Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add soil.

[David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>]

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:

> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 05:52:44PM -0400, David Thompson wrote:
>> +(define-public soil
>
> First a provocative question: The project has been created in 2007 and
> apparently abandoned in 2008. Is it still worth packaging, or would it
> not be preferable to look for a suitable replacement?

I am packaging it because it's a dependency for at least one big
project.  The example I know of is Dolphin, a video game console
emulator.

>> +              ;; No versioned archive available.
>> +              (uri "http://www.lonesock.net/files/soil.zip")
>
> Normally, this would not work: As soon as a new version comes out, we would
> lose the old one, except for a copy on hydra that might be garbage collected.
> So I think it would be preferable to use an svn checkout.
>
> In this particular case, since there are no new releases, the argument
> becomes moot...

Yeah, dunno what to do here.  I could use the SVN checkout, but that
really sucks.

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