Re: Extend channel-build-system?

[Nicolas Graves <ngraves@ngraves.fr>]

On 2025-01-06 21:18, Suhail Singh wrote:

> Nicolas Graves <ngraves@ngraves.fr> writes:
>
>> This is because the current channel-builds-system is only able to
>> build a guix channel, rather than any channel.
>
> Perhaps this is obvious to others, but for the benefit of others (such
> as myself), could you please share some specifics?

Some docstrings state that directly (despite the rather unituitive
channel-build-system != guix-channel-build-system).  But I basically
discovered that through error digging.

For instance in the manual :
The resulting package is a Guix instance of the given channel(s), similar
to how @command{guix time-machine} would build it.

For RDE, I'm trying to get that built with a guile-build-system which is
quite close to what I wanted actually.  I'm at peace without an
extension of the build-system, but we should probably at least make it
more visible in the manual and doctrings that this is only for a Guix
channel and cannot be user to build any channel you found online.

-- 
Best regards,
Nicolas Graves