Re: [PATCH] services: nginx: Allow for server extensions.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 10:07:23AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> David Thompson <address@hidden> skribis:
>> 
>> > Looking for some feedback on my first stab at making the nginx service
>> > extensible.  With this extension mechanism, future web applications
>> > (such as GNU MediaGoblin) that use nginx as a front-end web server will
>> > be able to extend nginx with the server configuration that they need in
>> > order to work.
>> 
>> Excellent!
>> 
>> > Here's a useless service that adds nginx configuration to serve the
>> > contents of /tmp:
>> >
>> >     (define server
>> >       (plain-file "foo.conf"
>> >                   "
>> >     server {
>> >       listen 80;
>> >       root /tmp;
>> >       index index.html;
>> >       server_name dthompson.us;
>> >     }
>> >     "))
>> 
>> Do you think it would make sense to provide Scheme bindings for those
>> ‘server’ configuration snippets, or would we lose too much
>> expressiveness?
>
> I think you might lose too much, although I don't use GuixSD so I
> don't know if there are other programs that are configured through
> Scheme bindings. I know that I don't like the Nix bindings for systemd
> in NixOS. They can't keep up with the pace of development in systemd and
> provide a limited set of features.

Right, that’s exactly why I was asking: in some cases it’s OK to write
bindings (they’re more convenient and just as expressive), but in other
cases they’d be a loss, as you explain.

Thanks for your feedback!

Ludo’.