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Re:Stack and Nix = portable reproducible builds by codemac on Friday December 11, 2015 @02:11AM (#10715827)
If you're like me and have a hankerin' for something other than the nix language, check out guix!

http://gnu.org/s/guix

All of the scheme your heart could want. I run archlinux + guix and it's a magical happy land. I'm sure the same could be accomplished with nix, but I enjoy writing scheme too much!

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Re:Stack and Nix = portable reproducible builds by smilliken on Friday December 11, 2015 @02:55AM (#10715922)
I've watched a few talks on guix, and there's lots to like.

I recall there's supposed to be compatibility between nix and guix, but can't remember the details. Are they going to share package expressions, have a transpiler, or something like this?

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Re:Stack and Nix = portable reproducible builds by codemac on Friday December 11, 2015 @06:11PM (#10720799)
They both use the same daemon (guix-builder is a fork of nix-builder), so I think they could share packages given the hashing is the same. This hypothetical has not been implemented yet, I'd love it.

Their is an importer[0], but this is basic and just grabs the package metadata, it's up to the packager to implement the package still. Hopefully this is further automated in the future.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-...

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