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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-To: larch@yhetil.org X-Migadu-Country: US ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yhetil.org; s=key1; t=1660835006; h=from:from:sender:sender:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references:list-id:list-help:list-unsubscribe: list-subscribe:list-post:dkim-signature; bh=znUA6xG3GbMKx0x6GdPJMe78eE4RewMNYAlnjsxdvNk=; b=sDo12iDRcrecsTIJWOBEDNfim0czNN5DgJww3yn6+kRX8900z71Lupl2RCry5qAn08N4KH dX3aTard2neGlAmTUMhn7kBp4mU0LkI3KRbf70aHe2ZmHVQmfmuWSx5omj/3cz+ow7LauN eb5i5KEYCfcZGtLtmVaTryRzMPwfX4k+Gft3tcaBwE20AsOKwVEi+NUlb0mTcCaWeB6Fi7 B8/YWzBdJw3AUKyZOsese4J4U0V1U0yYSRqODrVgMv6RmoAJf6TuAn4p+wF3lSirJ8fwfp XrS0bGE8HzcNt34zAZ7PUQPFzHhExLDbPXhj9dSuaoh4jQ8gWDTA6JtpiBaIwQ== ARC-Seal: i=1; s=key1; d=yhetil.org; t=1660835006; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=AcxVUC0cA1cEBeMY0MDVNDlWLLkL/OB16M10XJ4nk/UhrxrTNBLtgwT/+43YxpoLC6UdPb IXXtED5zD6LYRAi+AXeRzxYWrXutMKWxp2ULc01z5QE0p3mP6Kmam46sRadcjyn4M7txv7 G7Npy34LxISNP69rAmCiUkoynh2fs6YJ3MmywS39zUVS0pcHkW3V4egFF2Rdq3VUzAm27V bWCwJzeZ4uz1WoKvi7Z9aZXxYNDSO0P4ts0eOiTD6AL84NSyUOWAZ0UoCW/f3APQP8VyEA W8hlCEZOU/P5ODE/CaxOsb7AXTvNnjrzlxTjMOGjkVXP/TEhOR39WuWzpp01tg== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20210112 header.b=JeK8mVM4; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -5.36 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20210112 header.b=JeK8mVM4; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Queue-Id: D237E458A7 X-Spam-Score: -5.36 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn0.migadu.com X-TUID: 24/wzQomOHY7 Hi Josselin, Thank you for the clear explanations. On mer., 06 juil. 2022 at 22:01, Josselin Poiret wrote: [...] > What I personally think, is that we should rationalize the way we > interact with Guix source: a running Guix should always be able to hold > a reference to its source. The guix package or future equivalent > (ie. good for internal consumption) should always refer to that same > source, but that will also require factoring the daemon (and extensions) > out of the repository, so that the C code doesn't get compiled again on > every unrelated commit. Finally, and I think this is the most > challenging one, we should try to keep the differences between a) and c) > to the minimum, meaning that one way of building has to go. This is a > big change, conceptually and technically, and I understand that this > might be way more complicated that we'd like, but I think this needs to > be done at some point. Now #53210 [1] is closed, it improves the situation, right? Is it enough for the C extension you are working on? 1: Cheers, simon