phodina via <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi Guix, > > Grafana [1] is an awesome tool to visualize and analyze various kind of data. > > It's FOSS project under AGPL3+. > > The small drawback is it's written in Go and Typescript. > > As far as I understand for Go there's the file go.mod describing the > dependencies [2] and for Typescript there's file package.json.[3] > > I've tried to use the guix import command, however, it fails to add even the > Go dependencies. > > Also since the dependency chain is obviously huge how should the porting be > done? > > Any experience porting some similar package with dos and don'ts? > > The short term solution at least in my case is to use the prebuilt > static binary which works after running patchelf on it. That's also > how Nix package looks like. [4] > > Here's what the importer returns: > > $ guix import go -r github.com/grafana/grafana > (define-public go-github-com-grafana-grafana > (package > (name "go-github-com-grafana-grafana") > (version "5.4.5+incompatible") > (source (origin > (method git-fetch) > (uri (git-reference > (url "https://github.com/grafana/grafana";) > (commit (go-version->git-ref version)))) > (file-name (git-file-name name version)) > (sha256 > (base32 > "1rgcy21amrh6syf21p2gpdbwzc2mcjw6wsbhwwr7v40rdx12rmcm")))) > (build-system go-build-system) > (arguments > '(#:import-path "github.com/grafana/grafana")) > (home-page "https://github.com/grafana/grafana";) > (synopsis "") > (description > "@@url{https://grafana.com,Website} | > @@url{https://twitter.com/grafana,Twitter} > | @@url{https://community.grafana.com,Community & Forum}") (license > license:asl2.0))) > > 1 https://grafana.com/ > 2 https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/main/go.mod > 3 https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/main/package.json > 4 > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/grafana.nix > > ---- > Petr Honestly, I think our Go importer needs to be rewritten to just use Go's libraries instead of trying to replicate all functionality in Guile. It does a lot of... let's say sub-optimal things currently, like cloning full git repos, when Go is smart enough to only clone what it needs for dependency resolution.
