From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: "Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>
Cc: Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is>, 32111-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#32111] daemon store names can't start with a dot
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 18:17:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87va9ksa1e.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8736wo3814.fsf@lassieur.org> ("Clément Lassieur"'s message of "Thu, 12 Jul 2018 15:20:23 +0200")
Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hello Clément,
>>
>> Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> skribis:
>>
>>> Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Can you provide some context why this is necessary, maybe even
>>>> in the commit message?
>>>
>>> It's necessary when you want to package a program whose source looks
>>> like file:///home/foo/.bar.
>>
>> I’d rather not make this kind of change. In general, I think we should
>> be very conservative about changes to the daemon and its protocol,
>> because that’s the common denominator of all the versions of Guix.
>>
>> If we change something like it, then we’ll get subtle breakage depending
>> on the version of the daemon in use.
>>
>> WDYT?
>
> Okay, let's abandon this then :-)
>
> CCing bug-guix because I still think it's a bug; please close it if you
> disagree.
Looks like you already closed it (or was it me?).
Anyway, it’s certainly a limitation, but given that it’s an annoyance
more than a showstopper (in my view at least), I’m in favor keeping
things this way for the sake of compatibility.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-12 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-10 12:43 [bug#32111] [PATCH] daemon: Allow store names to start with a dot Clément Lassieur
2018-07-10 19:18 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-07-10 19:23 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-07-12 8:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-12 13:20 ` bug#32132: daemon store names can't " Clément Lassieur
2018-07-12 13:20 ` bug#32111: " Clément Lassieur
2018-07-12 16:17 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-07-12 16:35 ` bug#32132: " Clément Lassieur
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