Subject: Re: [bug#29847] [PATCH] import: pypi: Stay in the REPL if fail to get a source

From: Oleg Pykhalov <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 18:55:05 +0300

Hello ng0,

ng0 <[email-masked]> writes:

> Why? Could you give some reasons why the current behavior is bad
> and what your code tries to improve in this regard?

Because of the documentation string says “return #f on failure” (not
kill REPL on failure or terminate a Guile process):

    Fetch the metadata for PACKAGE-NAME from pypi.python.org, and return the
    `package' s-expression corresponding to that package, or #f on failure.

and because Why an import package function kill my Emacs's Geiser?  :'(

I'm trying to implement recursive-import for pypi based on cran's
recursive-import.  Killing Guile process will be an issue, I guess.

Oleg.