Hi, zimoun <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> skribis:
> The website is currently failing [1] to build because a typo in some > package declaration. The error message is not very helpful, > > srfi/srfi-1.scm:241:2: In procedure map: > In procedure map: Wrong type argument: "https://www.qt.io/"; > building pages in '/tmp/gnu.org/software/guix'... > > and it was not straightforward to find the issue. Using some ’pk’ in > the website builder restricted the origin of the failure; but still. > Thanks to Florian, they found this commit [2] introducing the package > qtshadertools where a field is unexpected, > > + (license (package-home-page qtbase)))) > > and boum! > > It seems impossible to detect that typo at compile-time because fields > do not have a specific type (except by convention). Therefore, how can > we detect such typo? I’m late to the party, but I have a proposal: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58231 Hope you like it! Ludo’.
