On Sun, 14 Jan 2018 17:43:27 +0100 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <m...@tobias.gr> wrote:
> Gábor Boskovits wrote on 14/01/18 at 17:13: > > Maybe we could use guix to check for these, and some > > other things could also be spotted. > > WDYT? > > Agreed, I think. Yeah, +1 > We should be able to improve the quality of these guesses: the > repository URI is about as likely to be foo://bar/<package>... as a > regular tarball URI. > > Or we make a file-name mandatory for certain methods. I agree that some heuristics to figure out the file-name from (svn-reference-url ref) would be nice. It's not that important that the store filenames are meaningful to humans, it's just nice-to-have. So I'd say heuristic it and be done with it. On second thought, maybe even default file-name to the Guix package name (if possible at this point in Guix). The hash value will make it unique regardless (for example if there are multiple svn-download blocks in the same package)
