Re: Accuracy of importers?

[Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e@gmail.com>]

Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> writes:

>    go           (Sarah? Leo? Raghav?)

I have only used this a few times so far, but the quality seems to have gotten a lot better. My impression, though, due to the nature of how we have to generate packages so as to not be reliant on a centralized GOPROXY server (namely one controlled by Google), is that we stumble dealing with the heterogeneity of the internet. There are a few things which could make this situation better:

There is an open issue[1] for a better API to https://pkg.go.dev which may eventually allow us to query for things like license, VCS path, etc. This could obviate Guix's need to crawl the internet.

I was also discussing[2] the pros/cons of relying on the Go tool-chain to do most of the work for us. I think doing so might be making the right trade-offs, but it sounds like[3] we are blocked by cgit's ability to work with shallow checkouts. Since Guix has a build environment, maybe we could just use Git the CLI instead of a scheme library when necessary.

I hope this helps, and good luck with your talk!

[1] - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/36785
[2] - https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2021-09/msg00344.html
[3] - https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2021-10/msg00020.html

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Katherine