[Nix-dev] [***SPAM***] Re: GNU Guix 0.1 released (alpha)

[Michael Raskin]

>>> Do you mean the opposite–generating Guix expressions from Nix?
>>
>> I actually meant guix -> nix, as guix being within a full language, I
>> had gut feeling this direction might be preferable, see also below.
>
>I think conversion has the same problem in both directions: simple
>meta-data is trivially converted, but anything beyond that, especially
>builder-side code, can hardly be automatically converted.

Can't Guix launch sh with all needed variables set?

It could even pass it the builder.