From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: jgart <jgart@dismail.de>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why do we force the lazy python?
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 10:04:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y1x1xugm.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220709205106.GB24308@gac>
jgart <jgart@dismail.de> writes:
> Why do we check if python is a promise and then "force" it?
See the comment in this definition:
(define package-with-python2
;; Note: delay call to 'default-python2' until after the 'arguments' field
;; of packages is accessed to avoid a circular dependency when evaluating
;; the top-level of (gnu packages python).
(package-with-explicit-python (delay (default-python2))
"python-" "python2-"
#:variant-property 'python2-variant))
--
Ricardo
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2022-07-10 1:51 Why do we force the lazy python? jgart
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