From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Note for Python packages: packages do not have "inputs" (most of the time) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 08:49:38 -0400 Message-ID: <20161025124938.GB887@jasmine> References: <580CF174.1000201@crazy-compilers.com> <87wpgyonb2.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> <580F2A7A.9080406@crazy-compilers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48760) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bz1An-0004H6-51 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2016 08:49:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bz1Ai-0004VB-61 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2016 08:49:45 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:44488) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bz1Ah-0004V1-Vs for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2016 08:49:40 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <580F2A7A.9080406@crazy-compilers.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Hartmut Goebel Cc: guix-devel On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:48:42AM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Am 23.10.2016 um 21:52 schrieb ng0: > > I think this is wrong. My assumption is I work with the old system as > > long as the new system is not in place. I see no changes which fix this, > > so why should I do work in advance when this must be fixed afterwards? > > > > Will the current system report packages as broken, or are they entirely > > broken? From my perspective this reads weird. I have not read the new > > documentation section, but I assumed this is not yet in place? > > The new documentation section is already in place, since it is totally > independent from the new or the old build system. > > Please note that I'm only asking to stop introducing more broken > packages (this is using "inputs" for python packages). I'm taking care > of the existing packages on the wip-python-build-system branch. Changing the subject: Is that branch stable? Can I start testing core Python package upgrades on top of it?