From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] Getting rid of input labels?
Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 17:35:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnrsw15h.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210520145830.14108-1-ludo@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Thu, 20 May 2021 16:58:26 +0200")
Hello,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> 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))
Nice! Thank you.
> • Packages such as ‘tzdata’ use labels to refer to non-package
> inputs. These cannot be converted to the automatic labeling
> style, or not without extra changes.
Would it be possible to write something like
(inputs (let ((tzcode (origin ...)))
(list ... tzcode ...)))
?
>
> • Currently, something like:
>
> (inputs (list glib))
>
> is converted to:
>
> (inputs `(("glib" ,glib)))
>
> Should it, instead, be converted to:
>
> (inputs `(("glib" ,glib)
> ("glib:bin" ,glib "bin")))
>
> ? This would make the concise style strictly less
> expressive, but maybe good enough?
Could the new syntax accept both variables and specifications, e.g.,
(list "glib:bin" foo "bar@2.3")
?
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-21 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-20 14:58 [PATCH RFC 0/4] Getting rid of input labels? Ludovic Courtès
2021-05-20 14:58 ` [PATCH RFC 1/4] records: Support field sanitizers Ludovic Courtès
2021-05-20 14:58 ` [PATCH RFC 2/4] DRAFT packages: Allow inputs to be plain package lists Ludovic Courtès
2021-05-20 14:58 ` [PATCH RFC 3/4] DRAFT gnu: Change inputs of core packages to plain lists Ludovic Courtès
2021-05-20 14:58 ` [PATCH RFC 4/4] DRAFT lint: Add 'input-labels' checker Ludovic Courtès
2021-05-20 16:19 ` [PATCH RFC 0/4] Getting rid of input labels? Vincent Legoll
2021-05-26 13:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-05-20 19:31 ` Maxime Devos
2021-05-26 13:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-05-27 19:02 ` Maxime Devos
2021-05-21 15:35 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2021-05-26 14:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-05-30 16:23 ` Ryan Prior
2021-06-08 13:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-06-10 21:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
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