[bug#67917] [PATCH 0/2] guix import cpan improvements

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Wilko Meyer <w@wmeyer.eu> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I think this doesn’t belong here: right now, ‘define-public’ is added
>> when using ‘-r’ by ‘package->definition’ in (guix import utils).  This
>> is shared by most importers so we cannot just change it in a single
>> importer.
>
> This currently seems to be inconsistent among importers. crate and go
> always add define-public independent of using '-r', while e.g. egg, gnu,
> elpa etc. do not do that. I'll prepare a v2 of this patch series without
> this change, as the cpan importer should stay at its default behaviour.

Indeed.

> Speaking of '-r', the cpan importer doesn't offer recursively importing
> packages. I could add this functionality to the cpan importer in v2 of
> this patch series, WDYT?

Would be nice!

Ludo’.