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From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauermann@kolabnow.com>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Packages for old Emacs versions
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2022 22:20:12 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czix6rqq.fsf@kolabnow.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y21n3x99.fsf@posteo.net>


Hello Philip,

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> reading [0], I would like to ask if there is any interest in
> up-streaming the work I have been doing to build old versions of Emacs
> using Guix (the main use-case is to help with testing Emacs packages on
> various versions)[1]?

This is a very interesting use of Guix!

> My fear is that with further upstream development,
> there might be conflicts between the packages I inherit from (emacs,
> emacs-no-x, emacs-minimal) and the packages I have definined in [1].
> An easy fix might be to not rely on the upstream package definitions,
> but I am not certain if there are any down-sides I haven't considered.
>
> Of course, if the Guix project isn't interested in providing old
> versions of packages, then I will continue look into maintaining my own
> channel.

I don’t have much experience with the Guix projects and its preferences
and practices, so I can’t tell if it would be interested or not,
unfortunately. I just wanted to mention that if not, another upstreaming
option could be the Guix-Past channel:

https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/guix-past

-- 
Thanks
Thiago


  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-08  3:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-06 15:40 Packages for old Emacs versions Philip Kaludercic
2022-03-08  1:20 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann [this message]
2022-03-13 20:53   ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-03-15  8:08     ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-03-16 16:08       ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-03-08 12:05 ` zimoun

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