Re: [Fwd: Re: [repology/repology] Add Guix support (#218)]

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Eric Bavier <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:14:12 +0000
> ng0 <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> how often do we update the data on the website (I haven asked which
>> data though)? Is it in anyway accurate or just a snapshot taken once
>> a month?
>
> The "packages" pages are updated nightly from the git master branch.
>
>> And I don't know nothing about a json involved in the website, but I also
>> haven't looked at the current code which generates the packages websites.
>
> HTML+javascript is generated from the package modules.  If they want
> something more programmer-friendly than scrapping HTML, they could get
> the same data from the packages themselves through Guile.

To whom it may concern ;-), there’s also the little-known
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/packages.json>, which was
added for similar reasons.

Ludo’.