From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Python2-only packages (shedskin) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:57:55 -0400 Message-ID: <20160329205755.GA21461@jasmine> References: <20160329222408.70a70ae2@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42224) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1al0i6-0003sy-FO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:57:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1al0i3-0000Ms-4G for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:57:58 -0400 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:37336) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1al0i3-0000Mn-18 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:57:55 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160329222408.70a70ae2@scratchpost.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 10:24:08PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to package shedskin, a Python 2 native (to C++) compiler. > > It only supports python2 in upstream. > > If I package it the usual way (like other Python packages in Guix), python2-shedskin works fine, however, python-shedskin won't and basically shouldn't be there. > > How to best proceed? In the arguments section, you will need to use '#:python ,python-2'. See the package definition of letsencrypt for an example.