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From: David Pirotte <david@altosw.be>
To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Release!
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 09:21:31 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171007092131.650aaaae@capac> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ce7885ac-ed28-c176-8c54-e7c25ec32451@crazy-compilers.com>

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Hello Hartmut,

> > so why would we 'abandon' s-exp, what would we win here?  

> It might be interesting to *create* these files using tools written in
> other programming languages. And modules for creating *JSON* are
> available for most programming languages.

But that would be another tool, another package manager, not potluck... written by
we don't know who, neither when ... and that would be a totally separate effort,
that would not contribute to potluck ... which needs help (I wish I had the time...)

Potluck package definitions are generated, adjusted 'by hand' - mostly to update
the description, sometimes the copyright - then that is used to generated a Guix
package, which is a Guile scheme module: It makes no sense to me that the
potluck package representation would be anything but s-expr:

	actually, most guilers do the exact opposite :) -  when an app or a lib
	either produces or needs xml, html, json ... the first thing they do is to
	transform these into s-expr, so these become (a lot more) readable and
	hackable ...

> (OTOH TOML[]1] could be a better format than JSON – it's much like
> .ini-files, but more formal specification...

Absolutely terrible :):) I hope we never do that, at least not for the 'official'
and maintained potluck package representation.

Again, my 2c.
David


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  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-07 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-24 13:11 What’s next? Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-24 13:23 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-05-27 10:01   ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-27 21:44     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-05-28 20:44       ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-28 21:36         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-05-30 15:55           ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-24 15:52 ` Brendan Tildesley
2017-05-27 10:04   ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-28 20:41     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2017-05-30 15:17       ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-03 21:16         ` Maxim Cournoyer
2017-05-24 16:09 ` Catonano
2017-05-24 16:25 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-05-24 18:40   ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-05-24 19:34   ` Catonano
2017-05-24 19:56     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-05-30  0:09       ` myglc2
2017-05-24 21:47     ` Leo Famulari
2017-05-24 21:45   ` Leo Famulari
2017-05-25  8:11     ` What???s next? Pjotr Prins
2017-05-27 10:16       ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-28  7:30         ` What's next? Pjotr Prins
2017-05-28 20:48           ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-28 22:05             ` Roel Janssen
2017-05-30 15:19               ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-30 20:15                 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-05-29  2:31             ` Maxim Cournoyer
2017-05-28 20:37         ` What???s next? Maxim Cournoyer
2017-05-28 21:34           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-05-30 15:14           ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-25 14:57     ` What’s next? Chris Marusich
2017-05-25 18:32       ` Leo Famulari
2017-05-25 20:01       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-05-25 20:41         ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-05-27 10:13         ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-29 23:28           ` myglc2
2017-06-08 14:35           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-05-27 10:09   ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-04 15:12 ` Release! Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-05 19:18   ` Release! Christopher Baines
2017-10-06 13:01     ` Release! Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-09  7:25       ` Release! Christopher Baines
2017-10-09 16:25         ` Release! Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-06 18:30   ` Release! Ricardo Wurmus
2017-10-06 23:31     ` Release! David Pirotte
2017-10-07  9:18       ` Release! Hartmut Goebel
2017-10-07 12:21         ` David Pirotte [this message]
2017-10-07 21:30       ` Release! Ricardo Wurmus
2017-10-08 13:08         ` Release! Hartmut Goebel
2017-10-07  4:06     ` [PATCH] DRAFT: build: Compile scheme modules in batches (was Re: Release!) Mark H Weaver
2017-10-07 19:35       ` Efraim Flashner
2017-10-08  9:19       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-10-08 12:03         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-10-08 13:26           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-10-09  7:38             ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-09 11:32               ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-10-10  6:52                 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-10-09  7:42       ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-09  7:53     ` Release! Ludovic Courtès
2017-11-20 22:07     ` Release! Ludovic Courtès
2017-11-30 10:40     ` Release! Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-01  2:57       ` Release! Maxim Cournoyer
2017-12-01 18:30       ` Release! Leo Famulari
2017-12-01 19:32         ` Release! Ricardo Wurmus
2017-12-04  8:53           ` Release! Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-04  8:58           ` ISO image available for testing! Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-04 21:35             ` Christopher Baines
2017-12-04 22:34               ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-05 22:47               ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-06  0:52                 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-12-06  1:17                   ` Ben Woodcroft
2017-12-06  2:16                   ` native-inputs ending up as run-time references [was: ISO image available for testing!] Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2017-12-06  3:18                     ` Leo Famulari
2017-12-06  3:48                       ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2017-12-06  8:04                   ` ISO image available for testing! Mark H Weaver
2017-12-06  8:14                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-06 16:29                     ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2017-12-07 20:09                 ` Christopher Baines
2017-12-07 21:19                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-04  8:52         ` Release! Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-05  2:47           ` Release! Maxim Cournoyer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-06-03 16:41 Release v1.4? Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-06 21:17 ` Merging ‘staging’? Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-08 11:50   ` Efraim Flashner
2022-06-08 21:24     ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-10  7:57       ` Efraim Flashner
2022-06-11  9:53         ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-12  3:58           ` Efraim Flashner
2022-06-12 21:08             ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-13  7:03               ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-14 10:32                 ` Release ? (was: Merging ‘staging’?) zimoun
2022-06-14 13:08                   ` Efraim Flashner
2022-06-15  9:21                     ` Release ? Ludovic Courtès

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