Re: Guile 2.0.13

[Efraim Flashner]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 11:11:38PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> 
> More generally, we could try to have a “staging” branch for safe changes
> that involve a rebuild of between ~300 and ~1200 packages, that we’d
> merge more frequently than ‘core-updates’ (I think the Nix folks do
> that).  By “safe” I mean things like ungrafting, minor upgrades and
> improvements; the goal would be to reduce the latency for such changes.
> 
> Things that rebuild more than ~1200 packages would still go to
> ‘core-updates’.
> 
> WDYT?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ludo’.
> 

This sounds like a good idea in general. A quick `guix refresh -l cmake'
showed ~1100 packages, which would make this a good spot for the patch I
tossed into core-updates to also build the ccmake binary.

Currently I think most of us try to keep the number of rebuilds under
~150, so it might be nice to have some sort of guidelines in a separate
post (and in HACKING eventually) so that people don't miss it.

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