On +2020-07-13 12:27:39 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > > > Ludovic Courtès writes: > > > >> This suggests that the ‘news.scm’ file of your channel is being picked > >> up and evaluated as if it were a module, which it’s not. > >> > >> The solution is to rename it to, say, ‘news.txt’, or to move the actual > >> modules to a sub-directory and specify that in ‘.guix-channel’ (info > >> "(guix) Channels"). > > > > Thanks for the hint, this works indeed! > > > > 1. Is there anything we can do to catch this error and output a more > > intelligible error message? > > I don’t think so: Guile is just doing its job and picking up .scm > files. > You are not saying that a file extension is used as hard type data when "Guile is just doing its job ..." are you?? (unless the producer of the filename is contracted to guarantee the extension semantics in guile's environment at the run-time in question ... but where is such policy documented, if so? (I don't mean looking for .go files newer than corresponding .scm, etc)) > > 2. I suggest we document this pitfall in the documentation. > > Yup, makes sense; would you like to send a patch? > > Thanks, > Ludo’. > > > -- Regards, Bengt Richter