On updating anki to latest Qt version

[Divya Ranjan <divya@subvertising.org>]

Hello Robert and others,

Checking the logs, I found that you added Anki in Feb (8534c94). As a regular user of anki, I found that the one provided by Guix is simply too old, almost 5 years old. The index of the downloads doesn’t even show 2.1.16. The comment in /gnu/packages/education.scm shows:

#+begin_src scheme
(define-public anki
  (package
    (name "anki")
    ;; Later versions have dependencies on npm packages not yet in Guix.
    (version "2.1.16")
    (source ...))
#+end_src

I haven’t checked all the versions, but the latest version of Anki _does not_ seem to have any npm dependencies. The official development instructions [0] do not mention anything about npm, and the Linux Specific notes [1] only mention that node binary is a prerequisite, which seems to be already packaged in guix.

Other guides [2] do not seem to need any npm either, I’ve known that it’s been notoriously difficult to package anki into distros [3,4], but I _believe_ (I’m not sure), things have changed since they switched from Bazel back to Ninja build system?

I’d like some work on this, I want to rely on flatpak as less I can.

[0]: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/blob/main/docs/development.md
[1]: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/blob/main/docs/linux.md
[2]: https://chrislongros.com/2023/03/23/how-to-build-anki-from-source-in-linux/
[3]: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/issues/1378
[4]: https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/need-support-for-building-packaging/41892/5

Regards,
-- 
Divya Ranjan,
Philosophy, Mathematics, Libre Software.