Ok, I gotta ask:has anyone gotten OpenCL on AMDGPU working on #Guix ?I need it for some serious Blender stuff.I know it probably involves proprietary crap, which I hate, but I wanna use the hardware I already have.
âAll in all, the Nix language is a lazy JSON with functions.â
âIndeed, static types can be seen as superflous in a configuration language: if your program is only run once on fixed inputs, any type error will be reported at run-time anyway.â
âWhile the basic computational blocks are functions, the basic data blocks in Nickel are recordsâ
That was some of the rationale for #Guix. I see Nix/Guix convergence here!
Linux #games stores/platforms should use #nix and/or #guix to package games instead of their own custom script solutions.
That would allow * specifying custom Wine builds* pinning dependency versions* trivially maintaining and applying patches* creating wrappers and setup scripts* atomic upgrades with rollback* explicit and reproducible dependency resolution* maintaining your own easily shareable repos with custom packages and overrides* a platform/frontend-agnostic packaging solution (no need to use any particular GUI - can just manage your games with Nix/Guix directly)
It would also contribute to the declarative package management revolution.
Just look at this list: https://alternativeto.net/software/lutris/ - wouldn't it be great if those could all use the same packaging format and use/extend a common upstream repo?
> In the process of enhancing guix pull we developed a high-level API that allows an instance of Guix to âtalkâ to a different instance of Guixâan âinferiorâ.Oh, awesome! That's exactly what I didn't dare hope. đ@guix#guix
The activity around the Guix Past channel, which has received a bunch of ânew old packagesâ, shows the real need for practical software archeology in scienceâfar from the bleeding edge that we hackers love. :-)
Iâm trying to install tegaki-zinnia-traditional-chinese. For whatever reason itâs not in my regular repo. But it hangs at the build step and just sits there, revving the cpu to half. Should... I waited quite a while, but naught. Any idea how long it might take? I donât want to leave hims thinking too hard overnight...
âReproducible builds and deployments â this is the ambition that #nix proclaims for itself. This ambition comes, however, with a fine print: builds are reproducible only if the original source code still exists. Otherwise, Nix canât download, build and deploy it.â
*coughs* what about blobs in Nixpkgs?
Nixâs usage of #SoftwareHeritage needs to be complemented with Blobs Heritage. #Guix needs only the former.