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Re: swh-plugins-lv2: New variable [WIP] v2


From: Mark H Weaver
Subject: Re: swh-plugins-lv2: New variable [WIP] v2
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 23:13:23 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

>> +(define-public swh-plugins-lv2
>> +  (let ((commit "5098e09e255eaed14e0d40ca5e7e6dfcb782d7ea"))
>
> We usually don’t use full commit hashes.  You could probably trim it to
> the first six characters or so.

I would recommend using at least 10 characters, maybe more.  We should
use enough characters to ensure that the commit id remains unique for as
long as this package version remains in use -- keeping in mind that for
purposes of reproducing old experiments, someone might try to build this
package+version several years from now.

      Mark



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