Re: Trying to fix an error in the pypi-importer

[Ben Woodcroft]

Hi,

On 31/12/15 05:53, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi :)
>
> I am trying to fix this error in the pypi-importer:
[..]
> I read up on if-else with Guile and changed it to:
> (define (pypi-uri name version ending)
>   "Return a URI string for the Python package hosted on the Python 
> Package
> Index (PyPI) corresponding to NAME and VERSION."
>   (if (zero? ending)
>       (string-append "https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/";
>                  (string-take name 1) "/" name "/"
>                  name "-" version ".tar.gz"))
>   (else
>       (string-append "https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/";
>                  (string-take name 1) "/" name "/"
>                  name "-" version "." ending )))
You should just omit the (else and matching bracket to avoid the error.
> Will this work?
> I did a make and got:
>   GUILEC guix/build-system/python.go
> guix/build-system/python.scm:51:2: warning: possibly unbound variable 
> `else'
> wrote `guix/build-system/python.go'
For testing, there's no need to run make if you don't want, you can just 
run an the import and the new code will be used.

Seems like a good idea to me overall.

ben