From 71cb96ff71b587eaa5a060a82dd41c78a04d788e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Kost Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 11:11:57 +0300 Subject: README: Mention differences between Cuirass and Hydra --- README.org | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.org b/README.org index 0aa5415..a7f8ed0 100644 --- a/README.org +++ b/README.org @@ -33,3 +33,16 @@ These lists provide some key bindings, the main of which are: - =h= (hint): allows you to look at the provided key bindings; - =RET=: displays "info" buffer for the current entry or several marked entries (marked with =m= key). + +* Differences between Cuirass and Hydra + +In the beginning there was Nix, and Hydra was its build farm. Then +there appeared Guix which is technically very similar to Nix, except it +is written in Guile. At first, Guix also used Hydra. Then Guix decided +to make its own build farm, also written in Guile. So there appeared +Cuirass. And Cuirass was very similar to Hydra, but afterwards it +diverged quite a lot. + +In particular, Cuirass does not have a notion of "project" anymore. +Hydra has "projects" and "jobsets" inside each project. But Cuirass +decided that projects are not needed, so it has only "jobsets". -- cgit v1.2.3