Philippe Ombredanne <pombreda...@nexb.com> writes: > David Craven <da...@craven.ch> wrote: >> I aborted, since I realised that guix package -s doesn't include the >> source url and hash, which would be important for a testsuite... > > IMHO, if the rec data is the only way to get to the packages data, the > source url would be rather essential to get in.
The recutils output is not the *only* way to access the package data. All packages in Guix are just Scheme variables. Package data are available as S-expressions and can be read by Scheme programs or parsed by external applications. The recutils output is just an additional format used when interacting with Guix on the command line. (Personally, I’m not enthusiastic about adding a serialised form of the source field to the recutils output.) ~~ Ricardo
