[bug#35684] import: github: Sort releases before picking the latest one.

[Arun Isaac]

> If you don’t mind, you can make it two patches for clarity (one that
> defines ‘release->version’, and one that adds the call to ‘sort’)

Sure, pleae find attached.

From c96956bc6e944f9691773640e402c15215078943 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arun Isaac <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 15:44:46 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] import: github: Improve readability.

* guix/import/github.scm (latest-released-version)[release->version]: Separate
out release->version as a new function.
---
 guix/import/github.scm | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/guix/import/github.scm b/guix/import/github.scm
index 4d12339204..5f4d9c7267 100644
--- a/guix/import/github.scm
+++ b/guix/import/github.scm
@@ -174,6 +174,29 @@ the package e.g. 'bedtools2'.  Return #f if there is no 
releases"
   (define (pre-release? x)
     (hash-ref x "prerelease"))
 
+  (define (release->version release)
+    (let ((tag (or (hash-ref release "tag_name") ;a "release"
+                   (hash-ref release "name")))   ;a tag
+          (name-length (string-length package-name)))
+      (cond
+       ;; some tags include the name of the package e.g. "fdupes-1.51"
+       ;; so remove these
+       ((and (< name-length (string-length tag))
+             (string=? (string-append package-name "-")
+                       (substring tag 0 (+ name-length 1))))
+        (substring tag (+ name-length 1)))
+       ;; some tags start with a "v" e.g. "v0.25.0"
+       ;; where some are just the version number
+       ((string-prefix? "v" tag)
+        (substring tag 1))
+       ;; Finally, reject tags that don't start with a digit:
+       ;; they may not represent a release.
+       ((and (not (string-null? tag))
+             (char-set-contains? char-set:digit
+                                 (string-ref tag 0)))
+        tag)
+       (else #f))))
+
   (let* ((json (fetch-releases-or-tags url)))
     (if (eq? json #f)
         (if (%github-token)
@@ -183,32 +206,10 @@ API when using a GitHub token")
 API. This may be fixed by using an access token and setting the environment
 variable GUIX_GITHUB_TOKEN, for instance one procured from
 https://github.com/settings/tokens";))
-        (any
-         (lambda (release)
-           (let ((tag (or (hash-ref release "tag_name") ;a "release"
-                          (hash-ref release "name")))   ;a tag
-                 (name-length (string-length package-name)))
-             (cond
-              ;; some tags include the name of the package e.g. "fdupes-1.51"
-              ;; so remove these
-              ((and (< name-length (string-length tag))
-                    (string=? (string-append package-name "-")
-                              (substring tag 0 (+ name-length 1))))
-               (substring tag (+ name-length 1)))
-              ;; some tags start with a "v" e.g. "v0.25.0"
-              ;; where some are just the version number
-              ((string-prefix? "v" tag)
-               (substring tag 1))
-              ;; Finally, reject tags that don't start with a digit:
-              ;; they may not represent a release.
-              ((and (not (string-null? tag))
-                    (char-set-contains? char-set:digit
-                                        (string-ref tag 0)))
-               tag)
-              (else #f))))
-         (match (remove pre-release? json)
-           (() json) ; keep everything
-           (releases releases))))))
+        (any release->version
+             (match (remove pre-release? json)
+               (() json) ; keep everything
+               (releases releases))))))
 
 (define (latest-release pkg)
   "Return an <upstream-source> for the latest release of PKG."
-- 
2.21.0

From 8192712f8108d0abcd527ff6b16af073c453b780 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arun Isaac <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 15:46:19 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] import: github: Sort releases before picking the latest
 one.

* guix/import/github.scm (latest-released-version): Sort releases before
picking the first one as the latest.
---
 guix/import/github.scm | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/guix/import/github.scm b/guix/import/github.scm
index 5f4d9c7267..cdac70420a 100644
--- a/guix/import/github.scm
+++ b/guix/import/github.scm
@@ -206,10 +206,13 @@ API when using a GitHub token")
 API. This may be fixed by using an access token and setting the environment
 variable GUIX_GITHUB_TOKEN, for instance one procured from
 https://github.com/settings/tokens";))
-        (any release->version
-             (match (remove pre-release? json)
-               (() json) ; keep everything
-               (releases releases))))))
+        (match (sort (filter-map release->version
+                                 (match (remove pre-release? json)
+                                   (() json) ; keep everything
+                                   (releases releases)))
+                     version>?)
+          ((latest-release . _) latest-release)
+          (() #f)))))
 
 (define (latest-release pkg)
   "Return an <upstream-source> for the latest release of PKG."
-- 
2.21.0

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