From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Feng Shu" Subject: Re: emacs.scm: Suggest add emacs-next or emacs-snapshot Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 19:56:28 +0800 Message-ID: <87d1vei043.fsf@163.com> References: <11cf533a.13b0.150f91df556.Coremail.tumashu@163.com> <87fv0bz8f4.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53614) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZxD9V-0001nP-Pw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 07:08:26 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZxD9R-0006tw-Og for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 07:08:25 -0500 Received: from m12-17.163.com ([220.181.12.17]:47850) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZxD9R-0006tf-Dy for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 07:08:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87fv0bz8f4.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?iso-8859-1\?Q\?Court\=E8s\?\= \=\?iso-8859-1\?Q\?\=22's\?\= message of "Thu, 12 Nov 2015 13:52:47 +0100") 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: guix-devel@gnu.org Cc: Feng Shu ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: > tumashu skribis: > >> Suggest add emacs-next or emacs-snapshot and let guile-emacs inherit it,= The reason is that >> user can use it build emacs from emacs.git conveniently=EF=BC=8C for exa= mple: >> >> guix build emacs-snapshot --with-source=3D./emacs-snapshot-20151111.= tar.gz > > To use --with-source, all you need to do is to rename the tarball to > =E2=80=98emacs-20151111.tar.gz=E2=80=99; after that, you can run: > > guix build emacs --with-source=3Demacs-20151111.tar.gz > > That=E2=80=99s because --with-source expects the tarball name to match the > package name (info "(guix) Invoking guix build"). I don't think it is a flexible way, i like the below: guix build emacs --with-source=3D~/my-own-emacs-dir --override-name=3De= macs --override-version=3D20151111 > > Now, it might make sense to also provide an =E2=80=98emacs-snapshot=E2=80= =99 package, > built from a Git checkout and regularly updated. Would you like to try > that? > > I think the package would simply inherit from =E2=80=98guile-emacs=E2=80= =99 and provide > a different =E2=80=98name=E2=80=99, =E2=80=98version=E2=80=99, and =E2=80= =98source=E2=80=99. > > Thanks, > Ludo=E2=80=99. --=20