Hi, Arun Isaac <arunis...@systemreboot.net> skribis:
>> The “0.0-git” string comes from (guix self). As noted there, we can’t >> really afford to change the version string at each commit, or we’d have >> to rebuild the manual at each commit. >> >> We could perhaps choose a more meaningful version string, though, maybe >> by looking at the closest tag or something. > > That sounds good, and `git describe` could provide us with the closest > tag. Unfortunately, (git) doesn't seem to be available during `guix > pull`. I'm trying to come up with workarounds. Do you have any ideas? I’m not sure exactly. (guix self) receives a commit ID as #:version (though it doesn’t have to; it can be a random string too, as in ‘build-aux/compile-as-derivation.scm’). Maybe when (guix channels) ‘build-from-source’ invokes ‘build’, it could pass it an optional short version identifier guaranteed to rarely change. (There’s a (git describe) module in Guile-Git that might be helpful.) That version identifier must then be passed from ‘build-aux/build-self.scm’ all the way to ‘info-manual’ in (guix self). Thoughts? Ludo’.
