On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 03:12:26PM -0500, myglc2 wrote: > Thanks. I think the issue with this feature is that there is no guidance > for picking an URL. > > Here is an idea... What if hydra provided an URL guidance page? For > example, it could have a short list of "guix greatest hits URLs" for > which, hopefully, a full set of substitutes is maintained. Obvious > candidates for this list would be the last couple install images. Or, it > could provide a page ranking URLs by release date and showing substitute > coverage.
Don't the examples in the manual provide some guidance about how to use the feature? I meant to make it clear that you can ask the server for a snapshot of a release tag. Currently we don't have the capacity to keep substitutes spanning multiple release tags. I don't have the knowledge to evaluate the possibility of ranking commits by substitute coverage.
