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Re: Scripting guix in guile
From: |
Jesse Gibbons |
Subject: |
Re: Scripting guix in guile |
Date: |
Sat, 31 Aug 2019 11:52:44 -0600 |
On Sat, 2019-08-31 at 11:38 -0600, Jesse Gibbons wrote:
> On Sat, 2019-08-31 at 19:03 +0200, Konrad Hinsen wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'd like to write Guile scripts that inspect Guix, for example
> > analyze
> > the packages is my profile. That turned out to be a lot more
> > difficult
> > than I expected, and in fact I haven't found a satisfying general
> > solution yet, meaning a script that I could publish in such a way
> > that
> > any Guix user could download and run it without modification.
> >
> > The problems I see are
> >
> > 1. What to put into the #! line to locate Guile.
>
> I don't think you need a shebang to script guile.
Turns out you do.
> If you do, you could always make a guix package for the scripts, and
> that will fix everything in the patch-shebangs phase.
If you package it for guix you can use it to develop your scripts as
well.
> > 2. How to construct the load path to make sure it includes
> > Guix as installed under $HOME/.config/guix/current
>
> I think the default GUILE_LOAD_PATH includes guix. Here's the
> contents
> of mine:
> ~$ ls $GUILE_LOAD_PATH
> bytestructures git.scm gnutls guix.scm json.scm shepherd.scm
> gcrypt gnu gnutls.scm ice-9/ mcron sqlite3.scm
> git gnu.scm guix json shepherd ssh
>
> gnu/, gnu.scm, guix/, and guix.scm are all guix, and guix is not part
> of my current profile. Note also most of these are prerequisites for
> guix.
> >
> > I wonder if could somehow hijack 'guix repl', which solves these
> > problems for a REPL but not for scripts.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Konrad
> >
>
> -You're writing tools for a package manager... try packaging those
> tools for the package manager. It will take care of them like it
> takes
> care of everything else.
> --You can wrap the executables with the environment variables you
> need
> so the executable scripts are callable from the default PATH. See
> what
> guix does with guile, mcron, and shepherd, which are mostly guile
> scripts with a little bit of native code.