Re: Continuous Integration for package.el Packages

[Moritz Ulrich]

Richard Stallman writes:

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>
>     Nix is a pretty good fit for this kind of tests because it limits access
>     to all resources. This prevents leaking of the host environment into the
>     build, preventing implicit dependencies.
>
> How about using Guix?  Guix is supposed to be similar to Nix,
> but using Guile, and it is meant for GNU.

The tests running on the Hydra instance are just a side effect of my
efforts to add the emacs packages to Nix (I'm a NixOS user). Using Guix
should be easy and almost a straight translation. I'm just not (yet)
familar with Guix to give this a try myself.

Maybe I will in the future.


-- 
Moritz Ulrich