Re: Graft hooks

[Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>]

Hi Ludovic,

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>
>> I think it would be quite unfortunate if _every_ graft had to run
>> _every_ graft hook, or if every graft hook had to be defined in
>> (guix grafts) and/or (guix build graft).
>>
>> It's reasonable to have a few global graft hooks, e.g. for handling
>> debugging information, but I would greatly prefer for Guix to also have
>> a mechanism allowing individual packages or build systems to introduce
>> graft hooks without modifying (guix grafts) or (guix build graft), and
>> for such a mechanism to be used for Racket and its libraries.
>
> Sure, like I wrote, a more extensible solution along the lines of what
> Timothy and you suggest sounds better long-term.  It just happens to be
> harder to implement today (in particular until ‘wip-build-systems-gexp’
> is merged), and not entirely clear how this could work, as discussed
> with Timothy.

That's fine.  This solution is fine for now, as long as the number of
graft hooks is fairly small.  Maybe we can revisit this after
'wip-build-systems-gexp' is merged.

      Thanks,
        Mark