From: Catonano <catonano@gmail.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to get the package metadata as structured data?
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 14:14:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ98PDyPrXWPEtHqJ=En+zSohwT3pT4jYOyyOkSAuMpX64G4wA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y444deyq.fsf@elephly.net>
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2016-08-10 13:46 GMT+02:00 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>:
>
> Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> writes:
>
> > David Craven <david@craven.ch> wrote:
> >> I aborted, since I realised that guix package -s doesn't include the
> >> source url and hash, which would be important for a testsuite...
> >
> > IMHO, if the rec data is the only way to get to the packages data, the
> > source url would be rather essential to get in.
>
> The recutils output is not the *only* way to access the package data.
> All packages in Guix are just Scheme variables. Package data are
> available as S-expressions and can be read by Scheme programs or parsed
> by external applications. The recutils output is just an additional
> format used when interacting with Guix on the command line.
>
> (Personally, I’m not enthusiastic about adding a serialised form of the
> source field to the recutils output.)
>
> ~~ Ricardo
>
>
>
Not so long ago, someone posted a script that produced a web page with the
results of linting all the packages
That's an example
One could produce an xml file to be imported in Gephi, just to make another
example.
Or a SQL text file to be imported in some relational db, or a different
format to be imported in some not relational db...
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-04 20:49 How to get the package metadata as structured data? David Craven
2016-08-04 21:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-04 22:03 ` Cook, Malcolm
2016-08-05 10:17 ` David Craven
2016-08-05 11:04 ` David Craven
2016-08-05 12:40 ` Aljosha Papsch
2016-08-05 14:50 ` Philippe Ombredanne
2016-08-05 14:58 ` [PATCH] ui: 'package->recutils' serializes the source field David Craven
2016-08-06 12:35 ` Alex Kost
2016-08-06 12:46 ` David Craven
2016-08-06 15:00 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-07 10:26 ` David Craven
2016-08-07 11:15 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-07 11:19 ` David Craven
2016-08-07 12:12 ` David Craven
2016-08-07 13:27 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-07 21:33 ` David Craven
2016-08-08 0:15 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-08 11:20 ` David Craven
2016-08-08 17:53 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-08 18:12 ` David Craven
2016-08-08 19:07 ` Alex Kost
2016-08-08 21:09 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-08 22:58 ` David Craven
2016-08-08 23:56 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-09 0:18 ` David Craven
2016-08-10 10:12 ` David Craven
2016-08-10 11:30 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-10 11:38 ` David Craven
2016-08-10 11:46 ` David Craven
2016-08-10 12:06 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-10 12:15 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-08-10 12:27 ` David Craven
2016-08-10 12:53 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-08-10 13:23 ` David Craven
2016-08-10 13:42 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-10 14:13 ` David Craven
2016-08-11 14:38 ` Alex Kost
2016-08-11 16:19 ` David Craven
2016-08-11 18:15 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-12 8:22 ` Alex Kost
2016-08-11 16:42 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-12 8:33 ` Alex Kost
2016-08-12 8:41 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-12 10:05 ` David Craven
2016-08-13 7:46 ` Alex Kost
2016-08-13 13:00 ` David Craven
2016-08-13 13:18 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-14 16:00 ` Alex Kost
2016-08-10 14:25 ` Thompson, David
2016-08-10 17:56 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-11 10:15 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-08-11 10:21 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-08-11 11:06 ` David Craven
2016-08-11 11:41 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-08-11 11:46 ` David Craven
2016-08-10 11:46 ` How to get the package metadata as structured data? Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-10 12:14 ` Catonano [this message]
2016-08-10 12:52 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-10 23:40 ` Catonano
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2016-08-04 18:37 Philippe Ombredanne
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