Syncthing and Go Build System

Syncthing and Go Build System

[Ian Dunn]

I saw some posts back in December about adding syncthing to guix, but
they stopped in January with no noticeable result.  I'd like to see
syncthing in guix, although I have an idea of how difficult go is to
deal with, so it's understandable that there aren't any go projects in
guix.

Has there been any progress with this?

(If this message goes through twice, I apologize.)

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Ian Dunn

Re: Syncthing and Go Build System

[Leo Famulari]

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On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 03:00:19PM -0400, Ian Dunn wrote:
> I saw some posts back in December about adding syncthing to guix, but
> they stopped in January with no noticeable result.  I'd like to see
> syncthing in guix, although I have an idea of how difficult go is to
> deal with, so it's understandable that there aren't any go projects in
> guix.
> 
> Has there been any progress with this?

Recently I dove in to that prototype of the go-build-system, which does
build a working Syncthing package.

The prototype illustrates what is required for the go-build-system,
although it's not ready to be merged into Guix.

If nobody else does it, I will eventually finish the go-build-system.

However, if somebody would like to try it themselves, I can give advice
and explain what parts of the prototype go-build-system should change
and how. Or, you are welcome to take your own dive :)

By the way, I have an out-of-tree Syncthing package that adapts the
gnu-build-system and uses the dozens of bundled dependencies:

https://github.com/lfam/guix/commits/contrib-syncthing

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