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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz>,
	guix-maintainers@gnu.org, Andrew Tropin <andrew@trop.in>
Subject: Re: Return back original implementation for text-config serialization
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2022 12:09:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877da9lgce.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fsp922ia.fsf@gmail.com> (Maxim Cournoyer's message of "Thu, 27 Jan 2022 00:04:13 -0500")

Hi!

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:

> Pardon my ignorance about Guix Home, but couldn't we have configuration
> as records by default, and the lower level, config stitching primitives
> still available to hand craft strings that could be used as the value of
> an 'extra-config' field, for example?
>
> It seems to me the use of records for configurations in Guix Home would
> be the natural choice, as Guix System users are already familiar with
> them and it leans to better discoverability/documentation.

Guix Home uses records for configuration and the same service as Guix
System, and I think it’s important that it remain this way for the
reasons you give and also from a maintenance viewpoint.

Ludo’.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-02-05 11:10 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
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 [this message]
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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