Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add sra-tools.

[Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

>> I had to remove libxml2 from the inputs to sra-tools, resulting in a
>> failure to build a couple of loader tools.  The reason for this is that
>> I encountered linker problems like these:
>
> It looks like an upstream bug?  And why is it being statically-linked
> anyway?  It would be nice if they would default to dynamic linking,
> which is more efficient in terms of memory use, etc.

Indeed.  I will file a bug report upstream.

>> +    (synopsis "API for accessing Next Generation Sequencing data")
>
> I would put quotes around “Next Generation”.  :-)

"Next-generation sequencing" is an actual term (although it sounds a
little silly).  It refers to high-throughput sequencing technology.

See http://www.nature.com/subjects/next-generation-sequencing

>> +    (synopsis "Java bindings for NGS SDK")
>> +    (description
>> +     (string-append (package-description ngs-sdk)
>> +                    "\n\nThis package contains the Java bindings."))))
>
> ‘description’ should be a string literal, otherwise xgettext won’t catch
> it, thereby preventing i18n.
>
> What I would do is just keep ‘description’ unchanged, or rewrite it.
> Keeping it unchanged is OK here since the synopsis makes it clear that
> these are Java bindings.

Okay, I'll just keep the inherited description then.  I should note that
"python-wrapper" in python.scm also does not use a string literal.

~~ Ricardo