From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: A registry for distributed sources and binaries Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 09:41:49 +0200 Message-ID: <20160724074149.GA21939@thebird.nl> References: <579027b7.VHXjhpPxQC3AAmeY%pjotr.public12@email> <8760rznoh1.fsf@gnu.org> <20160722004130.GA10340@thebird.nl> <874m7hk6dz.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <20160724033027.GA20236@thebird.nl> <87shuzwqmn.fsf@netris.org> <20160724072949.GB7190@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34266) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bRE6I-0002P0-Kb for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 03:45:27 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bRE6E-0003dA-I2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 03:45:25 -0400 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([95.154.246.10]:45214) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bRE6E-0003d6-CF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 03:45:22 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160724072949.GB7190@jasmine> 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: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 03:29:49AM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > If we did choose to present a stable API, we would need people to > maintain it. In my mind we don't need much of an API. We need a way for plugins to tell what hooks they provide and then call into these hooks. That is all. Plugins don't get access to Guix internals per se - though we could run them in the same space. At least for packages I agree we don't need much support. But maybe I got it wrong ;) Pj.