Re: Does guix not include samba service?

[jbranso]

March 14, 2022 6:37 AM, "Simon Streit" <simon@netpanic.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> writes:
> 
>> Nope, there is no samba service in Guix (yet :-).
> 
> I've actually been working on one, which happens to be my final thesis
> for my school course. I completed it, and handed it in. But stopped
> shy from posting it to the Guix community. But I've been too quiet on
> this subject lately.
> 
> I got a basic service running, have written some documentation for the
> manual. But stopped short of submitting patches. I am not convinced
> that it is good enough to be included into Guix though.
> 
> It definetly needs better improving. Yesterday I finally started to
> refactor it and have prepared it to implement a config serialiser.
> Samba's configuration framework overwhelmed me for a bit.
> 
> Anyone willing to see its basic shape? I should prepare a local Guix
> branch somewhere for anyone who's interested to see it.

I would say just post it to guix-patches@gnu.org.  That way the code is
not lost.  If someone wants to complete it, then they can.

> 
> Kind regards
> Simon