Re: pypi->guix script

[Thompson, David]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> "Thompson, David" <address@hidden> skribis:
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>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 3:06 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
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> [...]
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>>> It would indeed be nice to turn it into a ‘guix pipy’ command or
>>> something like that.  If need be, I can help with the details of
>>> integrating it.
>>>
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>> Yes, that would be nice.  What are your thoughts on this?
>
> The way forward would be to drop the file as guix/scripts/pipy.scm, and
> then adjust it to follow the calling convention that ‘run-guix-command’
> expects.  Similarly, it should use (guix build download).
>
> Since it uses Guile-JSON, maybe ./configure would have to check for its
> availability and disable compilation/installation when Guile-JSON is not
> found (in a way similar to BUILD_DAEMON_OFFLOAD, in config-daemon.ac.)
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> Then a test file and an entry in the manual would be perfect.
>

Thanks for the explanation.  I will add this to my list of projects. :)

- Dave