Re: Compile skribilo doc containing guix channel references

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:

> About the channel information to include in a published paper, yeah
> Skribilo/Guix is one (non-straightforwardly?) way to get “guix describe
> -f channels”. ;-)

Sure, one can achieve the same thing without Skribilo.

> Is it possible to have a Skribilo reader which would use less
> parenthesis?  Similar to Racket Scribble?

Definitely, there’s already a couple of them and we could add one with a
syntax similar to Texinfo or Scribble.

> Well, if I understand correctly, «the context of reproducible research
> workflows» somehow means using Skribilo as authoring system for
> producing “active papers“, right?

Right.

> PS: About the name/version pairs, are we not trying to explain at length
> that it is the wrong way to obtain reproducibility?  Aside it is not
> clear what is the depth of name/version pairs to provide when speaking
> about reproducibility, no?

Indeed! :-)  We can do both: explain why it’s wrong and provide a way to
do it for those who want/need to do it anyway.

Ludo’.