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#47871
[PATCH] import: Remove Nix importer.
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Reported by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 13:46:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 03:44:58PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I think we should stop making false promises about this importer,
> so here we go. I think it’s OK to apply during string freeze
> because it removes text without changing existing text.
Yeah, I agree it's time to remove it. Too often we have to tell people
that it doesn't work.
> Did you know that this code is actually the oldest piece of code
> in Guix? It was initially part of ‘gnupdater’, a script I had
> written to update GNU package definitions in Nixpkgs. Technically,
> it even predates Guix by one or two years. :-)
Wow! That's really something. It will be sad to see it go, but on the
other hand it's cool to see that we've outgrown it.
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