Re: Some utility functions

[Gábor Boskovits]

Hello,

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. jan. 5., Szo, 22:30):
>
> Hi Gábor,
>
> Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > I am not sure if I am duplicating functionality here, and also where
> > these should belong, so I will send them here for discussion.
>
> Thanks for sharing!  As Alex notes, some of these procedures are
> more or less available in (guix build utils):
>
> > (define (rm-recursive dir)
>
> delete-file-recursively
>
> > (define (check-header file header)
>
> file-header-match
>
> > (define (reset-zip-timestamps dir)
> >   "Resets the timestamps of all zip achives under DIR."
> >   (for-each repack-zip
> >           (find-files dir ".*.(zip|jar|diz)$")))
>
> That we don’t have (there’s ‘reset-gzip-timestamp’, with a ‘g’.)
>
> How do we deal with that currently in Java packages?
>

We have a phase defiined in the ant build system code, that does just that.
I was thinking about to moving it to java utils or to a more general
utils module.
where we don't yet have ant build system. I don't know if other ecosystems
would benefit from that or not.

> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

Best regards,
g_bor