From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add python-pypump Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 14:02:58 -0400 Message-ID: <20160816180258.GC1260@jasmine> References: <20160812183129.0f76b28a@openmailbox.org> <20160813125700.GA12089@jasmine> <20160813123242.6162b166@openmailbox.org> <20160813230714.GA22289@jasmine> <20160814160711.5c87d31e@openmailbox.org> <20160815184128.GA11573@jasmine> <20160816002927.055267bb@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]:37316) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZihl-0000RT-M8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2016 14:03:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZihg-00074M-NN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2016 14:03:13 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:54802) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZihf-000739-HG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2016 14:03:08 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160816002927.055267bb@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" To: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:29:27AM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > > I think we should package the latest version, at least. > > > > Maybe we could also package 0.6 with a package 'python-pypump-0.6' that > > inherits from python-pypump. Or, you could keep that inherited > > python-pypump-0.6 in a private package repo, and use GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH. > > It depends on whether pypump-0.6 is a major API-incompatible version > that is still required by other Free Software packages in the wild on > the internet. If so, it makes sense to carry it too. Otherwise not. That would be a good reason to keep it. But so far, I haven't seen any patches that would use it :)