[bug#63985] [PATCH v3 00/11] Service subsystem improvements

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> skribis:

> I'm not sure whether serializer options really add much value.  You can
> use functional programming to define serializers for you and pass those
> options in a cleaner way IMHO.  The documentation should be updated as
> the changes are made.  As for the switch to SRFI 171, I'm not sure
> whether backwards compatibility with Guile 2.2 is a requirement
> somewhere; if it isn't, that change is probably fine.

Backward compatibility with 2.2 is not required in the service code.

(The places where compatibility with 2.2 or even 2.0 may be required are
some of the (guix build …) modules and core (guix …) modules, the latter
so that a very old Guix can still pull the new one.)

Ludo’.