Re: Accuracy of importers?

2021-10-30 Thread Xinglu Chen
On Thu, Oct 28 2021, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello Guix! > > As I’m preparing my PackagingCon talk and wondering how language package > managers could make our lives easier, I thought it’d be interesting to > know how well our importers are doing. > > My understanding is that most of them require

Re: Time for a request-for-comments process?

2021-10-30 Thread zimoun
Hi Ludo, On Fri, 29 Oct 2021 at 17:08, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > As zimoun wrote, a big question is formalization. I haven’t yet taken > the time to look at those other project RFC processes I mentioned, but > we should do that. Important questions are: how do we determine whether > a change is

Re: Accuracy of importers?

2021-10-30 Thread zimoun
Hi Ludo, On Fri, 29 Oct 2021 at 23:57, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > (It’s quite expensive to run because it downloads a whole bunch of > things and tries many 404 URLs in the case of CRAN before finding the > right one.) Ah… it requires investigation thus. > --8<---cut here---

Re: Preservation of Guix 2021-10-22

2021-10-30 Thread zimoun
Hi Ludo, On Fri, 29 Oct 2021 at 16:30, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Could it be that the scikit-learn repo contains “weird” (non-canonical) > Git objects? Yes. It is my understanding from what olasd more or less explained on #swh-devel. Other said, for some cases, it is not covered not because Gu

Re: Mutable Git tags & Software Heritage

2021-10-30 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Fri, 29 Oct 2021 at 16:12, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> At package time, Guix uses tag. Then “guix lint” saves the upstream >> repo; containing the correct tag. Now, upstream replaces in-place the >> tag and saves to SWH by their own. How does SWH deal with this case? > > SWH records the