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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

[...]

>> 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
>>
>> 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).

Nice.  That’s only the search page though, and not individual package
pages, right?

> 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.

Sounds like a plan!

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

Yes, that would be nice.  It now takes Haunt ages to generate all these
pages, we have to do something about it.  :-)

So, if anyone feels like picking it up but needs guidance, let us know!

Thanks,
Ludo’.