Hartmut Goebel <h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com> skribis: > Am 02.05.2016 um 10:24 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >> Nice work! > Thanks. > >> Would be great to have it integrated in ‘guix import’. Did you look at >> the other importers in guix/import/*.scm? Hopefully it should be simple >> enough to do the same within this framework, even without being a >> die-hard Schemer ;-), and it would be readily available to all of Guix. > > Do you mean intergrating my tool into "guix import" or reimplement it in > guile? In both cases somebody else would need to take on the job.
Fair enough! > While having it readily available in guix would indeed be good, I'm not > going to do it 1) I'm not a guile-programmer and doing this would take > me too much time which I could spend more useful on other stuff. 2) > Parsing debian-822-like files seams to be non-trivial (given there is a > quite complex python module for this task), re implementing this in > guile seams to be quite a bit of work. ISTR that this syntax is very close to that of recutils, for which we already have a simple parser in (guix records). But yeah, dunno, maybe there are other complications. Anyway, thanks for your work! Ludo’.
