Hello!

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:

> Here’s a proposal for a soft revolution: getting rid of input labels
> in package definitions.  Instead of writing:
>
>     (native-inputs
>      `(("autoconf" ,autoconf)
>        ("automake" ,automake)
>        ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
>        ("guile" ,guile-3.0)))
>     
> one can write:
>
>     (native-inputs (list autoconf automake pkg-config guile-3.0))

I’m still looking into the feasibility of this change.  For it to work,
I think it’s better if the transition to the new style is as fast as
possible.  The attached script helps with that: it automatically
converts the source of packages where the conversion does not even
change the package derivation.  It generates diffs like this: