Re: Medium-term road map

[Christopher Baines]

zimoun <address@hidden> writes:

> 2. Search on all the packages included in Guix since the Big Bang.
>
> It is difficult to find the Guix commit where one package goes in and
> the commit where it goes out. The Guix Data Service (GDS) helps a lot
> for that! But AFAIK, it is not possible from the CLI and I do not find
> it handy when I need it (just because I need to open a webbrowser,
> etc.).
>
> IMHO, there is 3 questions:
>  - how to build such full historical index locally? Even if it is expensive
>  - how to fetch it from GDS? Or any other substitue?

It's far from "the Big Bang", but the data.guix.gnu.org instance of the
Guix Data Service has data going back to the start of 2019, with some
big gaps that are still being filled in. Once that's happened, it'll be
feasible to start looking at going further back.

On your point about fetching data, the Guix Data Service can return data
in JSON, and it's been mentioned that there could be something like the
(guix ci) module, but to access the Guix Data Service. Once the data is
available, it would at least be feasible to use that for a command line
interface.

Chris

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