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bug#42164: Combining file-append with gexps results in incomprehensible
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Maxime Devos |
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bug#42164: Combining file-append with gexps results in incomprehensible errors |
Date: |
Sat, 23 Apr 2022 19:06:34 +0200 |
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Evolution 3.38.3-1 |
Brian Cully schreef op za 23-04-2022 om 12:03 [-0400]:
> I was having a similar issue, so I dug into this issue a bit,
> and it turns out that you *can* select an output from file-append, but
> the syntax is a bit wonky:
>
> ---[snip]---
> (let ((fa (file-append pkg "/path")))
> $~$#fa:output)
> ---[snip]---
>
> I’ve tried to remove the let:
>
> ---[snip]---
> $~$#(file-append pkg "/path"):output
> ---[snip]---
Do you mean #~#$fa:output here?
>
> But this confuses the reader, an it things ‘:output’ is a
> variable. Not too surprising, but it does make the Guix configuration
> files more awkward, since now you have to ‘define’ the file-append
> operations at the top level so you can refer to them with the syntax
> above.
>
> I would prefer to have something like any of the following (in
> order of preference):
>
> ---[snip]---
> (file-append pkg:output "/path")
This one is only possible if file-append becomes syntax instead of a
procedure.
> (file-append (list pkg "output") "/path")
Possible, but seems semantically wrong to me -- what's a list doing in
a file-manipulating procedure?
> (file-append $~$#pkg:output "/path")
I assume this would be #~#$pkg:output?
My bikeshed proposal:
(file-append (output glibc "static") "/lib/...")
Here, 'output' is a procedure constructing some kind of object.
This would also be useful outside 'file-append', as it allows
programmatically constructing equivalents #~#$pkg:output for multiple
'output' (there was some package definition some while back where this
would have been useful).
This 'output' could perhaps also be used in 'inputs' / 'native-inputs'
fields. YMMV.
Greetings,
Maxime.
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- bug#42164: Combining file-append with gexps results in incomprehensible errors, Brian Cully, 2022/04/23
- bug#42164: Combining file-append with gexps results in incomprehensible errors,
Maxime Devos <=
- bug#42164: Combining file-append with gexps results in incomprehensible errors, Brian Cully, 2022/04/23
- bug#42164: Combining file-append with gexps results in incomprehensible errors, Maxime Devos, 2022/04/23
- bug#42164: Combining file-append with gexps results in incomprehensible errors, Brian Cully, 2022/04/23
- bug#42164: Combining file-append with gexps results in incomprehensible errors, Maxime Devos, 2022/04/23
- bug#42164: Combining file-append with gexps results in incomprehensible errors, Brian Cully, 2022/04/24
- bug#42164: Combining file-append with gexps results in incomprehensible errors, Maxime Devos, 2022/04/25