From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Consolidating Go packages
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:40:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190815184058.GA24201@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190815081906.GA27046@E2140>
On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 11:19:06AM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> So to summarize, while it is techincally possible to "build" them, in
> actuality they are used in source code form as part of the build
> process.
That's true for Guix but not if you were building Go software outside of
Guix. In that case they would be compiled and re-used through the use of
Go's built-in memoized cache (it's very similar to what Guix does). It's
basically a limitation or bug in our go-build-system that re-using
compiled Go objects does not work.
> So, either it should be just a "source snippet" or it should be a hidden
> package.
Nobody needs to install these libraries but they should be packages so
they show up in the Guix UI (`guix package --show`). I think we can
treat them like other shared library packages. And there is currently
some "building" from our point of view — a package-specific filesystem
hierarchy is created.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-15 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-14 19:06 Consolidating Go packages Leo Famulari
2019-08-15 8:19 ` Efraim Flashner
2019-08-15 18:40 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2019-10-17 18:38 ` Leo Famulari
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