From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A registry for distributed sources and binaries
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 03:29:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160724072949.GB7190@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shuzwqmn.fsf@netris.org>
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 01:29:20AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Long ago, the Linux developers made a conscious decision to not support
> out-of-tree drivers, for much the same reasons. Many times over the
> years, they have made changes to their internal APIs that required
> corresponding changes to a large number of drivers. As a result, they
> have been able to keep their internal interfaces clean and free of
> backward-compatibility cruft.
If we did choose to present a stable API, we would need people to
maintain it.
There is so much "grunt work" required already. Upstream URLs are
changed, security bugs are disclosed, core package updates break a big
part of the package tree, etc. Most of this work requires little
knowledge, but lots of time and attention. Not to mention patch
review, which is hard work...
Not enough people are paying attention to this "boring stuff", in my
opinion.
On the other hand, there are many new packages and features, which is
*awesome*! But, if the boring stuff is ignored, the distro will fall
apart, and nobody would want to use this hypothetical API anyways.
By the way, I have a small set of private packages. I haven't needed to
adapt them to changes in GNU Guix so far. Breakage of external repos may
be rare enough that GNU Guix developers could ignore it entirely.
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2016-07-21 1:39 (unknown) Unknown, Pjotr Prins
2016-07-21 1:42 ` [PATCH] gnu: Add elixir Pjotr Prins
2016-07-21 11:43 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-07-21 12:00 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-07-22 5:26 ` Leo Famulari
2016-07-22 12:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-22 14:12 ` Leo Famulari
2016-07-21 12:51 ` none Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-22 0:41 ` none Pjotr Prins
2016-07-22 2:06 ` none Pjotr Prins
2016-07-22 3:25 ` none Jookia
2016-07-22 3:48 ` none Leo Famulari
2016-07-22 4:48 ` none Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2016-07-22 11:07 ` none Pjotr Prins
2016-07-22 12:23 ` none Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-22 12:50 ` none Jookia
2016-07-22 21:19 ` none Leo Famulari
2016-07-24 4:17 ` none Jookia
2016-07-24 6:35 ` none Leo Famulari
2016-07-24 7:47 ` none Jookia
2016-07-24 16:52 ` none Christopher Allan Webber
2016-07-24 17:03 ` none Andreas Enge
2016-07-22 8:15 ` none Roel Janssen
2016-07-22 14:07 ` none Leo Famulari
2016-07-22 14:15 ` none Vincent Legoll
2016-07-22 16:13 ` none Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-22 16:38 ` none myglc2
2016-07-23 7:03 ` none Tomáš Čech
2016-07-22 16:02 ` Review process Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-23 2:24 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-07-23 9:05 ` Alex Kost
2016-07-23 9:51 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-07-24 8:02 ` Alex Kost
2016-07-24 10:38 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-07-24 14:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-24 3:30 ` A registry for distributed sources and binaries Pjotr Prins
2016-07-24 5:10 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2016-07-24 5:16 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-07-24 5:24 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-07-24 5:29 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-07-24 5:48 ` Jookia
2016-07-24 6:37 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2016-07-24 7:49 ` Jookia
2016-07-24 20:02 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-24 6:28 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2016-07-24 7:02 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-07-24 7:29 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-07-24 7:41 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-07-24 9:50 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-07-24 22:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-24 13:58 ` Andreas Enge
2016-07-24 15:21 ` Jookia
2016-07-24 15:58 ` Andreas Enge
2016-07-24 17:18 ` replying to a message of a mailing list you were not subscribed to Danny Milosavljevic
2016-07-24 17:25 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-07-25 5:38 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-25 7:34 ` icecat "mailto" handler does not work - and cannot be reconfigured by user Danny Milosavljevic
2020-10-13 13:23 ` bug#24066: " Maxim Cournoyer
2016-07-24 18:50 ` A registry for distributed sources and binaries John Darrington
2016-07-25 9:14 ` Replying to bug reports Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-25 8:25 ` A registry for distributed sources and binaries Andy Wingo
2016-07-25 22:00 ` Reviewer assignment Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-24 20:35 ` A registry for distributed sources and binaries Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-25 2:10 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-07-25 3:42 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2016-07-25 4:57 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-07-25 7:18 ` Tomáš Čech
2016-07-25 9:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-26 3:40 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-07-26 3:45 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-07-25 6:13 ` [PATCH] Add Elixir (was: ) Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-25 6:31 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-07-28 7:27 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-28 8:30 ` Vincent Legoll
2016-07-28 10:35 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-07-28 20:35 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-29 2:38 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-07-29 6:32 ` Vincent Legoll
2016-08-02 8:56 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-02 14:30 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-08-02 8:44 ` [PATCH] Add Elixir Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-02 14:29 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-08-02 17:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-02 21:25 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-03 4:41 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-08-09 11:18 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-08-09 11:58 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
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