[BioRuby] GNU Guix

[Pjotr Prins]

Ruby support is improving. Dave is doing a lot because he wants to
support his company's RoR stack:

  http://dthompson.us/ruby-on-guix.html

Pj.

On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 01:08:46PM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have written about GNU Guix before and now it is time for an update.
> With the release of 0.8.1 it is becoming rather good.
> 
>   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8965257
> 
> Interestingly 
> 
> * LLVM support has gone in (and Guix being Guix you can have multiple versions)
> * People are adding bioinformatics packages to Guix
> * Great Python, R, Julia and Ruby support
> * There are almost 100 python modules in there now(!)
> 
> The last is interesting. My take is that because Python's packaging
> is such a mess they are now leapfrogging the competition (i.e. us
> Ruby folks) with Guix ;)
> 
> I have been using GNU Guix daily over a year now and I love it. E.g.
> 
>   ruby -v
>   ruby 2.1.5p273 (2014-11-13 revision 48405) [x86_64-linux]
> 
>   gem env
> 
>   RubyGems Environment:
>   - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 2.2.2
>   - RUBY VERSION: 2.1.5 (2014-11-13 patchlevel 273) [x86_64-linux]
>   - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /home/pjotr/.gem/z1v7183grkhz33xnzr6bb1qwg2qn2s79-ruby-2.1.5/2.1.0
>   - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /gnu/store/z1v7183grkhz33xnzr6bb1qwg2qn2s79-ruby-2.1.5/bin/ruby
>   - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /home/pjotr/.gem/z1v7183grkhz33xnzr6bb1qwg2qn2s79-ruby-2.1.5/2.1.0/bin
>   - SPEC CACHE DIRECTORY: /home/pjotr/.gem/z1v7183grkhz33xnzr6bb1qwg2qn2s79-ruby-2.1.5/specs
>   - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
>     - ruby
>     - x86_64-linux
>   - GEM PATHS:
>      - /home/pjotr/.gem/z1v7183grkhz33xnzr6bb1qwg2qn2s79-ruby-2.1.5/2.1.0
>   - GEM CONFIGURATION:
>      - :update_sources => true
>      - :verbose => true
>      - :backtrace => false
>      - :bulk_threshold => 1000
>   - REMOTE SOURCES:
>      - https://rubygems.org/
>   - SHELL PATH:
>      - /home/pjotr/.gem/z1v7183grkhz33xnzr6bb1qwg2qn2s79-ruby-2.1.5/2.1.0/bin/
>      - /home/pjotr/.guix-profile/bin
>      - /usr/bin
>      - /bin
>      - /usr/sbin
>      - /sbin
>      - /usr/local/bin
> 
> Just saying. Total separation of Ruby and gems. No more RVM mess or mixing with
> Debian/Ubuntu installs.
> 
> If anyone is interested in *sane* software deployment with Ruby
> and/or bioinformatics, I invite you to send us (or me) an E-mail. I'll
> set up a mailing list for the purpose.
> 
> Pj.
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