bug#59423: Invalid 'location' field generated in dovecot configuration

[Ludovic Courtès]

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:

> Thanks for this extra bit of information and for spotting this usage.  I
> think "location" is likely to conflict for the general purpose
> 'define-configuration' generated records, so I've renamed the "location"
> *accessor* to "source-location".

Thank you.

It wasn’t my preferred solution¹ but I think it’s a good one.

¹ https://issues.guix.gnu.org/59423#15-lineno81

> In the near future I want to migrate more service configurations to the
> 'define-configuration' machinery, to benefit from its useful
> self-validating property.  For now I wouldn't feel at ease doing so
> unless raw record matching (not yet using 'match-record') works the same
> way, since we still have many occurrences making use of that (often via
> match-lambda).  For that reason, I prefer to not revert the record
> layout until we've gotten rid of all the match-lambda matching record
> fields directly (which will take some time).

Right, especially given that ‘match-record’ was added in 2017.  :-)

We’ll have to discuss the implications of a possible move to
‘define-configuration’.  For example, ‘define-configuration’ cannot
report missing field values (for fields that lack a default value) at
macro-expansion time, contrary to plain ‘define-record-type*’.  Anyway,
future work!

Ludo’.