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Ludovic Courtès d118c548b5 build-system/gnu: Really apply patches.
* guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm (patch): Use `--input FILE', not just
  `FILE'.
2012-09-01 19:21:33 +02:00
distro utils: Change `substitute*' to allow iteration over several matches. 2012-09-01 19:21:31 +02:00
guix build-system/gnu: Really apply patches. 2012-09-01 19:21:33 +02:00
po build: Tell xgettext that the source is UTF-8. 2012-07-07 22:39:39 +02:00
srfi SRFI-64: Remove use of (ice-9 syntax-case). 2012-06-05 11:21:13 +02:00
tests define-record-type*: Add the `inherit' syntactic constructor keyword. 2012-08-30 00:18:50 +02:00
.gitignore build: Use Automake's `gnu' option. 2012-07-07 22:53:01 +02:00
AUTHORS Add the usual top-level files. 2012-06-03 23:46:56 +02:00
ChangeLog build: Use Automake's `gnu' option. 2012-07-07 22:53:01 +02:00
configure.ac configure.ac: Make 'guild' configure check fatal, otherwise one gets 'compile: command not found' during make 2012-08-27 15:44:32 +02:00
COPYING Add the usual top-level files. 2012-06-03 23:46:56 +02:00
distro.scm distro: Move patches to their own directory. 2012-08-22 17:25:43 +02:00
guix-build.in guix-build: Fix the "unrecognized option" error message. 2012-08-31 17:05:34 +02:00
guix.scm Split (guix) in (guix store) and (guix derivations). 2012-04-18 23:34:12 +02:00
Makefile.am distro: m4: Add patch to allow builds with glibc 2.16+. 2012-09-01 11:52:52 +02:00
NEWS build: Use Automake's `gnu' option. 2012-07-07 22:53:01 +02:00
README Update list of dependencies. 2012-07-01 15:11:14 +02:00
release.nix release.nix: Add dependency on GNU libgcrypt. 2012-08-17 10:45:49 +02:00
THANKS Add `THANKS'. 2012-07-07 22:39:57 +02:00

-*- mode: org -*-

Guix is Nix[0] from Guile[1]!

Concretely, it allows Nix package management to be done entirely in
Scheme. The goal is to investigate whether Scheme, and in particular
the ability to define EDSLs, would allow it to fulfill the role of the
Nix language.

[0] http://nixos.org/nix/
[1] http://gnu.org/software/guile/


* Hacking

Guix currently depends on the following packages:

  - [[http://gnu.org/software/guile/][GNU Guile 2.0.x]]
  - [[http://nixos.org/nix/][Nix]]
  - [[http://gnupg.org/][GNU libgcrypt]], or [[http://nongnu.org/libchop/][libchop]]

For bootstrapping purposes, it is useful to reuse packages from Nixpkgs.
For this to work, you need to have a checkout of the Nixpkgs repository,
with the `NIXPKGS' environment variable pointing to it.

  - [[http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/][Nixpkgs]]

* How It Works

Guix does the high-level preparation of a /derivation/.  A derivation is
the promise of a build; it is stored as a text file under
=/nix/store/xxx.drv=.  The (guix derivations) module provides the
`derivation' primitive, as well as higher-level wrappers such as
`build-expression->derivation'.

Guix does remote procedure calls (RPCs) to the Nix daemon (the
=nix-worker --daemon= command), which in turn performs builds and
accesses to the Nix store on its behalf.  The RPCs are implemented in
the (guix store) module.

* Contact

The repository is at <https://gitorious.org/guix/>.

Please email <ludo@gnu.org> or <nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl>, or
join #guile or #nixos on irc.freenode.net or `civodul'.