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Re: guix show --bibtex (was: How to compute SWHID? (with Guix/Disarchive
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zimoun |
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Re: guix show --bibtex (was: How to compute SWHID? (with Guix/Disarchive)) |
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Tue, 7 Dec 2021 18:39:18 +0100 |
Hi,
On Tue, 7 Dec 2021 at 18:07, Liliana Marie Prikler
<liliana.prikler@gmail.com> wrote:
> Given that `guix show' output is well-structured (it uses the Recutils
> format), couldn't you post-process to form a bibtex file? In
> particular, you could use recfmt IIUC.
Good idea. For an trivial example,
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ cat bibtex.tmpl
@example{ {{name}}@{{version}},
title = {{name}},
url = {{home-page}},
license = {{license}},
abstract = {{synopsis}},
swhid = {swh:1:...},
repository = "WE HAVE THAT INFO",
author = "?????",
date = "?????",
}
$ guix show hello | recfmt -f bibtex.tmpl
@example{ hello@2.10,
title = hello,
url = 0.000000,
license = GPL 3+,
abstract = Hello, GNU world: An example GNU package ,
swhid = {swh:1:...},
repository = "WE HAVE THAT INFO",
author = "?????",
date = "?????",
}
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
However, 2 minor annoying comments:
1. SWHID is not computed by "guix show".
2. Typing the path to the template; aside recutils is not installed
by default, IIRC.
Well, #2 could be solved with something under ~/.config/guix/current/bin.
About #1, it requires some work and I am not convinced I would like
that Guix does it each time I call "guix show".
> That said, there would be stuff like author etc. missing from Guix'
> metadata. What kind of output were you hoping to produce?
As much fields as possible. As the example above more or less. Well,
use bibtex-software as decribe here:
https://mirrors.chevalier.io/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-software/software-biblatex.pdf
Cheers,
simon