Re: Guix Data Service - September update

[Alex Sassmannshausen]

Christopher Baines <address@hidden> writes:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> That would be great.  In the end, it seems to be that there are quite a
>> few services we could build around the Data Service.  I’m not sure how
>> they should interact.
>>
>> For instance, Mumi could talk to data.guix.gnu.org over an HTTP API, or
>> should we replicate the database at issues.guix.gnu.org so that Mumi can
>> tap directly into it?
>>
>> Likewise, how should something like hpcguix-web (the package browser at
>> <https://hpc.guix.info/browse>) exploit available data, for instance to
>> show the history of package versions?
>
> So I've got an initial thing working for the version histories now. You
> can construct a URL like [1], which will show a table about the known
> versions of the package (icecat in this case) on the master branch.
>
> 1: http://data.guix.gnu.org/repository/1/branch/master/package/icecat
>
> The same data is available in JSON [2], and that might work for getting
> the data in the hpcguix-web service.
>
> 2: http://data.guix.gnu.org/repository/1/branch/master/package/icecat.json

This is incredibly cool.

Suddenly I understand how useful the Data Service could turn out to be!

Alex