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(begin
(use-modules (srfi srfi-19))
`((title .
"Emacs as a general-purpose package manager")
(author . "Ludovic Courtès")
(date unquote (make-date 0 0 0 0 4 9 2014 7200))
(content
div
(p (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix"))
"GNU Guix")
", the package manager written for the GNU system, now has a neat Emacs user interface! It offers a visual, user-friendly alternative to the guix package "
(a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-package.html"))
"command-line interface")
"."
(br))
(p "For those familiar with "
(a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Packages.html"))
"package.el")
", the main user interface is quite similar: commands like guix-newest-available-packages, guix-search-by-regexp, and guix-installed-packages present a browsable list of packages. Individual packages can be selected, which displays additional details and presents a button to install or delete them. It is also possible to mark a set of packages for installation, upgrade, or deletion, and execute the set of operations in a single transaction."
(br))
(p "The interface has been developed by Alex Kost and was merged in Guix a day ago. It uses "
(a (@ (href "http://nongnu.org/geiser/"))
"Geiser")
", the beloved Guile/Emacs interface and development environment, to communicate with the underlying Guile process. That Guile process, in turn, simply uses Guix and "
(a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Package-Modules.html"))
"the whole distribution")
" as libraries—the goodness of embedding the "
(a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Defining-Packages.html"))
"packaging DSL")
" in a general-purpose language."
(br))
(p "Try it out and "
(a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/#contact"))
"let us know")
" what you think!"
(br)))))
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