From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Griffin Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] gnu: Add ledger. Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 16:05:57 -0500 Message-ID: <1463173557.4042476.607311345.1A7582D5@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1462646320.1130194.601019473.51C9DD36@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1462648816.1139014.601038209.3A886EEC@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20160507222330.GA16592@jasmine> <1462673448.1215366.601202601.6F8B62D7@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20160509033906.GC25977@jasmine> <8737prou9x.fsf@gnu.org> <20160509210103.GB15057@jasmine> <1463023686.3455318.605409553.05451A73@webmail.messagingengine.com> <878tzf1vxu.fsf@gmail.com> <1463070674.3638408.605951137.5C3DB897@webmail.messagingengine.com> <87posp7oqa.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57875) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b1KHq-00069H-Ec for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2016 17:06:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b1KHi-0003fA-Ne for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2016 17:06:17 -0400 Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:32828) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b1KHg-0003ct-7q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2016 17:06:10 -0400 Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDC71203BB for ; Fri, 13 May 2016 17:05:57 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87posp7oqa.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Alex Kost Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org I don't know whether parallel builds should be enabled or disabled. My initial thought was that it makes sense if it allows ledger to build on more machines. On the other hand, the more general fix (one that will also work on lots of other packages) is simply to allocate more swap on those machines. On Fri, May 13, 2016, at 02:16 PM, Alex Kost wrote: > Overall, here is how I would write 'arguments' field of this package: [...] Since I wrote this package largely by copying other packages I found, I'm curious how I would ever learn some of this stuff. How do I know which variables are available in different parts of the package definition, and similar details? I could probably just continue diving deeper into the source, but since it's guile I suspect there's some way to explore interactively. I'm just not sure how; my REPL fu is weak. -- Alex Griffin