Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add libBigWig.

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 05:21:47PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Hi Guix,
> 
> the description is a little short.  Basically, this is a cleaner
> reimplementation of a popular tool/library that is released under a
> non-commercial license.  There is little more I can say about it and the
> original description just references that other tool.
> 
> Any ideas how to improve this?

If you think it will be clear to the intended audience, I'd say it's
fine.

If "Kent's library" is well-known in the field, would it make sense to
refer to it?

> +         (add-before 'install 'create-target-dirs
> +           (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
> +             (let ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out")))
> +               (mkdir-p (string-append out "/lib"))
> +               (mkdir-p (string-append out "/include"))
> +               #t))))))

Does it make sense to upstream this? I understand if it's not worth your
time...