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Ludovic Courtès 60f984b262 distro: Bootstrap standard inputs from Nixpkgs. 
This is a first step towards bootstrapping from a set of pre-built,
statically-linked binaries.

* guix/build-system/gnu.scm (package-with-explicit-inputs,
  standard-inputs): New procedure.
  (%store): New variable.
  (%standard-inputs): Remove.
  (gnu-build): New `implicit-inputs?' keyword parameter.  Use it to
  choose whether to use `(standard-inputs SYSTEM)' or the empty list.

* distro/base.scm (guile-2.0): Remove dependency on XZ, which is now
  implicit.
  (%bootstrap-inputs, gcc-boot0, binutils-boot0, linux-headers-boot0,
  %boot1-inputs, glibc-final, %boot2-inputs, m4-boot2, gmp-boot2,
  mpfr-boot2, mpc-boot2, %boot3-inputs, gcc-final, %boot4-inputs,
  %final-inputs): New variables.
 		2012-09-02 20:05:39 +02:00
distro distro: Bootstrap standard inputs from Nixpkgs. 2012-09-02 20:05:39 +02:00
guix distro: Bootstrap standard inputs from Nixpkgs. 2012-09-02 20:05:39 +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
COPYING 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
Makefile.am distro: diffutils: Allow builds with glibc 2.16+. 2012-09-02 16:13:49 +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
THANKS Add `THANKS'. 2012-07-07 22:39:57 +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
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
release.nix release.nix: Add dependency on GNU libgcrypt. 2012-08-17 10:45:49 +02:00

README 

-*- 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'.