unofficial mirror of guix-devel@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to keep biber working
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 10:04:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftjl8aut.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87blu9kcnk.fsf@elephly.net>

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 586 bytes --]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> This does not contradict what I wrote.  *Building* the packages differs
> from just copying the generated files to their expected locations.  I
> doubt Nix actually generates all these files from source.

Indeed.  We discussed this some time back: we can come up with a build
system / importer that tries to generate the file the best it can, and
if it fails to produce the expected output, we can fallback on copying
the SVN files.  Not ideal, but better than what we have now ;)

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

[-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 487 bytes --]

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-22  8:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-21 14:09 How to keep biber working Jelle Licht
2019-10-21 15:11 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-10-21 15:44   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-21 17:03     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-10-21 17:30       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-21 19:04         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-10-21 19:08           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-21 21:32             ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-10-22  8:04               ` Pierre Neidhardt [this message]
2019-10-22  9:24                 ` Efraim Flashner
2019-10-22  9:27                   ` Pierre Neidhardt

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://guix.gnu.org/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=87ftjl8aut.fsf@ambrevar.xyz \
    --to=mail@ambrevar.xyz \
    --cc=guix-devel@gnu.org \
    --cc=rekado@elephly.net \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).