Re: Nested gexps in mcron job definitions

2024-12-09 Thread Yulran
Hi Julien, thank you! That does work. So if I understand correctly, #$ doesn't only escape #~ but also unquotes quoted lists. That's good to know! It's possible a good fraction of my recurring troubles with gexps came from not realizing that. On Mon, Dec 09 2024, Julien Lepiller wrote: > Hi Yu

Re: Nested gexps in mcron job definitions

2024-12-09 Thread Julien Lepiller
Hi Yulran, I think this is related to how gexps are expanded. In your first gexp, you use #$accounts, which expands to ("account1" "account2"), and it's interpreted as a procedure call. Untested, but '#$accounts should work. It might be easier to work with a single gexp, like so: #~(job '(nex

Nested gexps in mcron job definitions

2024-12-09 Thread Yulran
Hi guix, I'm having trouble with nesting g-expressions when defining a mcron job. I want the job to run the same "mastodon-archive" commands for several accounts, so I define a list of accounts and use 'map' to build the complete command. This works well when there are only strings involved, bu