[Fwd: Re: [repology/repology] Add Guix support (#218)]

[Fwd: Re: [repology/repology] Add Guix support (#218)]

[ng0]

Hi,

how often do we update the data on the website (I haven asked which
data though)? Is it in anyway accurate or just a snapshot taken once
a month?

And I don't know nothing about a json involved in the website, but I also
haven't looked at the current code which generates the packages websites.

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> Guix support is there since February: https://repology.org/repository/gnuguix.
> I've used GNU prefix because it's widely used inside the project, maybe it is confusing and should be removed?
> It currently parses date from the website, but if there were some json available with more info it would be nice.
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Re: [Fwd: Re: [repology/repology] Add Guix support (#218)]

[Eric Bavier]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:14:12 +0000
ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> how often do we update the data on the website (I haven asked which
> data though)? Is it in anyway accurate or just a snapshot taken once
> a month?

The "packages" pages are updated nightly from the git master branch.

> And I don't know nothing about a json involved in the website, but I also
> haven't looked at the current code which generates the packages websites.

HTML+javascript is generated from the package modules.  If they want
something more programmer-friendly than scrapping HTML, they could get
the same data from the packages themselves through Guile.

`~Eric

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> > Subject: Re: [repology/repology] Add Guix support (#218)
> > 
> > Guix support is there since February: https://repology.org/repository/gnuguix.
> > I've used GNU prefix because it's widely used inside the project, maybe it is confusing and should be removed?
> > It currently parses date from the website, but if there were some json available with more info it would be nice.
> > 
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Re: [Fwd: Re: [repology/repology] Add Guix support (#218)]

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Eric Bavier <ericbavier@centurylink.net> skribis:

> On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:14:12 +0000
> ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> how often do we update the data on the website (I haven asked which
>> data though)? Is it in anyway accurate or just a snapshot taken once
>> a month?
>
> The "packages" pages are updated nightly from the git master branch.
>
>> And I don't know nothing about a json involved in the website, but I also
>> haven't looked at the current code which generates the packages websites.
>
> HTML+javascript is generated from the package modules.  If they want
> something more programmer-friendly than scrapping HTML, they could get
> the same data from the packages themselves through Guile.

To whom it may concern ;-), there’s also the little-known
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/packages.json>, which was
added for similar reasons.

Ludo’.