Hi, Bruno Victal <mi...@makinata.eu> skribis:
> IMO there are some procedures (or even modules) that could be relocated into > (guix utils) as their utility is more general than what their module names > would suggest. > > Good candidates to relocate into (guix utils): > * (gnu home services utils) Hmm, not sure. > * list-of, interpose, alist?, list-of-string? from (gnu services > configuration) I think it’s fine to keep them over there. :-) The rationale is that one Shouldn’t™ be using things like ‘alist?’ and ‘list-of-string?’ in “real code”: they have linear complexity (like ‘list?’), they might be ill-defined, and we don’t generally write polymorphic code anyway. They *are* useful though as a limited form of contracts for ‘define-configuration’ fields, so it’s good to keep them there. Taking a step back, my inclination is to keep things local, or even private, until/unless there’s clear evidence of (1) usefulness beyond their initial place of birth, and (2) the interface is “clean” enough for them to be promoted. #2 is subjective, so it’s really on a case-by-case basis. My 2¢! Ludo’.
