<jmd>Do we have a potential legal problem here: <a_e>jmd: I am just reading up on yesterday's log. Regarding the configure problems, one may use "setenv" to set the SHELL variable. See ffmpeg, for instance. <jmd>a_e: Thanks. I think I have solved that problem though. <jmd>(See the patches I posted to the mailing list) <Steap>jmd: ouch, that GUIX thing might be an issue <jmd>Steap: At the very least it could be a cause for confusion. <jmd>But I'm surprised that I (and no-one else) had noticed it before. <Steap>jmd: do you know when this Guix thing started ? <Steap>jmd: don't know about you, but when I type Guix in Duckduckgo/Google, GNU Guix comes first :) <jmd>When did our project start? more precisely when was it publically announced? <Steap>it became a GNU project on November the 23rd, 2012 <Steap>First commit on April 18th, 2012 <jmd>So at least 12 months ago. <jmd>Anyway, I think somebody who is legally savvy should look into it right away, in case we get problems. <Steap>I'll ping civodul about that <jmd>There is a press release dated October 29 2013 which says "Today Introduced". <jmd>So we have first claim. But they have a trademark :( <jmd>I dunno if trademarks can be challenged on grounds of prior use ... <Steap>jmd: And the law is nto the same in all countries :) <Steap>So as usual, the strongest guy wins <Steap>Is GNU more or less powerful than the other guys ? :p <jmd>Yep. Anyway it looks like somebody should investigate and take whatever action... ***gazoombo_ is now known as gazoombo
<jmd>When do we get a bootable guix? *jxself points to the QEMU image <viric>hm I need help from a French; civodul not here... any French? <civodul>gonna be the name of our package GUI <Steap>jmd suggested that this might be a legal issue <civodul>the spelling is different, different application, etc. <Steap>how is the spelling different ? <Steap>not sure whether you'd be great in a legal department <civodul>and it's really "graphical user interface" <civodul>the very opposite of what we're doing here ;-) <Steap>where do the tests happen ? The cwd seems to be /homeless-shelter, but this directory does not exist, does it ? <civodul>/homeless-shelter is the default value of $HOME in the build env <civodul>by default cwd is the $top_srcdir during the whole process <Steap>funny, in the Python tests, it cannot be found <Steap>the current working directory <Steap>the call to os.getcwd() fails, iirc <Steap>there is another issue where they use /bin/sh <Steap>and I intend to submit a patch to the Python folks <Steap>there are a lot of failing tests, but only a few root causes :) *civodul packages guile-xcb while waiting for another build to complete <Steap>civodul: currently, the tests are disabled *jxself checks is email for an announcement to info-gnu <civodul>i know it's a positive version number, but still ;-) <Steap>Why not use systemd, as everybody does ? <jxself>Systemd is 2010? Doesn't DMD predate it? <civodul>then there was some sort of a slowdown in the development process <viric>Steap: what is "Chien de voleur!" ? <Steap>so it's someone insulting a thief 
