From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Guix records Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 18:36:17 +0100 Message-ID: <87zgzqwx2m.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lfc2e9vn.fsf@clara> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36578"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) To: guile-user@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:RkerpQumXpoXM2Qgm2KSaHJgjxI= Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 26 18:36:37 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lFh2b-0009Ow-AF for guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2021 18:36:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40024 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lFh2a-0006Vf-Ar for guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2021 12:36:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52178) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lFh2Q-0006VD-Cj for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2021 12:36:26 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:59796) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lFh2P-0003kc-5P for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2021 12:36:26 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lFh2L-00096T-Qj for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2021 18:36:21 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 8 =?utf-8?Q?Vent=C3=B4se?= an 229 de la =?utf-8?Q?R?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.lisp.guile.user:17319 Archived-At: Hi, Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions skribis: > In the module (guix records), there's some very nice syntax rule > `define-record-type*` that allows very powerfull declarative style of > records. For example: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > (employee > (age 30) > (name "Foo") > (profession "Teacher")) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I would like to use this feature in my software. However, I don't want > to have Guix as a dependency only for that. For now, I've copied the > content of (guix records) into (my-software records). But this put > burden of maitenance into my hands. I think it’s a reasonable maintenance burden though, since it’s fairly independent, it rarely changes, and you can always copy updated versions from Guix when you want to. That said, I agree it’s not ideal, and we should look towards making it a standalone library. I’m a bit reluctant to doing that just yet because it’s convenient in Guix to be able to adjust it when we need it. Thanks, Ludo’.