Re: Unofficial channel 'whispers' with services and packages

[Runciter via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hello Runciter,
>
> Lots of interesting things in there!
>
> If I could have a wish list of things to integrate in Guix proper, it
> would be this:
>
>> * dictd: the original programs for the DICT protocol. Includes the dict
>>   client and dictd server, which dico and dicod know how to
>>   emulate. Also includes the dictfmt utility, which is useful to express
>>   DICT dictionaries from human-written sources or other dictionary
>>   formats, for which GNU dico has no equivalent to my knowledge. I'm
>>   just the packager not an author.
>>
>> * freedict-tools: I packaged helper tools to compile the freedict
>>   multilingual dictionaries. I'm just the packager not an author.
>>
>> * freedict-dictionaries: package containing a subset of the
>>   freedict-dictionaries, intended for a local installation on a Guix
>>   system. I think the subset which I packaged corresponds exactly to the
>>   Freedict bilingual dictionaries which are human-written. The Freedict
>>   project also has a system which copulates 2 bilingual dictionaries
>>   sharing a common language into a third new automatically generated
>>   bilingual dictionary, I don't think my package outputs any of the many
>>   dictionaries which are expressed by this system. I'm just the packager
>>   not an author.
>
> :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

Hello Ludo,

Very well, I'll be glad to contribute those 3 packages.

I'm frequently busy and away from my main computer these days, I'll be
able to work conveniently with the Guix source-tree on Sunday, and then
should be able to submit a patch or three next week.

As a first step, I'll just submit a patch or a series with only the packages.

As a second step, it might be helpful to make a short addition to the
relevant section of the info manual, and/or to export working default
bindings from the (gnu services dict) module, for ease of configuration.

Regards,
Runciter