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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: 47871-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47871: [PATCH] import: Remove Nix importer.
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 12:36:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmypckdy.fsf_-_@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YHxnz8DIXDsF46oS@jasmine.lan> (Leo Famulari's message of "Sun, 18 Apr 2021 13:09:35 -0400")

Hi,

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 03:44:58PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> I think we should stop making false promises about this importer,
>> so here we go.  I think it’s OK to apply during string freeze
>> because it removes text without changing existing text.
>
> Yeah, I agree it's time to remove it. Too often we have to tell people
> that it doesn't work.

Done in d95168321f4a9bf6857b598da0a183b45a868d54.

>> Did you know that this code is actually the oldest piece of code
>> in Guix?  It was initially part of ‘gnupdater’, a script I had
>> written to update GNU package definitions in Nixpkgs.  Technically,
>> it even predates Guix by one or two years.  :-)
>
> Wow! That's really something. It will be sad to see it go, but on the
> other hand it's cool to see that we've outgrown it.

Yup.  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.




      reply	other threads:[~2021-04-20 10:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-18 13:44 [bug#47871] [PATCH] import: Remove Nix importer Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-18 17:09 ` Leo Famulari
2021-04-20 10:36   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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