bug#32132: daemon store names can't start with a dot

bug#32132: daemon store names can't start with a dot

[Clément Lassieur]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hello Clément,
>
> Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> skribis:
>
>> Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Can you provide some context why this is necessary, maybe even
>>> in the commit message?
>>
>> It's necessary when you want to package a program whose source looks
>> like file:///home/foo/.bar.
>
> I’d rather not make this kind of change.  In general, I think we should
> be very conservative about changes to the daemon and its protocol,
> because that’s the common denominator of all the versions of Guix.
>
> If we change something like it, then we’ll get subtle breakage depending
> on the version of the daemon in use.
>
> WDYT?

Okay, let's abandon this then :-)

CCing bug-guix because I still think it's a bug; please close it if you
disagree.

Clément

bug#32132: daemon store names can't start with a dot

[Clément Lassieur]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Looks like you already closed it (or was it me?).

Well, I closed 32111 (guix-patches) but I opened 32132 (bug-guix) with a
wontfix tag, so that people can find it easily if they stumble across
the issue.

> Anyway, it’s certainly a limitation, but given that it’s an annoyance
> more than a showstopper (in my view at least), I’m in favor keeping
> things this way for the sake of compatibility.

Agreed :-)