From: Felix Lechner via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>
To: Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal for removing some serialization limitations of define-configuration
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 09:37:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87le2vlioh.fsf@lease-up.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZngLGtANMtqCPbtg@ws>
Hi Tomas,
On Sun, Jun 23 2024, Tomas Volf wrote:
> 1. I need the serializer for `name' field to wrap the output of other
> serializers.
Is it possible with nested configuration records (which I remember are
complicated to set up)?
> 2. I need to serialize key-file and key-type as one (since they belong on one
> line).
Yeah, I've had that issue, too. I am not sure the field-based
serializers are a general solution.
> I did not figure out how to achieve those except by a custom
> procedure: This has the obvious maintenance issues though, so I think
> it would be nice to be able to utilize the existing serializer
> infrastructure for this
I probably find the custom serializer, which is in one place, easier to
understand than passing the record around, but I'm ready to be convinced
otherwise. In any event, I'm a newbie so please feel free to disregard.
Kind regards
Felix
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-06-23 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-23 11:46 Proposal for removing some serialization limitations of define-configuration Tomas Volf
2024-06-23 16:37 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. [this message]
2024-06-24 6:25 ` Attila Lendvai
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