Re: [Feature idea] Adding wikidata, wikipedia & screenshot-url fields to package-recipes

[swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>]

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Hi Amirouche


On 2018-11-01 14:37, Amirouche Boubekki wrote:
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>> Implementation:
>>
>> It could be implemented by adding the fields to package-objects.
> nitpick, those are records in guile scheme.
Did you mean to correct my use of "object" here?
Your are right about that.

Scheme Syntax: *define-record-type* /type
(constructor fieldname …)
predicate
(fieldname accessor [modifier]) …
/
I finally begin to understand all these words an Scheme-ways of doing 
things./
/
Have I understood correctly that we have at least 1 nested record types 
in guix? E.g. the package record contains an origin record and a lot of 
other fields.
>> The rationale for adding screenshot-url to the recipe is that this parsing of wikidata->en-WP->url-for-first-image
>> for every package in our list is quite expensive. Better to do it once and perhaps update all the screenshot-urls
>> once a year or so.
> I think the screenshot-url field will not be very helpful that can be
> fetched based on wikidata identifier.
Ok, I understand your point.

/Swedebugia

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