Re: Per-package updaters?

[Ben Woodcroft]

Hi Ricardo,


On 27/12/16 01:00, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Hi Guix,
>
> we have a couple of generic package updaters (CPAN, CRAN, Bioconductor,
> Github, GNU, etc), but they don’t nearly cover all of our packages.  I
> wonder if we should add one-off updaters for individual packages that
> don’t fall into any of the generic classes of updaters.
>
> Another question is how to implement them.  Would there be another
> optional field in package expressions containing a Guile script to run
> to determine updates for the current package?
>
> What are your opinions on this?
How about we piggy-back on the good work of others, by putting a 
declaration in the package definition that the package has sister 
packages in other package managers? This would involve a level of 
munging of the other packager's versions, but this seems not difficult 
for well disciplined numbering schemes.

ben