Re: [Guix Website] A Search Page for Packages

[Christopher Baines]

Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com> writes:

> Hello Guix,
>
> This message is in reply to an old one
> (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-07/msg00050.html),
> where Danjela shared the work done during the internship. Danjela
> said:
>
>> I'd like to know if you find the page useful so that I can hopefully
>> start working on incorporating the search functionality into this
>> page: https://guix.gnu.org/packages/.
>
> I'd like to have Danjela's project integrated as soon as
> possible. People have been asking for this feature for a long
> time. And we could take the oportunity to update URL paths to packages
> so that they work as permalinks, which is another change people have
> been asking for for a long time.
>
> What was the integration plan for Danjela's work, specifically? How can I 
> help?
>
> I have a copy of the "guix-packages-search.scm" script (don't remember
> where I got it from), and tried it out locally already.

So, personally I think the simplist path forward is to create
packages.guix.gnu.org as the domain, and do stuff there. That will help
avoid getting stuck up on how to integrate with the main website.

I'm more than happy to try and help others get this done, I just don't
have enough time at the moment to commit to it myself.

What Danjela produced in terms of the search is probably fine as
something to go with, maybe the additional thing that needs writing is
pages for the individual packages that the search can link to (they can
just be very simple initially).

But yeah, are you (or anyone else who's reading) up for hacking on this?

Chris

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