Re: Data Services: use cases

[zimoun]

Hi Chris,

On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 at 19:17, Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> wrote:

>>  - list all the versions available (since Dec. 2019 I guess)
>>  - know which build and which not
>>  - easily find the commit for “guix time-machine”

[...]

> Maybe there could be a packages.guix.gnu.org service which pulls
> together information about packages to meet the common needs that users
> of Guix have. Things like:
>
>  - Searching for packages by name
>  - Looking at version availability
>  - Looking at build success/substitute availability

I do not know if the comparison makes sense: To me, the Data Service is
more-or-less the equivalent of:

   https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/guix

and what you are suggesting would be the equivalent of:

   https://packages.debian.org/experimental/guix

Are we on the same wavelength?  In other words, the Data Service is
devoted to Guix dev. and Package Service to Guix user.

In this picture, the usage that I described fits to the Package Service,
right?


Cheers,
simon