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Subject: Re: bug#22437: Fixing package-with-python2
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 21:39:42 +0100
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To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> this looks really good, but I do not understand why we need the
> additional private variable, for instance %python-cython:

Glad you noticed.  :-)

> On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 09:47:15AM +0100, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
>> -(define-public python-cython
>> +(define %python-cython
>>    (package
>>      (name "python-cython")
>>      (version "0.23.4")
>> @@ -2946,8 +2946,13 @@ programming language and the extended Cython prog=
ramming language.  It makes
>>  writing C extensions for Python as easy as Python itself.")
>>      (license asl2.0)))
>>=20=20
>> +(define-public python-cython
>> +  (package
>> +    (inherit %python-cython)
>> +    (properties `((python2-variant . ,(delay python2-cython))))))
>> +
>>  (define-public python2-cython
>> -  (package (inherit (package-with-python2 python-cython))
>> +  (package (inherit (package-with-python2 %python-cython))
>>      (name "python2-cython")
>>      (inputs
>
> If python2-cython inherits from (package-with-python2 python-cython),
> is not the only difference that it keeps the properties field? And
> would this not be harmless, as we are not going to call package-with-pyth=
on2
> again? Or would this create a circular dependency with (delay python2-cyt=
hon)?

So I thought!  In hindsight, I think this is unnecessary.

> (In C or Pascal, this would not be a problem

I can=E2=80=99t wait to see =E2=80=9CPasix=E2=80=9D!  :-)

Ludo=E2=80=99.