Re: Guix on Macintosh?

[Wojtek Kosior]

> As we all know, the way Docker works means there is horrendous waste on 
> hard drives and network.  So I am thinking of using Guix.  However, I 
> understand that there is no native support for Guix for Macintosh.

I doubt I will be able to help you... but I have same questions that
might help clarify the situation so that others can help more easily :)

By "Macintosh" you mean an x86_64 device or an ARM one? Or both kinds?

Do you want to run Guix on bare Mac hardware? Or rather, are you trying
to find the best way to run Guix under MacOS? Or is either OK?

Best,
Wojtek

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On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 21:50:33 +0900 Yasuaki Kudo <yasu@yasuaki.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> 
> I started to experiment with VSCode DevContainers, to see if it is 
> possible for Linux/Windows/Macintosh users to share the same Linux 
> development environment.
> 
> https://github.com/yugawara/xeyes
> 
> I work at a worker cooperative ( our federation site is here at 
> https://patio.coop ) and one thing we have in common is to work from 
> various places on the planet and we like having all services that make 
> up a (web) application on our laptop computers, etc.
> 
> As we all know, the way Docker works means there is horrendous waste on 
> hard drives and network.  So I am thinking of using Guix.  However, I 
> understand that there is no native support for Guix for Macintosh.
> 
> Although I am not terribly sure (yet) how Guix may or may not help with 
> script specific packages such as NPM..., my biggest question is how a 
> Mancintosh user can take advantage of Guix.
> 
> There are quite a lot of programmers with those shiny Mac Laptops...  Of 
> course, as a last resort, there must be some Intel emulators for these 
> so one can install Linux and Windows on top of them but I wonder if:
> 
> * Guix Package Manger can be installed within a Docker Container which 
> can be hosted on a Macintosh?
> 
> The reason I am asking about Mac in particular is that Windows does a 
> decent Linux emulation with WSL2 and my solution would seem to work.  I 
> just don't have any Mac hardware so I cannot tell for sure if this is at 
> all viable...
> 
> If it does, although this might be a little convoluted but I think we 
> can use Guix as part of a Docker container that is meant for programmers 
> in the same development team.
> 
> 
> Many thanks  in advance!!
> 
> -Yasu
> 
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