Hi Ludo, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
> Here is the “new” ‘guix pull’ that we discussed notably in this thread: > > https://bugs.gnu.org/22629 Although I've been enjoying the new guix pull for a while now, I just today found the time to take a peek at these code changes. It's always educational to see how you write your code! I was surprised that "guix pull" doesn't build the guix package via the usual mechanisms (e.g., the way it would be built if I ran "guix build guix"). The new "guix pull" code builds a profile, so it seems like we could put packages in there (e.g., a guix package that inherits from the original but replaces the origin with a Git checkout). However, instead of re-using the build logic encapsulated in the guix package, it looks like we build Guix piece by piece using custom build logic in (guix self). Why do we do that? These improvements are great! I'm just curious about the motivation for the custom build logic. I'm guessing there is some sort of complication to simply using the guix package that is non-obvious, but I can't see what it is. -- Chris
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