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Re: Release progress, week 8
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Maxim Cournoyer |
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Re: Release progress, week 8 |
Date: |
Sun, 04 Dec 2022 00:32:11 -0500 |
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Hi Simon,
zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi Ludo,
>
> On Fri, 02 Dec 2022 at 23:45, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> I started writing super long release notes (a book!), comments welcome:
>>
>>
>> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-artwork.git/tree/website/drafts/gnu-guix-1.4.0-released.md
>>
>> Comments? Suggestions? Happiness? Excitement? You tell!
Thank you for writing it! It looks good, though I think the explanation
of the benefit of GUIX_PYTHONPATH is a bit backward; one of the main
goals was to avoid having foreign distributions break spectacularly
because of Guix exposing their (sometimes incompatible) Python libraries
via the shared PYTHONPATH. It also fixed a sometimes useful use case of
using Python's virtualenv on top of Guix.
[...]
> About “guix pack -f deb”, I thought it was experimental and it is not
> mentioned. Maybe,
I don't think there's a need to label it as experimental. The mechanics
are simple, and already proven to work. I don't see the user-facing
options changing in backward incompatible ways in the future.
> —has
> been extended with an experimental format: `guix pack -f deb` creates a
> standalone `.deb` package
>
> It reminds me that,
>
> https://othacehe.org/wsl-images-for-guix-system.htm
>
> could fit a Guix blog post. Mathieu, WDYT?
Mathieu wrote one already, it's published on their personal blog. I've
read it recently, it was interesting [0]
[0] https://othacehe.org/wsl-images-for-guix-system.html
> About the part « **Python packaging** has seen important changes. » I
> would mention the removal of many Python 2 packages. Maxim, WDYT?
It's already mentioned in the NEWS which will land in the announcement
emails, at least. We could mention that despite removing 500+ Python 2
packages, our collection has grown from X to Y ;-).
I'll see if I can squeeze some extra bits in before the release.
--
Thanks,
Maxim
- Release progress, week 8, Ludovic Courtès, 2022/12/02
- Re: Release progress, week 8, Vagrant Cascadian, 2022/12/02
- Re: Release progress, week 8, zimoun, 2022/12/03
- Re: Release progress, week 8,
Maxim Cournoyer <=
- Re: Release progress, week 8, Julien Lepiller, 2022/12/03
- Re: Release progress, week 8, Mathieu Othacehe, 2022/12/04