All of ELPA?

[jgarte]

Hi, first of all, congrats on this amazing channel.

I shared it on the mailing list: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2022-11/msg00147.html

would it be possible to generate guix packages for all of elpa also?

[babariviere]

Hello.

Thanks!

Yes, it would be possible, in theory. What we would need is an API similar to what provides melpa with https://melpa.org/archive.json to get the list of all packages.

After that, you would just need to parse the entries, use (guix import elpa) and create the packages as I have done in https://github.com/babariviere/guix-emacs/blob/master/scripts/update.

If you want to use it for guix repo, on things that should be reworked might be the override system. I still find it ugly and inefficient, but I am too lazy to rework it a second time haha. But if we manage to do overrides during code generation, it would be really cool and probably a lot cleaner.

[jgarte]

@babariviere

Do you think it would be too difficult to track nightlies for olive in an automated way with Guix?

https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/nightly.php

I was thinking to generate a Guix package for each olive nightly commit that passes their CI.

I think that your repo will provide some inspiration for this.

[jgarte]

Hello.

Thanks!

Yes, it would be possible, in theory. What we would need is an API similar to what provides melpa with https://melpa.org/archive.json to get the list of all packages.

After that, you would just need to parse the entries, use (guix import elpa) and create the packages as I have done in https://github.com/babariviere/guix-emacs/blob/master/scripts/update.

If you want to use it for guix repo, on things that should be reworked might be the override system. I still find it ugly and inefficient, but I am too lazy to rework it a second time haha. But if we manage to do overrides during code generation, it would be really cool and probably a lot cleaner.

automating a mirror of quicklisp would also be an awesome one to try but I heard that the best way is to get the data out with asdf build system is the best way.

https://beta.quicklisp.org/dist/quicklisp/2022-11-07/systems.txt

[babariviere]

@babariviere

Do you think it would be too difficult to track nightlies for olive in an automated way with Guix?

olivevideoeditor.org/nightly.php

I was thinking to generate a Guix package for each olive nightly commit that passes their CI.

I think that your repo will provide some inspiration for this.

I think you can but I can't see any API to provide the list of nightlies in a data friendly format. I guess you can only parse the HTML.

automating a mirror of quicklisp would also be an awesome one to try but I heard that the best way is to get the data out with asdf build system is the best way.

beta.quicklisp.org/dist/quicklisp/2022-11-07/systems.txt

Yes! This one won't be too hard. But again, the issue will be external dependencies. But, you will be able to generate all packages.

[jgarte]

@babariviere

All the PureScript packages are here in dhall format: https://github.com/purescript/package-sets

Would be cool if Guix had support for PureScript.