From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: [GSoC 2020] Clojure importer for Guix? Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 12:56:25 -0500 Message-ID: <20200321175625.5bxafqdiqrtihhoz@thebird.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59834) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jFiTs-0005yX-5Z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2020 14:04:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jFiTr-00042S-6X for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2020 14:04:19 -0400 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([94.142.245.5]:51344) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jFiTr-00041s-03 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2020 14:04:19 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Leandro Doctors Cc: Guix Devel On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 09:41:05PM -0300, Leandro Doctors wrote: > I am also checking Jelle Licht's 2016 GSoC project (the npm importer). > From what I understand, Jelle's code was never merged back into guix. > As I'm trying to learn from the past, could anyone please ellaborate > on why was that code never merged? Circular dependencies on a large scale. We don't really have an answer for that. Pj.