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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Speeding up “guix pull”: splitting modules
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 13:13:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3okZ1jbeL54rGR0Gbf_+kX=C6jZazuf5dC-r+Rq4T2vL3YVw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zhexd3ec.fsf@gnu.org>

Hi Ludo,

On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 22:50, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> > On the other hand: this would need to be an ongoing effort.  Newly
> > introduced packages or even new features might create complex module
> > cycles.  It sounds tedious to keep track of this and to enforce
> > boundaries.
>
> Yes, I think this is a dead end: glibc could well end up become on
> Haskell (hi, Pandoc!), and then the whole module split effort collapses.

What kind of metrics could help to detect which modules are going to
the wrong way?
For example, would some DAG post-processings help?


All the best,
simon

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-10 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-05 20:37 Speeding up “guix pull”: splitting modules Ricardo Wurmus
2020-01-06  9:11 ` Andy Wingo
2020-01-07 18:37 ` zimoun
2020-01-07 20:14   ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-01-10 12:09     ` zimoun
2020-01-10 12:42       ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-01-10 12:53         ` zimoun
2020-01-11 23:29           ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-01-20 17:44             ` zimoun
2020-01-08 21:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-01-10 12:13   ` zimoun [this message]
2020-01-10 19:02     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-01-08 21:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
     [not found]   ` <87zhenp01v.fsf@cbaines.net>
2020-01-19 21:07     ` Ludovic Courtès

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