Subject: Re: [bug#51570] [PATCH] build-system: haskell: Add‘hackage-uri’ procedure.

From: Xinglu Chen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2021 12:52:59 +0100

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 03 2021, zimoun wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for this helpful patch.

You are welcome!  :-)

> On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 at 17:49, Xinglu Chen <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> +(define (hackage-uri name version)
>> +  "Return a URI string for the Haskell package hosted on Hackage corresponding
>> +to NAME and VERSION."
>> +  (string-append "https://hackage.haskell.org/package/" name "/"
>> +                 name "-" version ".tar.gz"))
>
> It seems the correct way.  Aside this change for future imports from
> Hackage, does it make sense to replace the current 'string-append' in
> all package definitions by this 'hackage-uri'?

That would be nice, but I don’t know of a way to automate this; maybe
you have some ideas?  :-)