From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: guix import crate wraps #:cargo-inputs twice Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 15:45:18 -0500 Message-ID: <20190703204518.og46lx25qv63hxt4@thebird.nl> References: <874l4ili56.fsf@web.de> <87y31isrhg.fsf@web.de> <87v9wk275q.fsf@jlicht.xyz> <02ECCF12-80D7-4123-86C4-06F5A5B082F7@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34851) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1himDb-0006aP-K6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jul 2019 16:51:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1himDa-00020O-F5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jul 2019 16:51:07 -0400 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([94.142.245.5]:39466) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1himDa-0001zx-9W for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jul 2019 16:51:06 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <02ECCF12-80D7-4123-86C4-06F5A5B082F7@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: Ivan Petkov Cc: Guix-devel Dear all, We also have a Rust tool we want to package in Guix, but Rust (like Go and JS) appears to encourage an insane list of dependencies: https://github.com/chfi/rust-qtlreaper/blob/master/Cargo.lock Look at this list. This is for a very simple tool that does some input, output and a computation!! At the moment I am inclined to run Cargo after the Guix install. A bit similar to what we did with Go and IPFS earlier.=20 A working importer would be great news. Same for Racket, btw.=20 Pj. On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 09:08:16AM -0700, Ivan Petkov wrote: > Hi Jelle, >=20 > On Jul 2, 2019, at 1:05 AM, Jelle Licht <[1]jlicht@fsfe.org> wrote: >=20 > Shameless plug; I have some guile code lying around for dealing > with exactly these problems; `guile-semver'[1] might give you a star= t > for handling these cases. > [1]: [2]https://notabug.org/jlicht/guile-semver >=20 > Fantastic, this looks super promising! I have some ideas on how we >=20 > could integrate this into the importer, I=E2=80=99ll take a closer l= ook when I > get >=20 > the chance! >=20 > =E2=80=94Ivan >=20 > References >=20 > 1. mailto:jlicht@fsfe.org > 2. https://notabug.org/jlicht/guile-semver