Re: a perl package

2017-03-16 Thread Eric Bavier
On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:42:38 +0100 Catonano wrote: > I'd like to try to package this thing > > http://search.cpan.org/~ken/xls2csv-1.07/ > > but Short answer: The cpan importer is currently not equipped to handle script-packages like this one. > > $ guix import cpan xls2csv > guix import: er

Re: What about dependency resolution à la apt?

2017-03-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Howdy Amirouche! Amirouche skribis: > Le 16/03/2017 à 21:28, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice a écrit : >> Amirouche, >> >> On 16/03/17 19:52, Amirouche wrote: >>> Héllo, >> Hi! >> >> I'm not the most technically qualified person to answer this, nor the >> most articulate, but I'm mainly curious and slight

Re: What about dependency resolution à la apt?

2017-03-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Amirouche, On 16/03/17 21:56, Amirouche wrote: > Le 16/03/2017 à 21:28, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice a écrit : >> [...] I'm mainly curious and slightly puzzled as to why >> this question keeps popping up. > > Sorry! Not at all. Thanks for making me think about this some more and put my thoughts into wo

Re: What about dependency resolution à la apt?

2017-03-16 Thread Amirouche
Le 16/03/2017 à 21:28, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice a écrit : Amirouche, On 16/03/17 19:52, Amirouche wrote: Héllo, Hi! I'm not the most technically qualified person to answer this, nor the most articulate, but I'm mainly curious and slightly puzzled as to why this question keeps popping up. Sor

Re: What about dependency resolution à la apt?

2017-03-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
On 16/03/17 21:28, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > [2]: Side rant: the myth of semantic versioning needs to die. > [...] > There is simply nothing there to take advantage of. To be taken with a grain of salt, but no more than one. Old man yells at packages, T G-R signature.asc Description: Ope

Re: What about dependency resolution à la apt?

2017-03-16 Thread Thompson, David
Hi Tobias, On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Amirouche, > > On 16/03/17 19:52, Amirouche wrote: >> Héllo, > > Hi! > > I'm not the most technically qualified person to answer this, nor the > most articulate, but I'm mainly curious and slightly puzzled as to why > this

Re: What about dependency resolution à la apt?

2017-03-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Amirouche, On 16/03/17 19:52, Amirouche wrote: > Héllo, Hi! I'm not the most technically qualified person to answer this, nor the most articulate, but I'm mainly curious and slightly puzzled as to why this question keeps popping up. I hope others will join in, since I fear this hints at some fun

What about dependency resolution à la apt?

2017-03-16 Thread Amirouche
Héllo, AFAIU guix does hardcode the dependencies so that to know the dependencies one has onlytocrawl the dependency DAG using a BFS or something. I don't know what is the exact part in guix that does that. It's only my understanding. What about having apt-like dependency resolution, also like

a perl package

2017-03-16 Thread Catonano
I'd like to try to package this thing http://search.cpan.org/~ken/xls2csv-1.07/ but $ guix import cpan xls2csv guix import: error: failed to download meta-data for package 'xls2csv' Efraim suggested me caps and colons, like the example in the manual guix import cpan Acme::Boolean But Acme-Boo