From: Felix Lechner via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Pinning package inputs using inferiors?
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2022 22:58:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFHYt55Ct-t9Li_-zvf=OiO2z5mTue_TqNgF+UXxoihXLTAcJA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czakdgw5.fsf@beadling.co.uk>
Hi,
On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 4:51 PM Phil <phil@beadling.co.uk> wrote:
>
> have the releases available ...
> but without ... an obligation on ... applications to adopt
> these changes
While I am relatively new to functional package management, I find it
inconsistent that inputs in Guix are provided by variables.
I believe the inputs should be provided by functions that deliver the
most suitable version of a package. For most packages, that is the
most recent version unless pinned.
A package definition would be the list of available versions rather
than just one version.
One day, those functions could even be combined with importers in the
sense that many versions are potentially available. Substitutes would
only be produced and served for versions actually used, plus the most
recent version.
Kind regards
Felix Lechner
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-24 2:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-20 21:37 Pinning package inputs using inferiors? Phil
2022-10-21 9:36 ` zimoun
2022-10-21 21:08 ` Phil
2022-10-22 12:33 ` david larsson
2022-10-22 19:04 ` Efraim Flashner
2022-10-23 5:58 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. [this message]
2022-10-24 8:06 ` zimoun
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://guix.gnu.org/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='CAFHYt55Ct-t9Li_-zvf=OiO2z5mTue_TqNgF+UXxoihXLTAcJA@mail.gmail.com' \
--to=guix-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=felix.lechner@lease-up.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).