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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: Moving general useful procedures to the utils-modules
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2018 16:10:09 +0100
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swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> writes:

> I found this in guix/build/cargo-build-system.scm:
>
> (define (touch file-name)
>   (call-with-output-file file-name (const #t)))
>
> I think we should move useful ones like this to (build utils) and
> consider merging (build utils) and (import utils) into a single
> utils-module.

While I agree that we should avoid duplication, note that (guix build
utils) is build-side code, so changing it causes rebuilds.

> I think we should also consider factoring out some of these utils in a
> separate guix-utils library that can be used by other guile-projects
> WITHOUT depending on the whole of guix.

(guix import utils) may not necessarily be useful.  I=E2=80=99m wary of pac=
kages
that provide =E2=80=9Cmiscellaneous=E2=80=9D tools and I think we should av=
oid that.
In more focused cases like the monads code I agree that it would be nice
to break these out into separate projects.

--
Ricardo