From: David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
Subject: Re: New importer for GNU packages
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:42:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egt9pzmu.fsf@izanagi.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9y5iz1e.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Karl recently suggested that we add a semi-automatic tool to facilitate
> the addition of GNU packages, and Andreas rightfully noted that we
> already have most of the infrastructure for ‘guix refresh’ et al.
Cool!
[snip]
> (package
> (name "gforth")
> (version "0.7.3")
> (source
> (origin
> (method url-fetch)
> (uri (string-append
> "mirror://gnu/gforth/gforth-"
> version
> ".tar.gz"))
> (sha256
> (base32
> "f5rpeiz36armepibzeqlcvlkue7kwfuogi3lcm2svrpj6gcufoya"))))
> (build-system gnu-build-system)
> (synopsis "Forth interpreter")
> (description
> "Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANSI Forth
> language. It includes an editing mode for Emacs and an interpreter
> featuring completion and history. A generic virtual machine
> environment, vmgen, is also included.")
> (home-page "htmlxref")
> (license find-by-yourself!))
It's unfortunate that the GNU project doesn't maintain certain metadata
such as the license for each project. It would be very convenient to
have!
--
David Thompson
Web Developer - Free Software Foundation - http://fsf.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-11 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-11 14:37 New importer for GNU packages Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-11 14:42 ` David Thompson [this message]
2014-11-11 16:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-11 22:25 ` Karl Berry
2014-11-21 10:00 ` Andreas Enge
2014-11-21 22:32 ` Karl Berry
2014-11-21 22:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
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