From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: Ideas for Summer of Code 2017 Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 21:58:59 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87y3y5csr2.fsf@gnu.org> <8737fh6f02.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87shnh7r1y.fsf@openmailbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60546) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdNiC-0004nR-JW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 15:59:05 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdNi8-0004m6-NT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 15:59:04 -0500 Received: from mail-qk0-x22a.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c09::22a]:35120) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdNi8-0004la-IH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 15:59:00 -0500 Received: by mail-qk0-x22a.google.com with SMTP id u25so105903554qki.2 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 12:59:00 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87shnh7r1y.fsf@openmailbox.org> 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: Adonay Felipe Nogueira Cc: guix-devel > "Mark was completely right - it's total BS". Well I did some work on running guixsd on arm, part of which involved trying to make the linux-libre package more extensible. Mark criticized it as not being very well thought out, and I found that it was not very extensible. Coming from a background in functional programming I decided that it made sense to have a function -> package to create variants. But as it turns out Ludo already has created a great way of extending packages through records with (inherit). The function -> package thing doesn't work very well.