Hi,

Christopher Baines <m...@cbaines.net> skribis:

> zimoun <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

>> Using the Software Heritage (SWH) API [3], does it seems a good idea
>> to add SWH coverage somewhere in the Guix Data Services?

That’s a great idea!  Maybe it’s not a good idea to store that info in
the database of the Data Service though.  (Web browsers could query the
SWH API by themselves actually, though it’d be nice to have a JS-free
variant.)

> I think the first step towards this would be to experiment with fetching
> data from the Software Heritage API. Do you know how you'd fetch data
> about the output from a fixed output derivation (like harfbuzz)?

The ‘archival’ linter does that.  See also the examples at:

  
https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/connecting-reproducible-deployment-to-a-long-term-source-code-archive/

Ludo’.

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