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From: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>, guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: (Re-) Designing extractong-downaloder
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 09:56:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d63cab4e-7edb-95e1-a626-a817668c1e3d@crazy-compilers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c5a0afff23407c83957d936820a464cd2bff10d2.camel@telenet.be>

Am 23.02.22 um 13:35 schrieb Maxime Devos:
> Nevermind, this benefit is probably undone by the extra unpacking.

Probably.

Anyway, this is worth thinking of, as it would make the additional 
unpacking part of the source. And thus unpacking would be decoupled from 
the build-system. (Which was part of the idea behind the proposal.)

After considering this for some time, I actually like your idea: it is 
explicit (which is better than implicit), flexible and simple (no 
extracting downloader required at all). And it also does not lead to any 
problems with content-addressed downloads like SWH. The only downside I 
can see at the moment is that is stores both the outer and the inner 
archive.

Let's see what others think about it.

-- 
Regards
Hartmut Goebel

| Hartmut Goebel          | h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com               |
| www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |



  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-24  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-23  8:57 (Re-) Designing extractong-downaloder Hartmut Goebel
2022-02-23 10:52 ` pukkamustard
2022-02-24  8:50   ` Hartmut Goebel
2022-02-23 12:30 ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-23 12:35   ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-24  8:56     ` Hartmut Goebel [this message]
     [not found] ` <beb0e29f-6066-d1b5-b560-22a3d0a98ad8@goebel-consult.de>
     [not found]   ` <87h77ly1ja.fsf@gmail.com>
2022-04-06 16:44     ` Designing importers (was: (Re-) Designing extracting-downloader) Hartmut Goebel
2022-04-10 20:33       ` Designing importers Ludovic Courtès

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