On Sun, 14 Jan 2018 17:43:27 +0100
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote:
> Gábor Boskovits wrote on 14/01/18 at 17:13:
> > Maybe we could use guix to check for these, and some
> > other things could also be spotted.
> > WDYT?
>
> Agreed, I think.
Yeah, +1
> We should be able to improve the quality of these guesses: the
> repository URI is about as likely to be foo://bar/<package>... as a
> regular tarball URI.
>
> Or we make a file-name mandatory for certain methods.
I agree that some heuristics to figure out the file-name from (svn-reference-url ref) would be nice.
It's not that important that the store filenames are meaningful to humans, it's just nice-to-have. So I'd say heuristic it and be done with it.
On second thought, maybe even default file-name to the Guix package name (if possible at this point in Guix). The hash value will make it unique regardless (for example if there are multiple svn-download blocks in the same package)