From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The new patch method and mit-krb5
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 22:35:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqkuh26c.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131030183514.GA17003@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Wed, 30 Oct 2013 19:35:14 +0100")
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 07:15:32PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> The notion of phases is internal to the build system, so we can’t really
>> do that.
>
> Well, the phases are part of the package object. So should it not be able
> to extract them? Or does the source field not have any access to the
> arguments field?
First <origin> objects are distinct from <package> object, and there’s
no connection from the <origin> to the containing <package> (if any).
Second, the ‘arguments’ field is passed as-is, uninterpreted, to the
build system. And most of the time the ‘arguments’ field has no
#:phases argument anyway.
Just to say that the current design wouldn’t lend itself to this sort of
thing.
Perhaps phases should be a more fundamental thing, imposed on all build
systems, but thinking through such a change would require a stronger
incentive, IMO. :-)
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-30 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-29 23:59 The new patch method and mit-krb5 Mark H Weaver
2013-10-30 15:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-10-30 16:20 ` Andreas Enge
2013-10-30 18:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-10-30 18:35 ` Andreas Enge
2013-10-30 21:35 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-11-04 17:30 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-11-04 21:49 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-11-05 13:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
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