Re: [Feature idea] Adding wikidata, wikipedia & screenshot-url fields to package-recipes

2018-11-03 Thread Catonano
Il giorno ven 2 nov 2018 alle ore 00:20 swedebugia ha scritto: > Hi Amirouche > > On 2018-11-01 14:37, Amirouche Boubekki wrote: > > > Implementation: > > It could be implemented by adding the fields to package-objects. > > nitpick, those are records in guile scheme. > > Did you mean to correct

Re: [Feature idea] Adding wikidata, wikipedia & screenshot-url fields to package-recipes

2018-11-02 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 12:37:15PM +0100, swedebugia wrote: >Ok. Is there a json guile module? Yup. Dave wrote one, I believe. There is one shipped with Guix. It is probably this one https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Guile-json#Details >How would I go about mixing python and guile? Export

Re: [Feature idea] Adding wikidata, wikipedia & screenshot-url fields to package-recipes

2018-11-02 Thread swedebugia
On 2018-11-02 08:24, Pjotr Prins wrote: On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 11:33:48PM +0100, swedebugia wrote: >> When you have a proof-of-concept we can even consider writing a >> paper about it. That would probably be fun :) I did not write a paper for a long time and never in the field of

Re: [Feature idea] Adding wikidata, wikipedia & screenshot-url fields to package-recipes

2018-11-02 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 11:33:48PM +0100, swedebugia wrote: > Wikidata is linked data and dry and by using it we can share between > distros and software building projects (conda, easybuild etc.). It > scales because the software maintainers themselves will be encouraged > to update project

Re: [Feature idea] Adding wikidata, wikipedia & screenshot-url fields to package-recipes

2018-11-01 Thread swedebugia
Hi Amirouche On 2018-11-01 14:37, Amirouche Boubekki wrote: Implementation: It could be implemented by adding the fields to package-objects. nitpick, those are records in guile scheme. Did you mean to correct my use of "object" here? Your are right about that. Scheme Syntax:

Re: [Feature idea] Adding wikidata, wikipedia & screenshot-url fields to package-recipes

2018-11-01 Thread swedebugia
Hi :) On 2018-11-01 11:21, Pjotr Prins wrote: On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 10:44:19AM +0100, swedebugia wrote: Also to help us to associate new and existing packages with wikidata-entries we could devise a guile-programmed way to associate wikidata-entries to existing package objects

Re: [Feature idea] Adding wikidata, wikipedia & screenshot-url fields to package-recipes

2018-11-01 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
Hello, Like Pjotr I think it's a very good idea and the way forward. Find below my comments with some modulation. Le jeu. 1 nov. 2018 à 10:39, swedebugia a écrit : > > Hi > > I am a contributor to OSM and have seen how combining OSM and > Wikidata/Wikipedia (WP) has been very useful. > > I

Re: [Feature idea] Adding wikidata, wikipedia & screenshot-url fields to package-recipes

2018-11-01 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 10:44:19AM +0100, swedebugia wrote: >Also to help us to associate new and existing packages with >wikidata-entries we could devise a guile-programmed way to associate >wikidata-entries to existing package objects and perhaps use this to >populate new

[Feature idea] Adding wikidata, wikipedia & screenshot-url fields to package-recipes

2018-11-01 Thread swedebugia
Hi I am a contributor to OSM and have seen how combining OSM and Wikidata/Wikipedia (WP) has been very useful. I got the idea of adding Wikidata-entries to guix package objecs would be fruitful because: It makes it possible to a more useful list of packages e.g. by showing links to WP