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Re: Merging the “binary” NPM importer?
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Maxim Cournoyer |
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Re: Merging the “binary” NPM importer? |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Oct 2021 21:51:09 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hey,
Christine Lemmer-Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> pinoaffe <pinoaffe@airmail.cc> skribis:
>>
>>> Recently, I made an effort to get the guix-npm binary importer working
>>> in combination with a relatively "modern" guix - my changes are rather
>>> hacky and I think I may have broken a thing or two, but i got it to work
>>> reasonably well in the REPL.
>>> (many thanks to Jelle Licht and possibly others who initially wrote the
>>> importer)
>>>
>>> Considering that such a binary importer is probably not well-suited for
>>> inclusion in guix-proper, I would like to make it available through an
>>> additional channel, mostly for my own use but maybe also for others.
>>
>> We’ll have to check what maintainers think, but I’ve come to think that
>> we could include it in Guix proper, while of course properly documenting
>> its shortcomings.
>>
>> We would probably not include packages made with it in Guix proper, but
>> it can still be useful to users who want a way to manage free JS code
>> with Guix. And on top of that, it already exists. :-)
>>
>> Thoughts?
I'm not too keen on having an importer which produces packages that
can't be included in Guix proper -- it seems a double standard to me.
I'd personally prefer to have such tool maintained outside of Guix
proper.
My 2 cents.
Maxim
- Re: Merging the “binary” NPM importer?,
Maxim Cournoyer <=
- Re: Merging the “binary” NPM importer?, Katherine Cox-Buday, 2021/10/08
- Re: Merging the “binary” NPM importer?, Timothy Sample, 2021/10/12
- Re: Merging the “binary” NPM importer?, Maxim Cournoyer, 2021/10/13
- Re: Merging the “binary” NPM importer?, Ludovic Courtès, 2021/10/14
- Opining on "modern" development practices (was Re: Merging the “binary” NPM importer?), Katherine Cox-Buday, 2021/10/14
- Re: Opining on "modern" development practices (was Re: Merging the “binary” NPM importer?), Ludovic Courtès, 2021/10/21
- Re: Opining on "modern" development practices (was Re: Merging the “binary” NPM importer?), Katherine Cox-Buday, 2021/10/28
- Re: Opining on "modern" development practices (was Re: Merging the “binary” NPM importer?), Ludovic Courtès, 2021/10/29