Re: [Guix Website] A Search Page for Packages

[Bengt Richter]

Hi Daniela,

On +2020-07-08 20:49:35 +0200, Daniela Lura wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> This is Danjela, the Outreachy intern at the Guix Data Service.
> 
> Taking into consideration the suggestion made in this thread:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-05/msg00096.html, my
> mentor, Christopher Baines suggested me to write a script that serves a
> search page for packages using the search functionality within the Guix
> Data Service,
> https://data.guix.gnu.org/repository/1/branch/master/latest-processed-revision/packages?search_query=git&field=version&field=synopsis&after_name=&limit_results=100
> .
> 
> The prototype page can be accessed through a test version of the Guix
> website that Chris deployed:
> http://guix-website-test.cbaines.net/packages/search
>

This looks useful :)

I did notice that clicking firefox-esr's[1] reader-view button (or equivalently
hitting Ctl-Alt-r [yes, lower case]) niether shows the latest search result
(I searched for -"sha" (BTW, my convention: prefixed '-' on double-quoted 
string means
without the quotes, ok?)).

[1] Mozilla Firefox 68.10.0esr per -"firefox --version"

It seemed to go back to a locked-in one-time-memoized value that persists
through other searches and even exiting the browser and restarting it,
and even after hitting its reload button.

All it keeps showing in reader mode is
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
guix-website-test.cbaines.net
Packages
1 minute
ghc-cryptohash-sha1 0.11.100.1

This Haskell package provides an incremental and one-pass, pure API to the 
SHA-1 hash algorithm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1), including HMAC 
support (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAC), with performance close to the 
fastest implementations available in other languages. The implementation is 
made…
ghc-cryptohash-sha256 0.11.101.0

This Haskell package provides an incremental and one-pass, pure API to the 
SHA-256 cryptographic hash algorithm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2), 
with performance close to the fastest implementations available in other 
languages. The implementation is made in C…
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
which I think is the result of my first search of all -- which was for
-"sha256" (sans quotes again, no more explaining that :).

Actually, on the reader page, there is visually a blank line above the
-"ghc-cryptohash-sha256 0.11.101.0" line in the snip above, though I don't 
think that's
relevant to not seeing a refreshed reader view of new search results -- unless
it's actually a wl-copy/paste bug somehow.

The latter has a man page, but no --version option, though debian's -"dpgk -l 
'wl-*'"
found it [Version: 1.0.0-1], in case it plays any role.

On debian, -"apt show wl-clipboard" should tell the package details for you if 
needed.
In my case it's re-packaged for pureos, so it'd be good to test reader view  on 
other browsers and distributions.

Anyway, raingloom got me thinking more about reader mode, and I think he
would appreciate attention to that. I'll try to Cc: him :)

> I'd like to know if you find the page useful so that I can hopefully start
> working on incorporating the search functionality into this page:
> https://guix.gnu.org/packages/.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Danjela

HTH
-- 
Regards,
Bengt Richter