From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution
<guix-devel@gnu.org>, Ryan Prior <ryanprior@hey.com>
Subject: Re: Finding versions of packages
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 14:03:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86y2hzmdbb.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878s9znwt4.fsf@gnu.org>
Hi,
On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 12:16, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> However, doing such composition on a per-package basis and as the
> default way of composing packages is inefficient and, more importantly,
> the resulting compositions may not work. A package written for Python 2
> may not work with Python 3, and so on.
About inefficiency, I agree. The number of inferiors should be
minimized, IMHO.
By “the resulting composition may not work”, you mean that what is
propagated may be incompatible, right? For example, bytecode or ABI
incompatibilities.
Cheers,
simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-15 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-12 22:08 Finding versions of packages (was: [outreachy] Walk through the Git history) Ryan Prior
2020-12-14 10:38 ` Finding versions of packages Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-14 12:41 ` zimoun
2020-12-15 11:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-15 13:03 ` zimoun [this message]
2020-12-18 15:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-14 12:31 ` Finding versions of packages (was: [outreachy] Walk through the Git history) zimoun
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