Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: julia: Use unbundled release tarball.

[Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>]

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:

>> +       ;; FIXME: The following inputs are downloaded from upstream to allow us
>> +       ;; to use the lightweight Julia release tarball.  Ideally, these inputs
>> +       ;; would eventually be replaced with proper Guix packages.
>> +       ("rmath-julia"
>> +        ,(origin
>> +           (method url-fetch)
>> +           (uri "https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/Rmath-julia/tarball/v0.1")
>> +           ;;(file-name "rmath-julia-0.1.tar.gz")
>              ^^^
>         did this not like being renamed?

Oops, this was not supposed to be commented.  There was a problem where
the build system complained about the hash of the tarball, and I could
only fix it by *not* overriding the name.  But this shouldn’t have been
part of the commit.  I’ll play with this again to see if it can stay or
needs to go.

>> +           (sha256
>> +            (base32
>> +             "0ai5dhjc43zcvangz123ryxmlbm51s21rg13bllwyn98w67arhb4"))))
>> +       ("suitesparse"
>> +        ,(origin
>> +           (method url-fetch)
>> +           (uri "http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/SuiteSparse/SuiteSparse-4.4.2.tar.gz")
>> +           (sha256
>> +            (base32
>> +             "1dg0qsv07n71nbn9cgcvn73933rgy1jnxw5bfqkwfq3bidk44cqc"))))
>> +       ("objconv"
>> +        ,(origin
>> +           (method url-fetch)
>> +           (uri "http://www.agner.org/optimize/objconv.zip")
>> +           (sha256
>> +            (base32
>> +             "1fi7qa2sd9vb35dvkgripjf0fayzg2qmff215f8agfqfiwd1g8qs"))))
>> +       ("dsfmt"
>> +        ,(origin
>> +           (method url-fetch)
>> +           (uri (string-append
>> +                 "http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/"
>> +                 "SFMT/dSFMT-src-2.2.3.tar.gz"))
>> +           (sha256
>> +            (base32
>> +             "03kaqbjbi6viz0n33dk5jlf6ayxqlsq4804n7kwkndiga9s4hd42"))))
>> +       ("virtualenv"
>
> we actually do have virtualenv packaged. I forgot when but at some point
> they made a massive jump in version numbers.

Yes, I’ve seen that we have it, but it looks like julia doesn’t make it
easy to use our packaged version (and it insists on this old version).
We should fix this eventually, but the goal of this patch was to make
this dependency explicit — before that it would just quietly take the
bundled “virtualenv” in the fat tarball.

~~ Ricardo