Re: ANN: guix-import-debian

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hartmut Goebel <address@hidden> skribis:

> Am 02.05.2016 um 10:24 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> Nice work!
> Thanks.
>
>> Would be great to have it integrated in ‘guix import’.  Did you look at
>> the other importers in guix/import/*.scm?  Hopefully it should be simple
>> enough to do the same within this framework, even without being a
>> die-hard Schemer ;-), and it would be readily available to all of Guix.
>
> Do you mean intergrating my tool into "guix import" or reimplement it in
> guile? In both cases somebody else would need to take on the job.

Fair enough!

> While having it readily available in guix would indeed be good, I'm not
> going to do it 1) I'm not a guile-programmer and doing this would take
> me too much time which I could spend more useful on other stuff. 2)
> Parsing debian-822-like files seams to be non-trivial (given there is a
> quite complex python module for this task), re implementing this in
> guile seams to be quite a bit of work.

ISTR that this syntax is very close to that of recutils, for which we
already have a simple parser in (guix records).  But yeah, dunno, maybe
there are other complications.

Anyway, thanks for your work!

Ludo’.