Re:The guide to software development with Guix
by pxc on Thursday June 08, 2023 @02:29PM
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> Perhaps some day this will also be possible for Guix, but I don't think it fits the ideology of Guix since MacOS isn't free (not as in beer).
I just wanna note here that the hesitation to invest in macOS support in the Guix development community is technical as well as ideological. macOS is a difficult platform to support for third-party package managers, and developer interest in macOS support is a difficulty within the Nix community, too. There's a lot of breakage on major macOS upgrades as well as some fundamental portability and hermeticity problems on the platform.
That said, (as an outsider) I think it would be awesome if Guix ran on macOS, just like it's ultimately a good thing for the world and for GNU that Emacs runs pretty well on macOS.
Re:The guide to software development with Guix
by pjotrk on Saturday June 10, 2023 @05:09PM
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I've had some luck in building it on MacOS with brew, however, the investment of learning MacOS dynamic linker is too costly at the moment, and it seems to be a blocking issue right now
I just wanna note here that the hesitation to invest in macOS support in the Guix development community is technical as well as ideological. macOS is a difficult platform to support for third-party package managers, and developer interest in macOS support is a difficulty within the Nix community, too. There's a lot of breakage on major macOS upgrades as well as some fundamental portability and hermeticity problems on the platform.
That said, (as an outsider) I think it would be awesome if Guix ran on macOS, just like it's ultimately a good thing for the world and for GNU that Emacs runs pretty well on macOS.