Re: [PATCH 1/3] gnu: Add utfcpp.

[Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>]

Alex Griffin (2016-05-08 17:43 +0300) wrote:

> On Sun, May 8, 2016, at 03:13 AM, Alex Kost wrote:
>> I suggest (gnu packages textutils); I see 'utf8proc' is placed there.  I
>> think this is also a suitable module for 'libunistring' (currently it is
>> placed in its own file), but it's a separate question.
>
> Okay. I had assumed textutils was for command line utilities, but if
> that's where utf8proc goes then utfcpp seems to fit there too.

Note that I'm not an expert in finding the most suitable module.  I
often have the same problem when I make a package.  But in this case, I
think (gnu packages textutils) is OK.

>> Not a big thing but we indent '#:use-module' by 2 spaces.  Out of
>> curiosity: what editor do you use?
>
> I use Emacs, the bad indenting is just from moving the package out of
> another file with incorrect indentation (finance.scm).

Ah, OK, it happens, we have many not perfect indentations here and
there, sorry :-)

>> I don't know whether we have an idiomatic way to convert "2.3.4" into
>> "2_3_4", but I would just use a tarball from github:
>
> The project was just migrated to GitHub and hasn't had a new release
> since then, so I'm using the sourceforge zip file because that's what
> other projects have downloaded and used. Also I try to avoid the
> automatically-generated GitHub archives because they're prone to change
> hashes (although I see I forgot about that in the ledger package.)

This is doubtful; do you have any proof?  We use a lot of tarballs from
github and AFAIK we have never seen any hash changes.  These tarballs
are just tagged snapshots of the git repos, so the only way I see they
can be changed is when the upstream pushes a tag, then deletes it, and
recreates it (probably after some commit history rewriting and force
pushing).

And I don't think that sourceforge is more trustable than github.

To be clear: I don't insist on using the tarball from github; zip-file
from sourceforge is fine for me, I just said what I would do.

-- 
Alex