Re: Help packaging R Quarto Cli

[Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net>]

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Sébastien,
>
> On lun., 24 oct. 2022 at 13:43, Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq
> <sebastien.rey-coyrehourcq@univ-rouen.fr> wrote:
>
>> I’m trying to package Quarto Cli (
>> <https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli> ), used in combination with
>> Pandoc to publish -reproducible- scientific document : website, blog,
>> etc.
>
> Well, after a quick look I think it is not easy to package because it is
> TypeScript and the story between JavaScript and Guix is not really
> smooth. :-)
>
>
>> I first think this is a classic gnu build : ./configure && make &&
>> make install BUT, there is a problem because the ./configure script
>> bootstrap “Deno” during the run of configure.sh.
>
> Assuming “Deno“ (a modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript written
> in Rust) is packaged by Guix, the build system for packaging Quarto
> would not clear to me.
>
>
>> Because this download and compilation of Deno occur during
>> ./configure.sh running, guix cannot patch the  #!/bin/bash path, so
>> ./configure failed. Deno seems also not packaged into guix.
>>
>> Do you have an idea to resolve this ? Perhaps we could try all
>> together to do this.
>
> Hum, maybe package deno. ;-)  Well, 
>
>     guix import crate deno -r
>
> is a starting point.  But Deno, neither Quarto, are easy to package for
> Guix.
>
>
> Cheers,
> simon

There is a channel for free software that is not easily bootstrappable
that this might be suitable for:
https://github.com/guix-science/guix-science
That is where RStudio is packaged for example.