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From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
To: Brian Cully <bjc@spork.org>
Cc: 42164@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42164: Combining file-append with gexps results in incomprehensible errors
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 20:38:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2bda48c996ac6b0bae970d8e5559675d6984ac51.camel@telenet.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bkwrk7zk.fsf@ditto.jhoto.spork.org>

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Brian Cully schreef op za 23-04-2022 om 13:29 [-0400]:
> 	I like this, and would prefer it over the ‘list’ proposal. I’m
> not sure how to implement it given my limited knowledge of Guix
> internals, though. Special-casing a list inside of file-append was
> fairly straightforward and solved the immediate issue.

Proposed implementation:

(define (output thing output)
  (gexp-input package output))

Seems like this thing already exists, it's just not well-known and not
documented in the manual.

Greetings,
Maxime

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-23 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-02 12:00 bug#42164: Combining file-append with gexps results in incomprehensible errors Jakub Kądziołka
2021-04-13  1:58 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-04-23 16:03 ` Brian Cully
2022-04-23 17:06   ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-23 17:29     ` Brian Cully
2022-04-23 18:38       ` Maxime Devos [this message]
2022-04-23 20:40         ` Brian Cully
2022-04-23 21:07           ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-24 23:27             ` Brian Cully
2022-04-25  6:20               ` Maxime Devos

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