Re: [PATCH] gnu: add geos

["Björn Höfling" <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de>]

Thanks for accepting!

I have some comments/questions below.

Björn

On Sat, 21 Jan 2017 14:08:12 +0100
Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> wrote:

> Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de> writes:
> 
> > * gnu/packages/geo.scm (geos): New variable.  
> 
> Thanks for this! I've applied it with some minor changes, described
> below:
> 
> > +(define-public geos
> > +  (package
> > +    (name "geos")
> > +    (version "3.6.1")
> > +    (source (origin
> > +              (method url-fetch)
> > +              (uri (string-append
> > "http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-"
> > +                                  version
> > +                                  ".tar.bz2"))
> > +              (sha256
> > +               (base32
> > +
> > "1icz31kd5sml2kdxhjznvmv33zfr6nig9l0i6bdcz9q9g8x4wbja"))))
> > +    (build-system gnu-build-system)
> > +    (arguments `(#:phases
> > +                 (modify-phases %standard-phases
> > +                   (add-after
> > +                       'unpack 'patch-test-shebangs
> > +                     (lambda _
> > +                       (substitute*
> > '("tests/xmltester/testrunner.sh"
> > +
> > "tests/geostest/testrunner.sh")
> > +                         (("/bin/sh") (which "bash")))  
> 
> Bash behaves differently based on whether it's invoked as 'bash' or
> 'sh', so I changed this to (which "sh") to be safe.

I thought I found that sh-> "bash" substitution quite often, for example here in nginx:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/web.scm#n148



> 
> > +                       #t)))))
> > +    (inputs
> > +     `(("glib" ,glib)))
> > +    (home-page "https://geos.osgeo.org/")
> > +    (synopsis "Geometry Engine - Open Source")  
> 
> We try to avoid terms like "open source" or "free software" since it's
> implied in the context of Guix.

OK, maybe that synopsis was a bit short, because "Geometry Engine - Open Source" is just
the long name of GEOS.

> 
> > +    (description
> > +     "GEOS (Geometry Engine - Open Source) is a C++ port of the
> > +Java Topology Suite (JTS).  As such, it aims to contain the
> > complete +functionality of JTS in C++.  This includes all the
> > OpenGIS Simple Features +for SQL spatial predicate functions and
> > spatial operators, +as well as specific JTS enhanced topology
> > functions.")  
> 
> I took inspiration from Debians description of this package and
> tweaked it a little.
> 
> > +    (license license:lgpl2.1)))  
> 
> The files do not mention whether it's 2.1 only or later versions so we
> default to "or later". Also found a few files with other licenses.

I also found no mentioning of "later" or not, so I thought to stick with the
mentioned license version. What makes you use the "or later" version?

> 
> Pushed as 252611c7c4e72577cd0c91a41e10176f37ac318b !