Hi, I was able to do basic build and install of XChat IRC Client

Hi, I was able to do basic build and install of XChat IRC Client

[Veera]

Hi,

I have successfully done a basic build and install of XChat IRC Client.
It still has some bad hacks for building.

I had chat about this in #Guix IRC. brendyyn, drakonis, lfam.

They objected with XChat inclusion in Guix.

I told that XChat is listed in Libreplanet Guix:Group Wishlist which
Gabor Boskovits gave me the link.

And brendyyn even edited that page to remove XChat listing.

Please can you tell me what to do?
Any other small GUI project lead please.

Thanks,
R Veera Kumar
India
[Outreachy Applicant]

Re: Hi, I was able to do basic build and install of XChat IRC Client

[sirgazil]

 ---- On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 23:47:06 -0500 Veera <vkor@vkten.in> wrote ----
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I have successfully done a basic build and install of XChat IRC Client.
 > It still has some bad hacks for building.
 > 
 > I had chat about this in #Guix IRC. brendyyn, drakonis, lfam.
 > 
 > They objected with XChat inclusion in Guix.
 > 
 > I told that XChat is listed in Libreplanet Guix:Group Wishlist which
 > Gabor Boskovits gave me the link.
 > 
 > And brendyyn even edited that page to remove XChat listing.
 > 
 > Please can you tell me what to do?
 > Any other small GUI project lead please.

Maybe an RSS/Atom feed reader (e.g. Liferea)? Last time I checked, Guix only had readers for Emacs and terminal.

Re: Hi, I was able to do basic build and install of XChat IRC Client

[LaFreniere, Joseph]

Veera <vkor@vkten.in> writes:

> I have successfully done a basic build and install of XChat IRC 
> Client.

From what I can tell [0], the latest commit to XChat was in 2011. 
Is this the software you packaged, or did you perhaps intend to 
refer to HexChat [1], a maintained fork?

> I had chat about this in #Guix IRC. brendyyn, drakonis, lfam.
>
> They objected with XChat inclusion in Guix.
> …
> Please can you tell me what to do?

Did the participants in #Guix who objected to including XChat in 
Guix provide any reasons for their objections?  Understanding what 
specifically they disliked about your recipe or the upstream 
software might provide some guidance for next steps.

[0] http://xchat.org/files/?C=M;O=D
[1] https://hexchat.github.io/

--
Joseph LaFreniere

Re: Hi, I was able to do basic build and install of XChat IRC Client

[R Veera Kumar]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 10:09:27PM -0500, LaFreniere, Joseph wrote:
> 
> Veera <vkor@vkten.in> writes:
> 
> > I have successfully done a basic build and install of XChat IRC Client.
> 
> From what I can tell [0], the latest commit to XChat was in 2011. Is this
> the software you packaged, or did you perhaps intend to refer to HexChat
> [1], a maintained fork?
> 
> > I had chat about this in #Guix IRC. brendyyn, drakonis, lfam.
> > 
> > They objected with XChat inclusion in Guix.
> > …
> > Please can you tell me what to do?
> 
> Did the participants in #Guix who objected to including XChat in Guix
> provide any reasons for their objections?  Understanding what specifically
> they disliked about your recipe or the upstream software might provide some
> guidance for next steps.
> 

Please see the patch I posted to guix-patches@gnu.org for
XChat bug no: 40208 which Gabor Boskovits told me to do.
So that it gets WONTFIX status.

They objected for it being old and unmaintained and has bugs in them.
The hexchat developer objected for it's inclusion in Debian and wanted
it to be removed. He said found new bugs in hexchat or irc in general
which were probably not fixed in this unmaintained software. Though he
did not listed them in xchat. While the current Debian maintainer is
affirmative of still including it saying the bugs which gets found are
fixed and no need to remove it from Debian. Sorry I do not have the
links for those pages as I was using built xchat and it's log got lost.
drakonis gave the links. Hexchat developer in reddit post. Perhaps
XChat and HexChat: When distributions get it wrong.
Debian Bug Reports: 891982 and 892085

R Veera Kumar
[Outreachy Contrib]

> [0] http://xchat.org/files/?C=M;O=D
> [1] https://hexchat.github.io/
> 
> --
> Joseph LaFreniere
>