From: Taylan Kammer <taylan.kammer@gmail.com>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Better names for Guix versions from git?
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2018 20:49:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lg4dwfmt.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
Currently, after running 'guix pull', the Guix version will be reported
by 'guix --version' as something like:
522d1b87bc88dd459ade51b1ee0545937da8d3b5
I think it would be really nice if instead it were something like:
2018-12-25-522d1b
where the date is the commit's date (year, month, day) in UTC+0.
That's shorter, more descriptive, and just as unique. (The chances of
there being two commits in the same day with the same first 6 positions
in the hash should be negligient.)
The package name is currently something like:
guix-522d1b87b
That could become:
guix-2018-12-25-522d1b
which is a bit longer but more descriptive.
I looked into guix/self.scm a bit but couldn't easily tell how difficult
it would be to implement these changes.
Thoughts? Worth it?
Taylan
next reply other threads:[~2018-12-25 18:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-25 19:49 Taylan Kammer [this message]
2018-12-25 21:45 ` Better names for Guix versions from git? swedebugia
2018-12-26 13:57 ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-12-30 2:48 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2018-12-31 12:45 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-12-26 14:02 ` Marius Bakke
2018-12-27 21:30 ` Taylan Kammer
2018-12-29 11:53 ` Björn Höfling
2018-12-29 16:39 ` swedebugia
2018-12-29 22:50 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-12-29 23:52 ` Björn Höfling
2019-01-05 17:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
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