Hi, Christopher Allan Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> writes:
> Thompson, David writes: > >> Hi Christopher and Jan, >> >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Christopher Allan Webber >> <cweb...@dustycloud.org> wrote: >>> Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: >>> >>>> Christopher Allan Webber writes: >>>> >>>>> Thanks! >>>>> >>>>> The file is updated, and even nicer now, since I'm using a hack from >>>>> guile-sdl2 which allows you to set the source to the whole checkout. >>>> >>>> Ohh! That needs to go in the Guix manual... could git-file? be added >>>> to guix/utils? >>> >>> Maybe! I think David knows more about the provenance? >> >> I took this code from Ludovic. See make-git-predicate in >> gnu/packages/package-management.scm in the Guix source tree. >> >>> I agree it would be nice to have in Guix itself. >> >> Agreed. A generalized and publicly available procedure would be great. >> >> - Dave > > Hello! See the above conversation... 8sync now uses `git-file?' in its > guix.scm, a predicate check which allows for checking out the whole > local directory as a "source" for testing a package. I borrowed it from > Dave who originally adapted it from some code in Guix itself. See: > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/8sync.git/tree/guix.scm#n62 > > This is pretty handy; probably other projects would like to make use of > it. What do we think of making it a generally available utility? I would make use of it and I am in favour of adding it to Guix. Thanks. -- Mathieu Lirzin GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37
