Re: Proposed (guix platforms) lookup procedures API change

[Simon Tournier]

Hi Maxim,

On ven., 13 janv. 2023 at 22:23, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> There is currently a proposed change [0] to modify the behavior of the
> LOOKUP-PLATFORM-BY-SYSTEM, LOOKUP-PLATFORM-BY-TARGET and
> LOOKUP-PLATFORM-BY-TARGET-OR-SYSTEM public procedures from (guix
> platforms) that would have them return an exception instead of #f when
> no platform could be found.
>
> [0]  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/60802

Good idea.

Just to note that the only place using (ice-9 exceptions) is in the
module (guix build minetest-build-system).  Instead, the exceptions are
using SRFI-35 [1].

1: <https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/SRFI_002d35.html>


Cheers,
simon