From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
To: "Andrew Tropin" <andrew@trop.in>,
guix-devel@gnu.org, "Oleg Pykhalov" <go.wigust@gmail.com>,
"Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz>, guix-maintainers@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Return back original implementation for text-config serialization
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2022 13:17:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <537be85d93ee05aa8f33a7432bd97458bbf6a23a.camel@telenet.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878rvp1deg.fsf@trop.in>
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Andrew Tropin schreef op zo 09-01-2022 om 12:12 [+0300]:
> [...] There is another less generalized example, which demonstrates
> how
> serialization of sway configuration works right now.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> `((include ,(local-file "./sway/config"))
> (bindsym $mod+Ctrl+Shift+a exec
> ,(file-append emacs "/bin/emacsclient") -c --eval
> "'(eshell)'")
> (bindsym $mod+Ctrl+Shift+o "[class=\"IceCat\"]" kill)
> (input * ((xkb_layout us,ru)
> (xkb_variant dvorak,))))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> would yield something like:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> include /gnu/store/408jwvh6wxxn1j85lj95fniih05gx5xj-config
> bindsym $mod+Ctrl+Shift+a exec /gnu/store/...-emacsclient -c --eval
> '(eshell)'
> bindsym $mod+Ctrl+Shift+o [class="IceCat"] kill
> input * {
> xkb_layout us,ru
> xkb_variant dvorak,
> }
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> The new text-config serialization implementation (after fee0bc
> commit)
> doesn't support gexps and tries to insert the literal content of the
> file in place where file-like object was used, which
>
> 1. Confuses the users. [...]
> 2. Looks strange implementation-wise. [...]
> (mixed-text-file ...
> "source \" "\n"
> #~(read-everything-from-file
> #$(computed-file "unecessary-file-name"
> #~#$(local-file "blabla.sh"))))
> when originally it was
> (mixed-text-file
> "source \" "\n"
> (local-file "blabla.sh"))
Can we have (mixed-text-file "source \" "\n" (local-file "blabla.sh"))
and the sway configuration you quoted? That syntax seems reasonable
and easy to use to me. But without reintroducing slurp-file-gexp.
Greetings,
Maxime.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-09 12:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-09 9:12 Return back original implementation for text-config serialization Andrew Tropin
2022-01-09 11:19 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-09 17:48 ` Andrew Tropin
2022-01-09 19:44 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-10 9:49 ` Andrew Tropin
2022-01-10 20:12 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-12 15:05 ` Andrew Tropin
2022-01-09 12:17 ` Maxime Devos [this message]
2022-01-09 12:19 ` Maxime Devos
2022-01-09 17:59 ` Andrew Tropin
2022-01-09 19:00 ` Maxime Devos
2022-01-18 14:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-01-20 13:20 ` Andrew Tropin
2022-01-21 9:30 ` Maxime Devos
2022-01-26 8:34 ` Andrew Tropin
2022-01-27 5:04 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-01-28 15:48 ` Andrew Tropin
2022-02-05 11:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-13 14:14 ` Andrew Tropin
2022-01-26 8:36 ` Andrew Tropin
2022-02-05 11:34 ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-13 14:09 ` Andrew Tropin
2022-01-24 15:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-01-26 9:11 ` Andrew Tropin
2022-01-26 9:21 ` Andrew Tropin
2022-02-05 14:43 ` Xinglu Chen
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