[bug#37857] [PATCH] guix: svn: Allow dropping externals

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Julien,

Julien Lepiller <address@hidden> skribis:

>>From 0ac412a3c912b2fe7ebd05d178120db50d47184e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Julien Lepiller <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 21:48:31 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] guix: svn: Allow dropping externals.
>
> * guix/build/svn.scm (svn-fetch): Allow to ignore externals.
> * guix/svn-download.scm (svn-reference, svn-multi-reference): Add
> fetch-externals? field.

Nice.

For consistency with git-download.scm & co., what about calling the
parameter and the field ‘recursive?’ rather than ‘fetch-externals?’?

>  (define-record-type* <svn-reference>
>    svn-reference make-svn-reference
>    svn-reference?
> -  (url       svn-reference-url)                    ; string
> -  (revision  svn-reference-revision)               ; number
> -  (user-name svn-reference-user-name (default #f))
> -  (password  svn-reference-password (default #f)))
> +  (url              svn-reference-url)                    ; string
> +  (revision         svn-reference-revision)               ; number
> +  (fetch-externals? svn-reference-fetch-externals? (default #t))

Do you know of packages that rely on externals?

It’d be great to eventually default to #f, but for that we’d need to
check every package that uses ‘svn-fetch’ (notably all the TeX Live
packages.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.