hpcguix-web, channels, and inferiors

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello Guix!

There’s a little-known but neat program that Roel Janssen wrote called
hpcguix-web.  It’s a web UI (with JavaScript) that allows you to browse
packages; the UI can be customized, and Roel’s institution, for
instance, customizes it to provide instructions for their clusters.  You
can see it in action here:

  https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/browse

Until now hpcguix-web would just allow you to browse the list of
packages of the Guix it was built against (it used ’fold-packages’,
etc.)

With channels and inferiors now in the house, I’ve tweaked it so that it
would periodically build the latest Guix, run it as an inferior, and
build the package list from there:

  
https://github.com/UMCUGenetics/hpcguix-web/commit/e0a9a1ae35a422ba46e55f5e63441599ee53100e

That’s all I wanted to share.  :-)

Ludo’.