bug#42385: guile-based jupyter kernels mix guile3 and guile2.2

[Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357@gmail.com>]

On 7/20/20 3:22 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Jesse,
>
> Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> jupyter-guile-kernel and guix-jupyter mix guile3 and guile2.2.
>>
>> - jupyter-guile-kernel only has one of its dependencies in
>> GUILE_LOAD_PATH, so it doesn't build.
>>
>> - guix-jupyter builds successfully, but searches in the wrong
>> directory for guix-jupyter-kernel.scm.
>>
>> jupyter-guile-kernel requires guile-json1 which has not been packaged
>> for guile3, and is still built with guile2.2. IINM the
>> jupyter-guile-kernel repository has been updated to build with guile3,
>> so it might be worth updating. Unfortunately, there are no releases in
>> its github repository. I expect guix-jupyter will be much easier to
>> fix.
>> I have a series of patches coming soon that fix both named issues.
> Good catch!  Did you eventually manage to complete your work?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.


The only reason I have not yet sent these patches (and others I have 
ready to send) is I haven't found the time to make the patches 
acceptable (lint, format commit messages, etc.). I will have time to do 
that tomorrow, so expect patches by July 22.