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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 34040@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#34040] [PATCH 1/2] refresh: Suggest input changes when updating.
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 22:48:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fttgv25x.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y378moax.fsf@gnu.org>


Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

>>> Alternately, we could change ‘input-changes’ to ‘inputs’, which would be
>>> absolute, not relative, and thus ‘package-update’ would take care of
>>> calling ‘changed-inputs’ etc.
>>
>> That would also work, but I think I prefer an updater to report changes
>> rather than a new list of inputs.
>
> OTOH if we return a complete list of inputs, then we don’t have to worry
> about the cost of ‘changed-inputs’ since that would only be called on
> demand; also there’d be a single call site for ‘changed-inputs’.

The potentially expensive part is to get the inputs, though.  Getting a
list of new inputs means that the importer needs to be run.  For CRAN
packages this requires downloading the tarball and unpacking parts of
it.

--
Ricardo

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-26  1:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-11  9:11 [bug#34040] Suggest input changes when updating packages Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-11  9:42 ` [bug#34040] [PATCH 1/2] refresh: Suggest input changes when updating Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-11  9:42   ` [bug#34040] [PATCH 2/2] import: cran: Suggest input changes Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-12 13:42     ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-12 21:11       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-12 13:40   ` [bug#34040] [PATCH 1/2] refresh: Suggest input changes when updating Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-21 21:34   ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-25 16:21     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-25 21:15       ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-25 21:48         ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-01-26 13:53           ` Ludovic Courtès

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