RE: How to get the package metadata as structured data?

[Cook, Malcolm]

Hi,

Could the guix project please make available the results of `guix package -s .` 
that would list all available packages in recutils format for those who do not 
(yet) have fully functioning guix install?

Thanks?


 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Guix-devel [mailto:address@hidden
 > On Behalf Of Ludovic Courtès
 > Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2016 4:09 PM
 > To: Philippe Ombredanne <address@hidden>; David Craven
 > <address@hidden>
 > Cc: guix-devel <address@hidden>
 > Subject: Re: How to get the package metadata as structured data?
 > 
 > Hi!
 > 
 > David Craven <address@hidden> skribis:
 > 
 > > All package metadata can be accessed easily through scheme. There is
 > > no way to export this data currently, although it probably wouldn't be
 > > too hard to implement.
 > 
 > One way is:
 > 
 >   guix package -s .
 > 
 > which returns a recutils database¹, which is essentially plain text.
 > 
 > Alternately we could write a snippet to export it as JSON if you prefer.
 > 
 > Ludo’.
 > 
 > ¹ https://gnu.org/s/recutils/manual/html_node/The-Rec-Format.html