Re: [PATCH] draft addition of github updater

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

>> +(define (latest-release guix-package)
>> +  "Return an <upstream-source> for the latest release of GUIX-PACKAGE."
>> +  (let* ((pkg (specification->package guix-package))
>
> Someone (Ricardo?) proposed recently to pass a package object instead of
> a package name to ‘latest-release’.
>
> We should do that ideally before this patch goes in, or otherwise soon.

Yes, it was me.  I’m still going through some of the many emails I
dropped (sorry, everone!) and hope to be able to write a patch to use
package objects soon.

~~ Ricardo