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

[Cook, Malcolm]

By the way, below my sig is my new and improved "wrap" to my "pitch".  I hope you like it...  
~Malcolm

Guix provides a well-engineered, supportable, portable, and extensible approach to software package and environment management. It allows to adopt and create unambiguous, clearly-specified, stand-alone, and reproducible software environments. It provides the administrative flexibility to deploy with transactional control a common standard suite of applications, as well as the agility to quickly respond to individual user and application requirements for more customized environments. Guix reduces the administrative burden for software package and environment management by allowing it to be distributed among researchers, with a natural means of coordination of effort. By offering a unified approach to environment management, it replaces the need for multiple other such tools, reducing support overhead. Guix can serve the needs for computational reproducibility through means of sharing these environments across a range of hosts and computer operating systems with both internal collaborators as well as the broader research community.

In short, Guix provides a rigorous response to requirements for package and environment integrity in a rapidly evolving research computing environment while easing and distributing the burden of administration. 


 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: guix-devel-bounces+mec=stowers.org at gnu.org [mailto:guix-devel-
 > bounces+mec=stowers.org at gnu.org] On Behalf Of Cook, Malcolm
 > Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 10:55 AM
 > To: 'Ricardo Wurmus' <ricardo.wurmus at mdc-berlin.de>
 > Cc: guix-devel at gnu.org; 'bio-packaging at mailman.open-bio.org' <bio-
 > packaging at mailman.open-bio.org>
 > Subject: RE: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought
 > 
 > > Cook, Malcolm <MEC at stowers.org> writes:
 >  >
 >  > > Hi Ricardo,
 >  > >
 >  > > Great specifics.  If you can help me solve a few of my remaining
 >  > > questions, in-line below, I'd be much obliged....
 >  >
 >  > Hi Malcolm,
 >  >
 >  > I see that others have already replied to some of your questions.  Are
 >  > there any other things that you’d like us to clarify?
 > [Cook, Malcolm]
 > 
 > No - but thanks for reaching out - I'm sure I will have more questions as I
 > slowly advance.
 > 
 > Insofar as my "MakingTheCase" document, I have finished it to my current
 > satisfaction and have used it internally to communicate my perceived value of
 > moving forward with GUIX.
 > 
 > https://github.com/malcook/sce/blob/master/MakingTheCase.org
 > 
 > Again, thank everyone for your helps.  If the Guix project wanted to
 > incorporate this document with whatever improvements, I'd be happy to
 > contribute.... just say the word....
 > 
 > Cheers,
 > 
 > Malcolm
 > 
 > 
 >  >
 >  > ~~ Ricardo