Re: Problems with downloading from https

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès (2014-10-27 19:24 +0300) wrote:
>
>> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> Alex Kost <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> Why not just allow gnutls and other packages to install guile modules in
>>>> a site dir (without version) and to augment GUILE_LOAD_PATH with it as I
>>>> suggested at
>>>> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-10/msg00333.html>?
>>>
>>> In my opinion, this is the right fix.  There is plenty of Guile code
>>> that works on both Guile 1.8 and Guile 2.0, so there's no need to put
>>> Scheme modules in versioned directories.  We provide 'cond-expand' when
>>> it's really needed, after all.
>>
>> A problem is that it would make it impossible to install the 1.8/2.1 and
>> the 2.0 version of something in the same profile.
>>
>> Currently it’s possible to install both ‘python’ and ‘python2’ in the
>> same profile, as well as ‘python-foo’ and ‘python2-foo’.
>
> [...]
>
> But currently it's not possible to install 2 (or more) packages with the
> same name.  So a user can't have guile 2.0 and guile 1.8 in the same
> profile.  The same thing with python: there is no ‘python2’ package.
> Both python packages have “python” name and can't be installed in the
> same profile, as far as I understand.

Good point! (Somehow I thought there was ‘python2’.)

I don’t know if I’m in an over-engineering mindset or something ;-), but
I still feel keeping versioned directory is more flexible.

After all, parallel installability (info "(guile) Parallel
Installations") is initially intended to solve issues for FHS-style
systems.  Guix has other ways to deal with that.  But still, the same
kind of problems arise when mixing things in a Guix build environment or
profile.

Ludo’.