[tor-dev] stem is now available through Guix

[ng0]

Hi,

Damian Johnson <atagar at torproject.org> writes:

> Hi ng0, that's neat! Is there a stem-specific guix page to link to?
> The general package page is large enough it hosed my browser for quite
> a while, and its link is for a multi-thousand line file...
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/python.scm#n9855
>
> Not the end of the world if not but most platforms provide a nice
> package-specific page. For instance Debian's is...
>
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/python-stem
>
> Looks like guix is still in beta (v0.11.0) but when it has a stable
> release I'd be happy to add it.
>
> Cheers! -Damian

Thanks for your reply.
I will come back to you when Guix is no longer in beta.

On the package web view: we are working on it, this is not optimal and
not useful to link to, thanks for your feedback.


> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 2:19 AM, ng0 <ng0 at n0.is> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> stem is now available as python-stem on all systems which are able to
>> run GNU Guix: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/
>>
>> "guix package -i python-stem" installs the python3 variant (binary substitute),
>> "guix package -i python2-stem" installs the python2 variant (binary substitute).
>> See Guix manual 3.2
>> [https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Invoking-guix-package]
>> for an explanation if you want to link it, and on the ways to get the
>> sources based installation instead of the binary substitute.
>>
>> It would be great to have the following added to
>> https://stem.torproject.org/download.html page:
>>
>> GNU Guix / GuixSD
>>
>> # python3 package:
>> % guix package --install python-stem
>>
>> # python2 package:
>> % guix package --install python2-stem
>>
>> On the side there can be the dar kvariant of the Guix package logo[1]
>>
>> It is correct that there is no "sudo", it's no typo.
>>
>> I did the initial packaging of it and will probably look for updates of
>> stem, but Guix is a collaborative project, anyone who feels responsible
>> can update and fix packages, it goes through a quality assurance process
>> before changes are applied to the source.
>>
>> [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/static/base/img/Guix-package.png
>>
>> thanks,
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