On 2/20/20 5:43 PM, Leo Famulari wrote:
> Should they be added to (gnu packages crates-io)?

yep!

> And if so, should it
> be done as a single commit? Or one-by-one? 

One-by-one unfortunately

> It's 258 new packages, and
> figuring out the order they should be added in seems... too hard. 

They should be alphanumeric

> The c-bindgen and cargo-c packages could go in (gnu packages rust-apps).
> 
> What about updating them later? Will `guix refresh` handle it? 

guix refresh should  handle them. But currently it should do thing 
recursively so keep that in mind.

I have a small tool I have been working will make the new packages 
easier to commit.... its very much WIP but if I would appreciate any 
feedback. Attached is sort2.scm and merge.scm

sort2.scm will sort a files exported packages alphanumerically.
merge.scm will merge exported packages of two files into a single file 
creating a git commit for every new or updated package.

Here is my work flow,
1) Import the package using `guix import crate -r mypackage > mypackage.scm`

2) Sort the packages, `guile -s ./sort2.scm mypackage.scm > 
mypackage.scm` (you will probably also want to sort crates-io.scm, i 
think some packages may be out-of-order now)

3) merge mypackages.scm and crates-io.scm `guile -s ./merge.scm 
./mypackage.scm ./crates-io.scm`

4) check that the git log looks correct and that everything still runs! :D

-Martin