GNU bug report logs - #55653
[PATCH] guix: Add syntactic sugar for profile generation.

Previous Next

Full log

Message #14 received at 55653 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Andrew Tropin <andrewtropin <at> gmail.com>, 55653 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>, zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#55653: [PATCH] guix: Add syntactic sugar for profile
 generation.
Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 20:07:09 +0200

Hi,

Am Dienstag, dem 31.05.2022 um 15:47 +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> So the goal is to make things slightly more concise than:
> 
>   (profile (content (packages->manifest (list …))))
> 
> right?
More or less.  However, I also feel that "content" is somewhat
confusing if it were to be user-facing so I added a syntactic manifest
noop as well.

> We don’t have syntactic sugar like this elsewhere, and I would prefer
> to remain consistent here.  
We do have origin sha256, which sets both hash-algo and hash-content,
so it's not unprecedented in my opinion.

> However, if that helps, we could have a procedure, like:
> 
>   (define (packages->profile name packages)
>     (profile (name name) …))
> 
> Thoughts?
I do think syntactic constructors feel better here, because the end
goal would be embedding things in (thunked) configuration fields. 
Having a procedure might be acceptable, but feels more clunky in the
context of Guix.

Chees

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.