From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: new manifest format readers?
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 17:44:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tw3mr0kc.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tw3msj9f.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> Ricardo Wurmus writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>> ;; Boilerplate code to turn the above list of packages into a manifest
>>> (use-modules (gnu packages))
>>> (packages->manifest (map (compose list specification->package+output) packages))
>>
>> Yes, I finally found this and it is not very friendly/discoverable.
>
> Agreed. How about making these two changes:
>
> 1. Include (gnu packages) in the default evaluation environment of
> manifests.
>
> 2. (define (package-specifications->manifest specs)
> (packages->manifest (map (compose list specification->package+output)
> specs)))
>
> Thoughts?
This sounds like a very useful improvement to me.
--
Ricardo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-11 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-09 12:03 new manifest format readers? Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 13:09 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2017-06-09 13:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-09 13:58 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-06-09 14:58 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-10 2:06 ` Arun Isaac
2017-06-11 14:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-11 15:44 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2017-06-11 21:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-12 3:56 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-06-12 8:31 ` Chris Marusich
2017-06-09 15:08 ` Björn Höfling
2017-06-09 18:12 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-10 17:19 ` myglc2
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