe we can standardise on that. What I have now is have a file
>
>   .git-deploy
>
> for deployment. E.g.,
> https://github.com/encryption4genetics/HEGP-website/blob/master/.guix-deploy
>
> and 
>
>   .git-dev 
>
> for development. E.g.,
> https://github.com/genetics-statistics/GEMMA/blob/master/.guix-dev
>
> These are just examples and can be generalised with a manifest. And
> I should probable use plain guix instead of ~/opt/guix/bin/guix ;).
>
> But maybe we can document a 'standard' for people to follow that allow
> for quickly finding the build using guix and deploying with a single
> command
>
>     sh .guix-deploy

I am not convince that a shell file should be the “standard” and instead
“augmented” manifest files seem more elegant, as suggested for example
here:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-07/msg00005.html


Cheers,
simon