From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mathieu Lirzin Subject: Re: Add a generalized git-file? to Guix? Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 18:47:37 +0100 Message-ID: <877f6132va.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87twkpkdpw.fsf@drakenvlieg.flower> <87eg0eouv6.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8b1fg7q.fsf@dustycloud.org> <871swbe7ev.fsf@gnu.org> <87eg0ag9q8.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87bmvdfwdz.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45769) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cRMzt-0002vN-Gf for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2017 12:47:42 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cRMzs-0006SI-BC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2017 12:47:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87bmvdfwdz.fsf@dustycloud.org> (Christopher Allan Webber's message of "Wed, 11 Jan 2017 09:29:12 -0600") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Christopher Allan Webber Cc: Guix-devel Hi, Christopher Allan Webber writes: > Thompson, David writes: > >> Hi Christopher and Jan, >> >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Christopher Allan Webber >> wrote: >>> Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: >>> >>>> Christopher Allan Webber writes: >>>> >>>>> Thanks! >>>>> >>>>> The file is updated, and even nicer now, since I'm using a hack from >>>>> guile-sdl2 which allows you to set the source to the whole checkout. >>>> >>>> Ohh! That needs to go in the Guix manual... could git-file? be added >>>> to guix/utils? >>> >>> Maybe! I think David knows more about the provenance? >> >> I took this code from Ludovic. See make-git-predicate in >> gnu/packages/package-management.scm in the Guix source tree. >> >>> I agree it would be nice to have in Guix itself. >> >> Agreed. A generalized and publicly available procedure would be great. >> >> - Dave > > Hello! See the above conversation... 8sync now uses `git-file?' in its > guix.scm, a predicate check which allows for checking out the whole > local directory as a "source" for testing a package. I borrowed it from > Dave who originally adapted it from some code in Guix itself. See: > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/8sync.git/tree/guix.scm#n62 > > This is pretty handy; probably other projects would like to make use of > it. What do we think of making it a generally available utility? I would make use of it and I am in favour of adding it to Guix. Thanks. -- Mathieu Lirzin GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37