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Re: Sanitizer of record fields?
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Sanitizer of record fields? |
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Sat, 01 Oct 2022 18:35:24 +0200 |
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Hi,
zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:
> The website is currently failing [1] to build because a typo in some
> package declaration. The error message is not very helpful,
>
> srfi/srfi-1.scm:241:2: In procedure map:
> In procedure map: Wrong type argument: "https://www.qt.io/"
> building pages in '/tmp/gnu.org/software/guix'...
>
> and it was not straightforward to find the issue. Using some ’pk’ in
> the website builder restricted the origin of the failure; but still.
> Thanks to Florian, they found this commit [2] introducing the package
> qtshadertools where a field is unexpected,
>
> + (license (package-home-page qtbase))))
>
> and boum!
>
> It seems impossible to detect that typo at compile-time because fields
> do not have a specific type (except by convention). Therefore, how can
> we detect such typo?
I’m late to the party, but I have a proposal:
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58231
Hope you like it!
Ludo’.
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