Re: Display diffs between generations.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Benz Schenk <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 11:37:00 +0200
> Roel Janssen <address@hidden> wrote:

[...]

>> The attached patch implements this behavior.  However, because I use
>> @code{previous-generation-number} to determine which generation to diff
>> with, the following will not provide a diff as expected:
>> 
>>   guix package --list-generations=42,41,40
>> 
>> Any ideas on how to fix this?  Otherwise I'll give it another go over
>> the weekend.
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> Roel Janssen
>
> I adapted your patch to hopefully implement the desired behaviour, but
> it might need some cleaning up as I'm just getting started learning
> scheme.

>From what I can see that Benz’ patch does indeed work as expected (but
really, the example above is a corner case that we shouldn’t worry too
much about.)

Roel, if that’s fine with you, please commit with proper commit log and
acknowledgment.

Thanks to both of you.  :-)

Ludo’.