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#32121
Cuirass: add support for multiple inputs
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Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
> So we’d be moving the project/branch structure to naming conventions.
Yes.
> In a way, that’s not great, because as users we like to think in terms
> of branches to answer questions like “how many packages failed in branch
> X of the Savannah repo?”.
>
> However, this can probably be addressed at the UI level: the web UI and
> guix-hydra.el could list (shortened) repo URLs and branch names instead
> of this ‘name’ field. Eventually, we could remove this ‘name’ field
> altogether and instead have an automatically-assigned numerical ID.
>
> WDYT?
>
> (This does not affect this patch series, I’m thinking about what we can
> do eventually.)
>
>> However, we could still be able to bind a specification to a branch, but
>> that would require adding a 'guix-input' specification field, so that
>> the specification knows which input is the one whose branch should be
>> displayed. I doubt it's worth it though. Or we could replace the
>> 'load-path-inputs' field with a 'guix-input' field. That was kind of
>> the point of the 3rd part of my initial message[1]. Or, we could
>> automate things: find out from which input the Guix modules come. That
>> would be a bit tricky.
>
> Oh right, since we now have multiple inputs, what I wrote above is not
> quite true; there can be several repo URLs/branches that would need to
> be shown on the UI. Hmm, maybe we need to keep the ‘name’, but only as
> a hint and not as a key.
Yes. As you said above, we could display a preview of all the inputs
(name, URL, branch) in that 'name' field. And call it 'inputs', maybe.
:-)
Cc'ing Tatiana, as this is a UI thing. Tatiana, you can follow the
whole conversation at:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-07/msg00023.html
and
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=32121.
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