Christopher Baines <m...@cbaines.net> writes:
> Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > >> That would be great. In the end, it seems to be that there are quite a >> few services we could build around the Data Service. I’m not sure how >> they should interact. >> >> For instance, Mumi could talk to data.guix.gnu.org over an HTTP API, or >> should we replicate the database at issues.guix.gnu.org so that Mumi can >> tap directly into it? >> >> Likewise, how should something like hpcguix-web (the package browser at >> <https://hpc.guix.info/browse>) exploit available data, for instance to >> show the history of package versions? > > So I've got an initial thing working for the version histories now. You > can construct a URL like [1], which will show a table about the known > versions of the package (icecat in this case) on the master branch. > > 1: http://data.guix.gnu.org/repository/1/branch/master/package/icecat > > The same data is available in JSON [2], and that might work for getting > the data in the hpcguix-web service. > > 2: http://data.guix.gnu.org/repository/1/branch/master/package/icecat.json This is incredibly cool. Suddenly I understand how useful the Data Service could turn out to be! Alex
