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[PATCH] describe: Fix 'format' option.

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From: Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust <at> gmail.com>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: 33448 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#33448] [PATCH] describe: Add json format.
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:10:33 +0300

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Hello Ludovic,

Apologies for created previously separate bug reports of same patch
series.

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust <at> gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> * guix/scripts/describe.scm: Add json format.
>
> Please describe the modified and added variables/procedures.
>
>> +  (define (channels format)
>> +    (map (lambda (entry)
>> +       …
>> +                (generation-file-name profile number)))))))

Ups, I'll do this in followign patch series.

> How about turning this into a list of <channel> objects, and then,
> separately have ‘channels->sexp’ and ‘channels->json’?  That would avoid
> having dealing with the format in two different places.
>
> Also, could you mention the new format in the manual?
>
> Last question: what use case do you have in mind regarding the JSON
> format?  I’m asking because we don’t have tools that can consume it so
> far.

Well, I wanted to get a command line way to select things in ‘guix
channel’ output, e.g. to get a current ‘guix’ channel commit:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
./pre-inst-env guix describe --profile=$HOME/.config/guix/current --format=json | jq --raw-output 'map(select(.name == "guix"))'[0].commit
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I didn't think that ‘recsel’ actually could be used in the same way:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
./pre-inst-env guix describe --profile=$HOME/.config/guix/current --format=recutils | recsel -e 'name = "guix"' -P commit
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I'll send new patch series following current message.

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