From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: 40629@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#40629] Build and install packages from JSON definitions
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 23:50:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8rrdrsj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2qym5v8.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Tue, 14 Apr 2020 17:44:31 +0200")
Hey!
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
> did you know that we have JSON importer? Admittedly, it’s not very
> useful because people don’t generally use JSON syntax to define Guix
> packages. Not even Guix lets you build and install packages from JSON
> definitions, so what’s the point really?
>
> Well, fret not! This patch set adds support for JSON package
> definitions to “guix package -f” and “guix build -f”. You can now dump
> this into a file “hello.json”:
>
> {
> "name": "hello",
> "version": "2.10",
> "source": "mirror://gnu/hello/hello-2.10.tar.gz",
> "build-system": "gnu",
> "home-page": "https://www.gnu.org/software/hello/",
> "synopsis": "Hello, GNU world: An example GNU package",
> "description": "GNU Hello prints a greeting.",
> "license": "GPL-3.0+",
> "native-inputs": ["gettext"]
> }
>
> and then install the hello package with “guix package -f hello.json”
> without having to first run the JSON importer.
I think that’s pretty cool!
In a way, it also looks like a special case of the import-on-the-fly use
case we discussed. Namely, if you could write:
guix build json:./foo.json
guix install pypi:itsdangerous
…
and have the relevant importer automatically invoked, that’d be sweet.
But… that’s somewhat ambitious and shouldn’t block this improvement!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-16 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-14 15:44 [bug#40629] Build and install packages from JSON definitions Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-14 17:19 ` [bug#40629] [PATCH 1/5] import/print: Return license with prefix Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-14 17:19 ` [bug#40629] [PATCH 2/5] import/print: package->code: Wrap build system value in module reference Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-14 17:19 ` [bug#40629] [PATCH 3/5] import/json: Add json->scheme-file Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-14 17:19 ` [bug#40629] [PATCH 4/5] scripts/build: options->things-to-build: Handle .json files Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-16 21:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-16 21:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-14 17:19 ` [bug#40629] [PATCH 5/5] scripts/package: Handle JSON files Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-14 22:48 ` [bug#40629] [PATCH 6/9] import/json: Use json->code Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-14 22:48 ` [bug#40629] [PATCH 7/9] import/print: package->code: Wrap S-expression in definition Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-14 22:48 ` [bug#40629] [PATCH 8/9] import/utils: alist->package: Ignore known inputs Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-14 22:48 ` [bug#40629] [PATCH 9/9] import/json: json->code: Handle files with more than one definition Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-14 22:59 ` [bug#40629] [PATCH v2 8/9] import/utils: alist->package: Ignore known inputs Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-14 22:59 ` [bug#40629] [PATCH v2 9/9] import/json: json->code: Handle files with more than one definition Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-14 23:01 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-17 5:32 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-04-18 20:23 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-15 18:26 ` [bug#40629] Build and install packages from JSON definitions Christopher Baines
2020-04-15 22:27 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-16 21:44 ` bug#40629: " Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-17 17:45 ` [bug#40629] " Christopher Baines
2020-04-16 21:50 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-04-17 8:25 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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