Hi, Am Montag, der 20. Dezember 2021, um 23:31 +012, schrieb Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org>:
> I think we need to come to a shared understanding of what the next steps > are. Once we have that, we can clarify the current status in the manual > and release announcement, and open issues so that anyone who’d like to > contribute knows where to look at. Yeah, maybe we could create a bug report listing all the things that should be done/fixed before we start adding too many new home services? >> I think one of the problems is that there is not really any style guide >> for now to write services (I do have a WIP patch in my local tree that >> will document most of (gnu services configuration) though :-)). > > I see you’ve sent it in the meantime, neat! Andrew also sent a patch that provides some guidelines for how to write services[1], in case you haven’t seen it already. >> We also lack a way to properly test home services; we would need >> something similar to what Nix Home-manager has[1][2]. >> >> [1]: Nix code for configuring a program >> <https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/blob/master/tests/modules/programs/git/git.nix> >> [2]: Expected content of the serialized configuration >> <https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/blob/master/tests/modules/programs/git/git-expected.conf> > > OK. Given that ‘define-configuration’ works at a “meta” level, I wonder > if we could have tests that are less boring than this. What exactly do you mean by “meta” level? Do you have anything particular in mind regarding the tests? [1]: <https://yhetil.org/guix-patches/87h7b2b6n3....@trop.in/>
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