[bug#49090] [PATCH] gnu: Add blastem.

[Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>]

Am Freitag, den 18.06.2021, 20:39 +0200 schrieb Xinglu Chen:
> On Fri, Jun 18 2021, Leo Prikler wrote:
> 
> > +(define-public blastem
> > +  (package
> > +    (name "blastem")
> > +    (version "0.6.2")
> > +    (source (origin
> > +              (method hg-fetch)
> > +              (uri (hg-reference
> > +                    (url "https://www.retrodev.com/repos/blastem")
> > +                    (changeset (string-append "v" version))))
> > +              (file-name (string-append name "-" version "-
> > checkout"))
> 
> Nit: (guix hg-download) provides a ‘hg-file-name’ procedure, so you
> can just use (hg-file-name name version).
Good to know, I simply used the hg-reference... expansion from
etc/snippets, so that should probably be updated.
> 
> > +              (sha256
> > +               (base32
> > +                "08ycfisivh9rb9vmijlrpdryaw8spd81ck48960p15cnf8h25
> > 35q"))
> > +              (modules '((guix build utils)))
> > +              (snippet
> > +               '(begin
> > +                  ;; TODO: Separately package and unbundle nuklear
> > +                  (delete-file-recursively "zlib")))))
> 
> Why is the zlib directory removed?  Or perhaps, why do they bundle
> their own Zlib?
The have their own PNG implementation, which appears different from
libpng.  So zlib exists as a dependency of that, but it's also
#included elsewhere.