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From: Ivan Petkov <ivanppetkov@gmail.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Current state of cargo-build-system
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 08:23:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D2E6E9C-D22D-4843-B51B-1B6C7FD9A538@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y375qigr.fsf@elephly.net>


> On Jan 28, 2019, at 12:44 AM, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
> 
> Outputs are only generated when building the package.
> 
> If all you need is the source code, however, you can use (package-source
> the-package) and use the resulting value as an input to another package.

Thanks Ricardo, I think this is what I was looking for!

In the case of cargo, I think it we still need to processes the input tarball into
the right format to get vendored correctly, but the build system should know enough
about how to perform the vendoring steps anyway, so this is a step in the right direction.

—Ivan

      reply	other threads:[~2019-01-28 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-21  0:11 Current state of cargo-build-system Ivan Petkov
2019-01-23 10:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-23 11:46   ` ng0
2019-01-23 17:10 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-01-25 23:57   ` Ivan Petkov
2019-01-27 23:13     ` Ivan Petkov
2019-01-28  8:44     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-28 16:23       ` Ivan Petkov [this message]

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