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Re: Accuracy of importers?
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Julien Lepiller |
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Re: Accuracy of importers? |
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Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:38:12 -0400 |
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Le 28 octobre 2021 03:02:27 GMT-04:00, "Ludovic Courtès"
<ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> a écrit :
>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 manual intervention—i.e.,
>one has to tweak what ‘guix import’ produces, even if we ignore
>synopsis/description/license, to set the right inputs, etc. If we were
>to estimate the fraction of imported packages for which manual changes
>are needed, what would it look like?
>
> importer fraction of imported packages needing changes
>
> gnu 90% (doesn’t know about dependencies)
> pypi 50% (some miss source distro, “sdist”; some have
> non-Python deps)
> cpan ?
> hackage ?
> stackage (Lars?)
> egg (Xinglu?)
> elpa (Nicolas?)
> gem ?
> go (Sarah? Leo? Raghav?)
> cran 5% (Ricardo? Simon? seems to almost always work?)
> crate 10% (Efraim?)
> texlive (Ricardo? Thiago? Marius?)
> opam (Julien?)
I find it pretty good, when importing huge numbers of packages recently, I was
able to build all of them without modification. However, lots rely on a github
tarball, so I would change the source in these cases before sending them to
guix.
> minetest (Maxime? Vivien?)
> julia (WIP) (Simon?)
> npm (WIP) (Jelle? Timothy?)
>
>(Lower is better.) What would be your estimate?
>
>Among those, which importers provide source that differs from what you’d
>get from upstream’s checkout or release tarballs? My guess:
>
> pypi (see LastPyMile paper)
> elpa (gives hosted tarballs that can differ from upstream repo)
> gem (similar to PyPI)
> npm (ditto)
>
>What about licensing info: which ones provide accurate licensing info?
>My guess:
>
> gnu
> pypi
> cpan
> cran
> elpa
> go (?)
> cran
> crate (?)
> texlive
> opam (?)
> minetest (?)
>
>TIA! :-)
>
>Ludo’.
>
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