Re: Having a package browser on guix.gnu.org

[Luis Felipe]

On Sunday, January 9th, 2022 at 7:53 PM, Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> 
wrote:

> Ludovic Courtès ludo@gnu.org writes:
> 

> > Luis Felipe luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com skribis:
> > 

> > > But I wonder if it is possible now to make the packages part use any of 
> > > the Postgres databases that already exist and allow traditional search 
> > > without JavaScript...
> > 

> > Former Outreachy intern Danjela Lura, together with Chris Baines, had
> > 

> > started developing a JS-free package browsing interface:
> > 

> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-07/msg00050.html

I completely  forgot about this :( Thanks for the link.


> > Chris, could you tell us what the status is and what’s missing before we
> > 

> > can use it on the web site?
> 

> I think it's unchanged for a while now, I've attached what's probably
> 

> the latest source code (there's not much to it).
> 

> I think the remaining work is to settle on a direction in terms of the
> 

> design and how to integrate it in to the website, and then deploy
> 

> something for real. Personally, I'm in favour of a packages.guix.gnu.org
> 

> domain which hosts the search page plus the package pages, and stopping
> 

> generating package pages with haunt.

+1


> I don't really have the time to try and move this forward myself, but I
> 

> can try and support others.

I want to help. I'll check the source and start asking questions.

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