From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mathieu Lirzin Subject: Re: using Cuirass to track a guix packages' git Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:59:13 +0200 Message-ID: <87y42c2q26.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87fup0rqwz.fsf@gnu.org> <8760pn7ftf.fsf@gnu.org> <871t0adalz.fsf@gnu.org> <87r38ay6xx.fsf@gnu.org> <87shsqbp6w.fsf@gnu.org> <87mviyxzt6.fsf@gnu.org> <87lgyibfoe.fsf@gnu.org> <87eg4axmzz.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8eyxlwy.fsf@gnu.org> <87h995c0r2.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39889) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpDWU-0002Gu-Md for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2016 07:59:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpDWO-0008FQ-WC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2016 07:59:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87h995c0r2.fsf@gnu.org> (Jan Nieuwenhuizen's message of "Sat, 24 Sep 2016 07:42:09 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Cc: guix-devel Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > Mathieu Lirzin writes: > >> David Craven writes: >> >>> I think the web interface and the json API are two different >>> "projects". >> >> Agreed. > > Oh! Then why choose json (poor-man's-sexps?) over sexps? I'm mostly > just using sexps with read and write, and pipe through json translators > when crossing the border to the javascript realm. AIUI JSON usage is not limited to JavaScript since almost every programming language has a parser for it. IMO, this is its main advantage which overcomes its technical limitations. However if using both S-EXP and JSON is possible without adding complexity we could provide them both throught HTTP. -- Mathieu Lirzin