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Re: Proposal: A new build-system API
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zimoun |
Subject: |
Re: Proposal: A new build-system API |
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Mon, 26 Sep 2022 12:49:02 +0200 |
Hi,
Thanks for your comments.
On lun., 26 sept. 2022 at 10:39, Mája Tomášek <maya.tomasek@disroot.org> wrote:
> (package
> ...
> (inputs list-of-inputs)
> (build-system some-build-system)
> (arguments (list-of-quoted #:key value))
> ...
> )
[...]
> (package
> ...
> (inputs list-of-inputs)
> (build-system
> (some-build-system
> (phases new-list-of-phases)
> (strip-binaries? #f)))
> ...
> )
Hum, from the surface, your proposal is to just move the arguments.
Currently, ’arguments’ are related to ’build-system’ – therefore, I do
not the difference between your proposal and the current situation.
However, this…
> (define-build-system some-build-system
> (inherit gnu-build-system)
> (name 'some)
> (description "Some build system")
> (phases %standard-phases)
> (strip-binaries? #t)
> ...
> (builder (thunked)
> (build-system->builder this-build-system))
> )
>
> The build-system->builder method would generate the build, with
> arguments properly adjusted, records translated into keyword arguments,
> for a standard build system, the alternative,
> would be to provide a (lambda (build-system)
> some-code-that-returns-derivation).
>
> The current system is good, but when you need to write your own build
> system, you needlessly need to write thins like ungexping arguments,
> running gexp->derivation, which is really the system by which the guix
> daemon operates, but which could really be abstracted away from the
> build system developer. The code writing for a complete build system is
> repetetive
> and complicated.
…is something different. Yeah, maybe some glue helpers could ease the
creation of new build-system. Nevertheless, please note that a
build-system somehow needs some plumbing and I am not convinced that
it would be doable to define a new build-system without diving in some
G-exp here or there.
I agree that the composition of existing bricks is not always
straightforward and it could be improved, eventually. :-)
Cheers,
simon