From: Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Python 2 end-of-life?
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 05:42:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191129134239.GA77005@PhantoNv4ArchGx.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ3okZ2kpKxTJzyYeLu0Go+XW1qHS-rbPqjQ3XB-4Gt-AYaDvQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi zimoun,
On +2019-11-29 12:41:43 +0100, zimoun wrote:
> Hi Bengt,
>
[...]
>
> > > > That's yet another question: could we patch the upstream code to replace
> > > > Python by something else that's more convenient for Guix. That may
> > > > actually be a worthwhile approach to reduce software bloat in Guix,
> > > > but it also shifts some of the maintenance burden from upstream to Guix.
> > >
> > > It does not appear to me a reasonable approach.
> >
> > If it could be an automated patch substitution of a pure guix function that
> > will pass the same well-designed test suite as the python function it replaces,
> > then I think it is entirely reasonable. We are not asking upstream to do anything,
> > other than providing a well-designed test suite that will serve themselves well.
>
> Please show me the code and I will change my mind about the
> "reasonable approach". :-)
>
> And what do we win? More reproducibility? More bootstrappability?
>
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._A._R._Hoare#The_Emperor's_Old_Clothes
The first quote in particular ;-)
>
> All the best,
> simon
--
Regards,
Bengt Richter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-29 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-31 15:39 Python 2 end-of-life? zimoun
2019-11-21 11:46 ` zimoun
2019-11-21 12:01 ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-26 16:51 ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-26 17:50 ` Hartmut Goebel
2019-11-26 18:55 ` ng0
2019-11-27 8:28 ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-27 17:41 ` zimoun
2019-11-26 21:51 ` Bengt Richter
2019-11-27 7:56 ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-27 17:35 ` zimoun
2019-11-29 6:07 ` Bengt Richter
2019-11-29 7:38 ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-29 12:12 ` zimoun
2019-11-29 11:41 ` zimoun
2019-11-29 13:42 ` Bengt Richter [this message]
2019-11-29 14:12 ` zimoun
2019-11-29 22:16 ` Bengt Richter
2019-11-27 17:28 ` zimoun
2019-11-27 17:43 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-11-29 6:54 ` Bengt Richter
2019-11-29 11:55 ` zimoun
2019-11-28 14:40 ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-28 15:50 ` Hartmut Goebel
2019-11-28 18:22 ` zimoun
2019-11-21 17:28 ` Alex Griffin
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