Hello, I just realized that users of Guile 2.0.5 are observing weird behavior when substituting binaries: the substituter would remain silent, write “the server is unresponsive”, then remain silent some more, and finally write tens of lines of “progress report” in a row when it’s done downloading.
This is because 2.0.5’s HTTP client would return directly all of the downloaded data, instead of returning an input port, making it impossible to implement a progress report. (guix http-client) hides that, hence the behavior above. I really recommend upgrading Guile anyway, since 2.0.5 is 1.5 year old. We still want to support it though (because some distros still have that), but I’m not sure we can do much better. Well, we could do better by shipping the (web ...) modules from Guile 2.0.9 when we detect an old Guile, but that sounds overkill to me. Thoughts? Ludo’.
