Re: Debugging and source code

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi,

On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 14:22:48 +0100
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:

> Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
> > Since we allow for debug symbols using :debug (great feature!), 

Aha? Why's that not available in our icecat package? I have to find out how 
it's done elsewhere and copy it :)

> You can always get the right source code by running “guix build -S
> package”.
> 
> OTOH having the source directly in the “debug” (or “source”?) output as
> you suggest would be more convenient.
> 
> The only downside is the extra size of the “debug” output.  Most of the
> time that’s a price people are happy to pay when they are installing the
> “debug” output.  But sometimes maybe not.

Ahhh that's a difficult call. I think it would be best if we collected some 
statistics before we decided that. For example how big is the source code of a 
package versus the binary? On average? Depending on the language? How many % of 
the total size is the source code?