Re: guix import crate wraps #:cargo-inputs twice

[Pjotr Prins]

Dear all,

We also have a Rust tool we want to package in Guix, but Rust (like Go
and JS) appears to encourage an insane list of dependencies:

https://github.com/chfi/rust-qtlreaper/blob/master/Cargo.lock

Look at this list. This is for a very simple tool that does some
input, output and a computation!!

At the moment I am inclined to run Cargo after the Guix install. A bit
similar to what we did with Go and IPFS earlier. 

A working importer would be great news.

Same for Racket, btw. 

Pj.

On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 09:08:16AM -0700, Ivan Petkov wrote:
>    Hi Jelle,
> 
>    On Jul 2, 2019, at 1:05 AM, Jelle Licht <[1]address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>    Shameless plug; I have some guile code lying around for dealing
>    with exactly these problems; `guile-semver'[1] might give you a start
>    for handling these cases.
>    [1]: [2]https://notabug.org/jlicht/guile-semver
> 
>    Fantastic, this looks super promising! I have some ideas on how we
> 
>    could integrate this into the importer, I’ll take a closer look when I
>    get
> 
>    the chance!
> 
>    —Ivan
> 
> References
> 
>    1. mailto:address@hidden
>    2. https://notabug.org/jlicht/guile-semver