Hi, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis:
> Can we simplify this case by adding manifest readers for different > formats? One simple format could be plain text: > > # this is for compilers > gfortran@5 > gcc-toolchain@5 > > # this is for fun > cdogs-sdl > > The manifest reader would just discard # comments and interpret each > non-empty line as a spec string. Sounds reasonable. I guess we’d need to add a new option to read this format, or should ‘guix package -m’ try to automatically dispatch based on the file name extension with a new --format option to override the guess? > While I love Scheme, I don’t think anything is to be gained from > exposing users who don’t want to use Scheme for manifests to opaque > blobs of code and syntax they don’t want to understand. I thought everyone needed their dose of parentheses, but maybe you’re right. :-) Ludo’.
