From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 47871@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#47871] [PATCH] import: Remove Nix importer.
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 13:09:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YHxnz8DIXDsF46oS@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210418134458.12149-1-ludo@gnu.org>
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.
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-18 17:10 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 [this message]
2021-04-20 10:36 ` bug#47871: " Ludovic Courtès
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