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From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using G-Expressions for public keys (substitutes and possibly more)
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 20:35:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e93932571b9dc0770450bfd455458bac459a744e.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fsronwvg.fsf@gnu.org>

Am Montag, den 22.11.2021, 14:27 +0100 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> Hi,
> 
> Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> skribis:
> 
> > I think we would probably want to improve on this end in the guile-
> > gcrypt module, i.e. have a public-key "constructor" that returns a
> > canonical-sexp and so on.  WDYT?
> 
> I don’t find it very compelling given there’s already
> ‘sexp->canonical-sexp’ & co.  WDYT?
sexp->canonical-sexp is from the comment surrounding it a rather hacky
beast.  I think (guile-)gcrypt could very well benefit from having a
better sexp construction API, but again that's outside the scope of
Guix.

But since you're asking, I do feel there's a lot guile-gcrypt could
borrow from Guix, just not right now in an efficient manner thanks to
needing to jump through the sexp->canonical-sexp hoops.  It could have
semantic constructors and field sanitization à la (guix records) for
example.  WDYT?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-22 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-17 12:47 Using G-Expressions for public keys (substitutes and possibly more) Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-10-21 20:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-10-22  4:47   ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-11-21  0:12     ` Jelle Licht
2021-11-21  8:28       ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-11-22 13:27         ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-11-22 14:32           ` Jelle Licht
2021-11-22 19:35           ` Liliana Marie Prikler [this message]
2021-11-23 17:14             ` Ludovic Courtès

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