From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add python-pypump Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 18:17:47 -0400 Message-ID: <20160819221747.cpiu4g2l24qjmwtx@jasmine> References: <20160812183129.0f76b28a@openmailbox.org> <20160813125700.GA12089@jasmine> <20160813123242.6162b166@openmailbox.org> <20160813230714.GA22289@jasmine> <20160814160711.5c87d31e@openmailbox.org> <20160815184128.GA11573@jasmine> <20160815151757.51f21eed@openmailbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51000) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bas71-0001vr-4U for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 18:18:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bas6u-0003ps-L6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 18:18:02 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:50255) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bas6t-0003nq-EY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 18:17:56 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160815151757.51f21eed@openmailbox.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: Dylan Jeffers Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 03:17:57PM -0700, Dylan Jeffers wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:41:28 -0400 > Leo Famulari wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 04:07:11PM -0700, Dylan Jeffers wrote: > > > > The latest upstream version 0.7. Is there a reason not to use the > > > > latest version in this case? > > > > > > For my immediate purposes, I need pypump 0.6, since thats the > > > version used in my projects. Since the versions are quite > > > different, maybe we include both of them? > > > > 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. > > > > I'd prefer the latter option. I don't think we have a precedent of > > adding old releases, although we do sometimes keep them around for > > compatibility. But I could be mistaken. > > > > What do people think we should do? > > Yes I agree with the second alternative as well. Okay, will you send a patch for it?