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From: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: 40629@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#40629] Build and install packages from JSON definitions
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 19:26:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9m061w3.fsf@cbaines.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2qym5v8.fsf@elephly.net>

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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> did you know that we have JSON importer?  Admittedly, it’s not very
> useful because people don’t generally use JSON syntax to define Guix
> packages.  Not even Guix lets you build and install packages from JSON
> definitions, so what’s the point really?
>
> Well, fret not!  This patch set adds support for JSON package
> definitions to “guix package -f” and “guix build -f”.  You can now dump
> this into a file “hello.json”:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> {
>   "name": "hello",
>   "version": "2.10",
>   "source": "mirror://gnu/hello/hello-2.10.tar.gz",
>   "build-system": "gnu",
>   "home-page": "https://www.gnu.org/software/hello/",
>   "synopsis": "Hello, GNU world: An example GNU package",
>   "description": "GNU Hello prints a greeting.",
>   "license": "GPL-3.0+",
>   "native-inputs": ["gettext"]
> }
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> and then install the hello package with “guix package -f hello.json”
> without having to first run the JSON importer.
>
> Since the JSON importer doesn’t know how to work with more than one
> definition you can’t have more than one custom definition in your JSON
> file, but if there’s interest we can easily add support for this.
>
> (My patch set does not come with documentation changes for “guix
> package” or “guix build”.)
>
> What do you think?

I haven't played with the JSON importer, but this sounds cool. Did you
have any ideas for using this in mind?

Thanks,

Chris

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-15 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-14 15:44 [bug#40629] Build and install packages from JSON definitions Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-14 17:19 ` [bug#40629] [PATCH 1/5] import/print: Return license with prefix Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-14 17:19   ` [bug#40629] [PATCH 2/5] import/print: package->code: Wrap build system value in module reference Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-14 17:19   ` [bug#40629] [PATCH 3/5] import/json: Add json->scheme-file Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-14 17:19   ` [bug#40629] [PATCH 4/5] scripts/build: options->things-to-build: Handle .json files Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-16 21:45     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-16 21:53     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-14 17:19   ` [bug#40629] [PATCH 5/5] scripts/package: Handle JSON files Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-14 22:48 ` [bug#40629] [PATCH 6/9] import/json: Use json->code Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-14 22:48   ` [bug#40629] [PATCH 7/9] import/print: package->code: Wrap S-expression in definition Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-14 22:48   ` [bug#40629] [PATCH 8/9] import/utils: alist->package: Ignore known inputs Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-14 22:48   ` [bug#40629] [PATCH 9/9] import/json: json->code: Handle files with more than one definition Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-14 22:59 ` [bug#40629] [PATCH v2 8/9] import/utils: alist->package: Ignore known inputs Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-14 22:59   ` [bug#40629] [PATCH v2 9/9] import/json: json->code: Handle files with more than one definition Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-14 23:01     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-17  5:32       ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-04-18 20:23         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-15 18:26 ` Christopher Baines [this message]
2020-04-15 22:27   ` [bug#40629] Build and install packages from JSON definitions Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-16 21:44     ` bug#40629: " Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-17 17:45     ` [bug#40629] " Christopher Baines
2020-04-16 21:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-17  8:25   ` Ricardo Wurmus

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