Re: Better names for Guix versions from git?

[swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>]

On 2018-12-25 20:49, Taylan Kammer wrote:
> Currently, after running 'guix pull', the Guix version will be reported
> by 'guix --version' as something like:
> 
>      522d1b87bc88dd459ade51b1ee0545937da8d3b5
> 
> I think it would be really nice if instead it were something like:
> 
>      2018-12-25-522d1b
> 
> where the date is the commit's date (year, month, day) in UTC+0.
> 
> That's shorter, more descriptive, and just as unique.  (The chances of
> there being two commits in the same day with the same first 6 positions
> in the hash should be negligient.)
> 
> The package name is currently something like:
> 
>      guix-522d1b87b
> 
> That could become:
> 
>      guix-2018-12-25-522d1b
> 
> which is a bit longer but more descriptive.
> 
> I looked into guix/self.scm a bit but couldn't easily tell how difficult
> it would be to implement these changes.
> 
> Thoughts?  Worth it?

I think it is worth it, in fact I was on my way to suggest the same.

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Cheers Swedebugia