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* Fwd: 03/03: sort haskell-xyz
       [not found] ` <20190814220838.8D6FE20A0E@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
@ 2019-08-15  5:57   ` Ricardo Wurmus
  2019-08-15 19:25     ` Mark H Weaver
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ricardo Wurmus @ 2019-08-15  5:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Robert Vollmert; +Cc: guix-devel

Hi,

guix-commits@gnu.org writes:

> rob pushed a commit to branch wip-haskell-updates
> in repository guix.
>
> commit e88776b829391b941ebcbc55a0fd7104c51c4992
> Author: Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net>
> Date:   Thu Aug 15 00:06:20 2019 +0200
>
>     sort haskell-xyz
> ---
>  gnu/packages/haskell-xyz.scm | 16003 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  1 file changed, 8003 insertions(+), 8000 deletions(-)

I would advise against this kind of change.  It affects a lot of
packages (which muddies the git log) but really has very little benefit.
An alphabetic ordering is not necessarily better than a historical
ordering or a topological ordering.

--
Ricardo

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* Re: Fwd: 03/03: sort haskell-xyz
  2019-08-15  5:57   ` Fwd: 03/03: sort haskell-xyz Ricardo Wurmus
@ 2019-08-15 19:25     ` Mark H Weaver
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Mark H Weaver @ 2019-08-15 19:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ricardo Wurmus; +Cc: guix-devel, Robert Vollmert

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> guix-commits@gnu.org writes:
>
>> rob pushed a commit to branch wip-haskell-updates
>> in repository guix.
>>
>> commit e88776b829391b941ebcbc55a0fd7104c51c4992
>> Author: Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net>
>> Date:   Thu Aug 15 00:06:20 2019 +0200
>>
>>     sort haskell-xyz
>> ---
>>  gnu/packages/haskell-xyz.scm | 16003 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>>  1 file changed, 8003 insertions(+), 8000 deletions(-)
>
> I would advise against this kind of change.  It affects a lot of
> packages (which muddies the git log) but really has very little benefit.
> An alphabetic ordering is not necessarily better than a historical
> ordering or a topological ordering.

It's also likely to make merges between branches painful.

       Mark

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