From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Thompson Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add soil. Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 11:35:13 -0400 Message-ID: <87618g6zbi.fsf@fsf.org> References: <87r3r68slv.fsf@fsf.org> <20150428144600.GA4503@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52896) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yn7Xd-0001Ef-JQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 11:35:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yn7XX-000719-SK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 11:35:21 -0400 Received: from mail.fsf.org ([208.118.235.13]:39122) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yn7XX-000715-O7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 11:35:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150428144600.GA4503@debian> 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: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Andreas Enge 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. -- David Thompson Web Developer - Free Software Foundation - http://fsf.org GPG Key: 0FF1D807 Support the FSF: https://fsf.org/donate