Re: 01/01: guix: node-build-system: Use guile-json instead of a custom parser.

[Julien Lepiller]

Le Sun, 14 Jul 2019 15:40:43 +0200,
Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> a écrit :

> Hi Julien,
> 
> address@hidden skribis:
> 
> > commit 8eb0ba532ebbebef23180e666e0607ea735f9c1a
> > Author: Julien Lepiller <address@hidden>
> > Date:   Sun Jul 14 14:50:21 2019 +0200
> >
> >     guix: node-build-system: Use guile-json instead of a custom
> > parser. 
> >     * guix/build/json.scm: Remove file.
> >     * Makefile.am: Remove it.
> >     * guix/build/node-build-system.scm: Use (json parser) instead
> > of (guix build json).
> >     * guix/build-system/node.scm: Idem.  
> 
> This commit log doesn’t spell out all the variables and entities that
> were modified.  Please consider doing it next time, for clarity.
> 
> > +++ b/guix/build-system/node.scm
> > @@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
> >  
> >  (define-module (guix build-system node)
> >    #:use-module (guix store)
> > -  #:use-module (guix build json)
> >    #:use-module (guix build union)
> >    #:use-module (guix utils)
> >    #:use-module (guix packages)
> > @@ -27,6 +26,7 @@
> >    #:use-module (guix build-system)
> >    #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
> >    #:use-module (ice-9 match)
> > +  #:use-module (json parser)
> >    #:export (npm-meta-uri
> >              %node-build-system-modules
> >              node-build
> > @@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ registry."
> >  (define %node-build-system-modules
> >    ;; Build-side modules imported by default.
> >    `((guix build node-build-system)
> > -    (guix build json)
> >      (guix build union)
> > +    (json parser)  
> 
> The effect of this change is to import the (json parser) from the host
> side into the build side.
> 
> As a result, if I have installed Guile-JSON 1.2 and you have
> Guile-JSON 3.1, we’ll end up building different derivations (and one
> of them won’t build :-)).
> 
> The solution here would be to do the equivalent of ‘with-extensions’
> for gexps.
> 
> However, given that that’s annoying to do without gexps, and given
> that the plan is to move build systems to gexps Real Soon, I’d be in
> favor of simply reverting this commit and using the custom JSON
> parser.  We can add a TODO/FIXME explaining that we’ll replace it
> with Guile-JSON as soon as build systems are rewritten to use gexps.
> 
> How does that sound?
> 
> Apologies if I overlooked it in your initial patch submission!
> 
> Thank you,
> Ludo’.

OK, sorry for pushing this patch then... I've reverted it in
a4bb18921099b2ec8c1699e08a73ca0fa78d0486. Thanks for the explanation!