On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 08:28:30AM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > > if we support a decentralized system of externally-managed > > repositories. > > No. Break them. > > If you're running an external Guix repository and don't bother to follow > the main development branch(es) with some attention, your users deserve > to get regular breakage warnings as a subtle hint that maybe they > shouldn't be trusting you with their software.
Exactly. I am thinking plugins themselves can be part of the Guix package tree and come with tests. That way we can keep an eye on 'infrastructure' code. Pulling in packages from elsewhere - it is up to the registries to test things and maintain compatibility. > There seem to be two different meanings of ‘support’ at play here: > - adding decentralised repository support to Guix so it can at least > be done in a clean user-friendly way, which I think is excellent > vs. > - promising some kind of API stability to those repositories, which > I think is terrible. Yeah. I am not looking for that. I think it is good to break stuff for future considerations. That is one advantage FOSS has. The code is out in the open... I also agree that we should encourage freedom and exploration. Pj. --
