2016-08-10 13:46 GMT+02:00 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>:

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> Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> writes:
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> > 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
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>
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...