> On Jan 28, 2019, at 12:44 AM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>
> Outputs are only generated when building the package.
>
> If all you need is the source code, however, you can use (package-source
> the-package) and use the resulting value as an input to another package.
Thanks Ricardo, I think this
Ivan Petkov writes:
> However, it appears that guix still insists on building the entire package
> even
> if we only depend on the "src" output. Is it possible to lazily build packages
> based on the type of dependency? Is this something the build system can
> finagle,
> or is this an inheren
Answering my own question after digging through the guix source, maybe someone
can correct me if I’ve gotten things wrong!
> On Jan 25, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Ivan Petkov wrote:
>
> However, it appears that guix still insists on building the entire package
> even
> if we only depend on the "src" out
Thank you all for the responses!
> Cycles. Also, often Cargo.lock specifies exact versions of dependencies (in
> programs, at least)
Yes, this is pretty much the main issue I immediately hit when doing a naive
crate import, more on this further down.
> First, we'd have to find out what kind of
Hi Ivan,
On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 16:11:58 -0800
Ivan Petkov wrote:
> Are there any philosophical or technical blockers that preclude pulling in
> packages from crates.io,
Cycles. Also, often Cargo.lock specifies exact versions of dependencies (in
programs, at least).
>or is it just a matter of c
Ludovic Courts transcribed 1.9K bytes:
> Hello Ivan,
>
> Ivan Petkov skribis:
>
> > I'm new to both Guix and Guile/Scheme and decided to get my feet wet by
> > attempting to package a non-trivial Rust crate into Guix.
>
> Cool, thanks for getting in touch!
>
> > This seems like something other
Hello Ivan,
Ivan Petkov skribis:
> I'm new to both Guix and Guile/Scheme and decided to get my feet wet by
> attempting to package a non-trivial Rust crate into Guix.
Cool, thanks for getting in touch!
> This seems like something others have tried before me with varying degrees of
> success (I