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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>, 56114@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56114: Guix does not have a documented general and practical procedure for lowering a single lowerable object to the /gnu/store/... string.
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 09:57:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wncs56w0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <865ykczgh7.fsf@gmail.com> (zimoun's message of "Mon, 04 Jul 2022 23:59:48 +0200")

Hi,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:

> My comment was about an unrelated thing.

I don’t take comments about unrelated things.  ;-)

> Well, I do not use every day G-exp nor ’plain-file’ and the like.  The
> interface appears to me unexpected each time I use it but hey I can
> live with it. :-) However, the documentation (or docstring) does not
> appear clear, each time I have my «aaah right!» moment.

[...]

> it is hard to guess beforehand that ’plain-file’ and ’mixed-text-file’
> do not return the same type of file-like object.

As someone who writes gexps and manipulates “file-like objects”, it
doesn’t matter whether a thing lowers to a derivation or to a plain
store item.  What matters is that you can insert it in a gexp and it’ll
do the right thing.  That’s why the docstrings don’t insist on that
difference.

Hope it makes sense!

Ludo’.




  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-05  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-20 21:01 bug#56114: Guix does not have a documented general and practical procedure for lowering a single lowerable object to the /gnu/store/... string Maxime Devos
2022-07-03 20:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-07-04 15:43   ` zimoun
2022-07-04 20:13     ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-07-04 21:59       ` zimoun
2022-07-05  7:57         ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2022-07-05 10:13           ` zimoun
2022-07-10 20:03             ` Joshua Branson via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-07-15 15:41               ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-07-19 14:10                 ` Maxime Devos
2022-07-07 22:25 ` jbranso--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix

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