[Bio-packaging] Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought

Ludovic Courtès ludo at gnu.org
Tue Feb 9 20:36:19 UTC 2016


"Cook, Malcolm" <MEC at stowers.org> skribis:

> I have been asked to write up an argument for the advantages that GNU Guix confers for deploying linux software, especially scientific computing and including bioinformatics software.
> 	
> To that end I have written up this document 
>
> 	https://github.com/malcook/sce/blob/master/MakingTheCase.org

Good idea, and nice work!

Perhaps it would be worth mentioning ‘guix environment’ and
‘--search-paths’.

But really, I don’t have much to add to Ricardo’s detailed review.  :-)

Thank you,
Ludo’.



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