pinoaffe schreef op zo 19-09-2021 om 15:01 [+0200]:
> Hi guix,
> 
> Recently, I made an effort to get the guix-npm binary importer working
> in combination with a relatively "modern" guix - my changes are rather
> hacky and I think I may have broken a thing or two, but i got it to work
> reasonably well in the REPL.
> (many thanks to Jelle Licht and possibly others who initially wrote the importer)
> 
> Considering that such a binary importer is probably not well-suited for
> inclusion in guix-proper, I would like to make it available through an
> additional channel, mostly for my own use but maybe also for others.
> 
> However, the commandline interface for ~guix import~ operates based on a
> list of importers in (guix scripts import) in guix proper - is there a
> way to replace this functionality so that additional guix channels could
> "extend" the list of importers?

(guix scripts import) could scan the subdirectories guix/scripts/import of
%load-path for importers.  See 'importer-modules' and '%updaters' in
(guix upstream) for how to do this.

Greetings,
Maxime.