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Re: using Cuirass to track a guix packages' git


From: Mathieu Lirzin
Subject: Re: using Cuirass to track a guix packages' git
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:59:13 +0200
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:

> Mathieu Lirzin writes:
>
>> David Craven <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> I think the web interface and the json API are two different
>>> "projects".
>>
>> Agreed.
>
> Oh!  Then why choose json (poor-man's-sexps?) over sexps?  I'm mostly
> just using sexps with read and write, and pipe through json translators
> when crossing the border to the javascript realm.

AIUI JSON usage is not limited to JavaScript since almost every
programming language has a parser for it.  IMO, this is its main
advantage which overcomes its technical limitations.

However if using both S-EXP and JSON is possible without adding
complexity we could provide them both throught HTTP.

-- 
Mathieu Lirzin



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