From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>,
David Craven <david@craven.ch>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to get the package metadata as structured data?
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 23:08:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8gss0mc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL1_immqXKMgvKx8yFq41-52RiDRJZ_QDODEd4VwZ-iHZtb1cQ@mail.gmail.com> (David Craven's message of "Thu, 4 Aug 2016 22:49:37 +0200")
Hi!
David Craven <david@craven.ch> skribis:
> All package metadata can be accessed easily through scheme. There is
> no way to export this data currently, although it probably wouldn't be
> too hard to implement.
One way is:
guix package -s .
which returns a recutils database¹, which is essentially plain text.
Alternately we could write a snippet to export it as JSON if you prefer.
Ludo’.
¹ https://gnu.org/s/recutils/manual/html_node/The-Rec-Format.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-04 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-04 20:49 How to get the package metadata as structured data? David Craven
2016-08-04 21:08 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-08-04 22:03 ` Cook, Malcolm
2016-08-05 10:17 ` David Craven
2016-08-05 11:04 ` David Craven
2016-08-05 12:40 ` Aljosha Papsch
2016-08-05 14:50 ` Philippe Ombredanne
2016-08-05 14:58 ` [PATCH] ui: 'package->recutils' serializes the source field David Craven
2016-08-06 12:35 ` Alex Kost
2016-08-06 12:46 ` David Craven
2016-08-06 15:00 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-07 10:26 ` David Craven
2016-08-07 11:15 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-07 11:19 ` David Craven
2016-08-07 12:12 ` David Craven
2016-08-07 13:27 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-07 21:33 ` David Craven
2016-08-08 0:15 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-08 11:20 ` David Craven
2016-08-08 17:53 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-08 18:12 ` David Craven
2016-08-08 19:07 ` Alex Kost
2016-08-08 21:09 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-08 22:58 ` David Craven
2016-08-08 23:56 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-09 0:18 ` David Craven
2016-08-10 10:12 ` David Craven
2016-08-10 11:30 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-10 11:38 ` David Craven
2016-08-10 11:46 ` David Craven
2016-08-10 12:06 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-10 12:15 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-08-10 12:27 ` David Craven
2016-08-10 12:53 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-08-10 13:23 ` David Craven
2016-08-10 13:42 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-10 14:13 ` David Craven
2016-08-11 14:38 ` Alex Kost
2016-08-11 16:19 ` David Craven
2016-08-11 18:15 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-12 8:22 ` Alex Kost
2016-08-11 16:42 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-12 8:33 ` Alex Kost
2016-08-12 8:41 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-12 10:05 ` David Craven
2016-08-13 7:46 ` Alex Kost
2016-08-13 13:00 ` David Craven
2016-08-13 13:18 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-14 16:00 ` Alex Kost
2016-08-10 14:25 ` Thompson, David
2016-08-10 17:56 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-11 10:15 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-08-11 10:21 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-08-11 11:06 ` David Craven
2016-08-11 11:41 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-08-11 11:46 ` David Craven
2016-08-10 11:46 ` How to get the package metadata as structured data? Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-10 12:14 ` Catonano
2016-08-10 12:52 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-10 23:40 ` Catonano
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2016-08-04 18:37 Philippe Ombredanne
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