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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should 'build-expression->derivation' be used for new build systems?
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 16:05:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87muraf2vl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87woqfcatr.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Vong's message of "Fri, 19 Oct 2018 03:29:52 +0800")

Hello Alex,

Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> skribis:

> I noticed that in the (guix derivations) module,
> 'build-expression->derivation' is marked as deprecated. However, I see
> that all build systems currently living in the (guix build-system ...)
> namespaces are still using it. Is this intended or will this be changed
> eventually? If this is going to change, is there an example to follow?

For now, you have to use it.

The story of ‘build-expression->derivation’ is that of an unfinished
transition to G-expressions.  :-)

There’s a branch called ‘wip-build-systems-gexp’ that aims to complete
that transition, but I haven’t yet gotten around to actually finishing
the work.  This is one of the things I want us to complete for 1.0
though, so sooner rather than later.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-19 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-18 19:29 Should 'build-expression->derivation' be used for new build systems? Alex Vong
2018-10-19 14:05 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-10-19 16:11   ` Joshua Branson
2018-10-20 10:03     ` Ludovic Courtès

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