Re: Return back original implementation for text-config serialization

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hi Andrew,

Andrew Tropin <andrew@trop.in> writes:

[...]

> Ludovic mentioned someday that nginx-configuration is problematic, but I
> highlighted the generic problems, which are applicable for many other
> guix service configurations.
>
> I discussed some other pros and cons of record-based configurations in
> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/52698
>
> and I see the benifits of the records, but I'm not sure if they
> outweight the weaknesses.
>
> It maybe sound unrelated to this thread, but it's actually very ontopic,
> because it lead to the design and implementation of home services
> configuration approach in general and slurp-file-gexp and text-config in
> particular.

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.

Thanks,

Maxim