From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH] draft addition of github updater Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 17:05:03 +0100 Message-ID: References: <5647D2A8.8040603@uq.edu.au> <87h9kmb8zs.fsf@gnu.org> <5675F96E.4090609@uq.edu.au> <87ziwmqtle.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51880) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aGU6m-0008Tn-Ci for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 11:05:17 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aGU6j-0003Ig-5p for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 11:05:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87ziwmqtle.fsf@gnu.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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: >> +(define (latest-release guix-package) >> + "Return an for the latest release of GUIX-PACKAGE= ." >> + (let* ((pkg (specification->package guix-package)) > > Someone (Ricardo?) proposed recently to pass a package object instead o= f > a package name to =E2=80=98latest-release=E2=80=99. > > We should do that ideally before this patch goes in, or otherwise soon. Yes, it was me. I=E2=80=99m still going through some of the many emails = I dropped (sorry, everone!) and hope to be able to write a patch to use package objects soon. ~~ Ricardo