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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 09:42:31 -0400
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On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 3:06 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:
>
>> For more details and source code, check out the git repository:
>> https://gitorious.org/davexunit/pypi2guix
>
> This is very cool!
>

Thanks!

> It would indeed be nice to turn it into a =E2=80=98guix pipy=E2=80=99 com=
mand or
> something like that.  If need be, I can help with the details of
> integrating it.
>

Yes, that would be nice.  What are your thoughts on this?

>> * Remove dependency on guile-curl (use gnutls instead?)
>
> It could use (guix build download), which uses (web client) + (gnutls).
>

Perfect.  I will use that.

> Also, the thing could have two back-ends: one that generates code (what
> it already does), and one that produces a <package> object.  That way,
> we could have commands like:
>
>   guix pipy build https://pipy...
>

That would be neat.  That way one doesn't have to insert the code
anywhere to check if the package builds.

- Dave