Re: Phases and snippets no longer returning a Boolean

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi Ludo,

On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 00:17:41 +0100
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> With these changes, the return value of origin snippets and build phases
> is now ignored.

Good riddance :)

No, seriously, good change.

> I only removed trailing #t in a couple of files unlikely to result in
> merge conflicts down the road, as Marius rightfully suggested on IRC.

I agree that we shouldn't graciously remove "#t"s in existing packages too
much.  It can just be done slowly as we touch each package anyway.

Since returning #f was effectively broken anyway for a year now (it wouldn't
cancel the build) I doubt we have any legitimate places in build phases where
it legitimately wants to cancel the build and thus returns #f, because that
wouldn't have worked anyway.

But the origin snippets, I'm not sure.  I guess those are lower risk anyway
since if the origin snippet doesn't like something, the result probably
doesn't have all the files anyway--cancelled or not.

Thanks for this change!

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