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Pkg3: comparison with Guix #48

Closed mvhulten closed 6 years ago

mvhulten commented 6 years ago

Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, [...] and takes a purely functional approach to package management

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Package-Management.html

Guix is implemented in Scheme. Julia uses Scheme as its parser. All the ideas of Guix mentioned in the above quote appear in line with those of Julia.

I don't know if Pkg3 should be "like Guix", but I happen to be using, and interested in the development of, both Julia and Guix. I wanted to be sure that all Pkg3 designers are well aware of Guix/Nix and possibly can use ideas/features (and maybe code) from the Guix project, or even collaborate.

StefanKarpinski commented 6 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yUiLCGegJs

mvhulten commented 6 years ago

Good presentation (and it answers my issue)!